Arsenal: Mikel Arteta says Gunners will give up the fight for the Premier League ‘title’ over my dead body ‘with Liverpool 11 points Clean | Football news
Mikel Arthte hit a defiant tone after a harmful weekend in the Premier League title, saying that Arsenal would give up the fight “over my dead body”.
Gunners missed the opportunity to close the gap on Liverpool on Saturday, Losing to West Hamago Reds Arne slot beat Manchester City The next day, 11 points passed at the top of the table.
Many commentators acknowledged the title of Liverpool after their victory – but Arthte is not so in the mood to leave the race.
“It was incredibly satisfactory to work every day with players and staff to try to overcome certain situations,” he said against the Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.
“If someone tells you at the beginning of the season that by this point you played five times with a red card with more than half an hour in each game and lost this amount of players [to injury]What is the bet you are in the middle of the table at least from the Champions League.
“But this is not a situation and tells you about the resistance and ambition that the team has. It is probably one of my proud moments in that sense. When you are there, you want more.
“And through my dead body we will stop thinking and put everything we can to improve.”
Asked if he believed Arsenal could still win in the Premier League, Artete replied, “If we can’t, maybe I would go home.
“Mathematically, it is possible, you are there and you have to play every game. Three days ago we could close the gap, and you are one and a half games away, but that doesn’t matter. We have to continue to go.
“If you want to win the Premier League, you have to do something special. If you want to win it with the circumstances we have, you probably have to do something that no one else has done in the Premier League history.”
Going to play against West Ham, Arsenal was undefeated in the Premier League 15 games. Despite the failure against the hammer, Artete wanted to emphasize that his side in severe circumstances was answered by Liverpool during this period.
He said: “In the previous 15 games, we won 10 and pulled out five, exactly the same as Liverpool with the same goal -difference, which is plus 23.
“We were extremely consistent for the last three and a half months, given everything we went through and created that momentum.
“There was a weekend where we have to go again, no different from the previous 15 and we got a defeat. They won, so when you try to build a momentum, and we put so much in the circumstances with the circumstances we had it, it was very difficult to take .
“The reality is that there is so many game games that you have to go back to it. We have levels and consistency and hunger to start again and we will do it on Wednesday.”
Merson: Now I care about Arsenal
After the defeat of Arsenal of West Ham, former midfielder Gunner Paul Merson He insisted that the result ended their hope that he would beat Liverpool at the title.
“[The title race is over] a million percent, “he said Football on Saturday. “Arsenal can’t catch Liverpool. They don’t have ahead. They have a young 17-year-old in (Ethan) Nwaner who got a bright future, but today he has fought.
“(Leandro) Trossard is a little player in my opinion. There is absolutely no way that Arsenal can win the league.
“I saw today enough to know that they will fight until the end of the season. They have 12 games left and they will get a good half.
“Suddenly PSV is a game in the Champions League head or tails. They have nothing in advance. They are without teeth. Center -in -the -way is such an art, you can’t just throw someone up.
Neville: Arsenal left short after not signed by anyone
Gary Neville He said Arsenal left briefly in the Premier League title after not signing anyone in the winter transition window.
Asked if the loss of the forward quartet is a fair defense for the fall so far behind Liverpool, Neville said Gary Neville Podcast: “It’s a defense, but then you have to plan it.
“I know they did not want to do business in a transfer window in January, they thought there was no value in the market or couldn’t get a player who would enter and influence them.
“But they left themselves short, there was no doubt and they failed.
“When the (man) city was not there, a team that had to be there was Arsenal.
“It won’t be, it doesn’t look, and it’s a big shock and a surprise. It will be the hardest thing to hit in that Arsenal Boardro, is Mikel Artht and the players, because they are because they are desperately winning the title.
“Liverpool have drawn two in the last three, withdrawing four in the last eight, Arsenal approached approaching, could go within five points [against West Ham]. “
