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Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has refused to concede defeat within the Premier League title race regardless of Liverpool extending their result in 11 factors over the weekend.
The Gunners suffered a harmful 1-0 defeat at residence to West Ham on Saturday, permitting Liverpool to extend their dominance over the North Londoners with a 2-0 win at Manchester Metropolis a day later.
Arteta’s males have performed a recreation lower than the Reds and can look to try to cut back the hole once they go to Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.
When requested if Liverpool’s lead is an excessive amount of to reel in, Arteta responded: “Over my lifeless physique”, whereas insisting his aspect will maintain combating till is it no mathematically potential.
He added: “If not I’ll go residence. Mathematically it’s potential. You’re there, it’s important to play each recreation, instantly three days in the past we may shut a niche and you might be like ‘you might be one-and-a-half video games away’. It doesn’t matter, we now have to proceed to go.
“The problem is greater than three days about but when you’re going to win the Premier League it’s important to do one thing particular.
“If you’re going to win the Premier League with the circumstances we now have you’ll most likely must do one thing that no one else has carried out within the historical past of the Premier League.”
“If not, I’d go residence” 🏡
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Arteta: ‘Very disappointing weekend’
Liverpool’s draw with Aston Villa a number of days earlier had given Arsenal the possibility to cut back the hole however as a substitute, they’re now clinging on within the title race after struggling their first league defeat in 15 video games courtesy of Jarrod Bowen’s objective.
Arteta stated: “It was a really disappointing weekend. The earlier 15 video games we had received 10 and drawn 5 – precisely the identical as Liverpool with precisely the identical objective distinction.
“So we now have been extraordinarily constant during the last three months contemplating every part we now have been by.
“We now have generated that momentum and it was that weekend the place we now have to go once more however we received a defeat. On prime of that they [Liverpool] win.
“When you find yourself making an attempt to beat that momentum and we put a lot into it with the circumstances that we now have, it was a very exhausting one to take. The truth is there are such a lot of video games to play and it’s important to get again to it.”
On if the defeat by West Ham was his most irritating, Arteta stated: “I don’t know, it’s not a frustration.
“It’s a sense of understanding how a lot we had put into it, to be the place we’re, that when you have got an opportunity to take one other step after which on Wednesday must be one other one after which on Sunday one other one – particularly with the shape Liverpool are in.
“It was a tricky one to take, particularly at residence the place we now have been so constant.”
