The Gunners are back in action this afternoon as they take on fierce rivals Manchester City. The Gunners welcome the Citizens to the Emirates in the final match of game week 5 and it is shaping up to be a blockbuster fixture. Both sides are in fairly good form, but the Gunners are widely considered favourites.
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Unbeaten in their last five matches against City, Arsenal also dismantled their rivals in this same fixture last season. The north Londoners’ superb defensive record has put them in a good position to win, and even an in-form Erling Haaland will struggle against our backline. Add the fact that we will be at home, then it is not difficult to see why we have been given a favourable chance of winning. With that said, however, we cannot rule out a Manchester City victory at the Emirates. In this painful hypothetical scenario, the Gunners would have started the league campaign with three wins from five and considering Liverpool’s form, the loss could be damaging to our title aspirations.
Liverpool set the pace
The Reds have made a flawless start to the campaign and the biggest concern is that they have not even been at their best for much of the early season. Their performances have not set the world ablaze, while they have relied on a number of late goals to win games so far. Even with that said, the bottom line is that they are currently sitting comfortably at the league summit with a one hundred per cent record.
By the time they kick off against City later today, Arsenal will be six points adrift of the Merseyside club. This fact alone makes a win even more crucial and most will definitely agree. Liverpool and Arsenal will almost certainly battle it out for the league title again, but it is imperative that we do not play catch-up this early in the campaign. Using the previous campaign as an example, the Gunners could never really mount a title push due to having to play catch-up for much of the season. With this in mind, a potential loss could be extremely detrimental.
Arsenal must stay confident
Nevertheless, Arsenal are widely considered favourites for a reason, as revealed earlier. The majority of fans will go into the encounter with a great deal of confidence, so hopefully, the Gunners will come out victorious.
Would a loss cripple our title hopes?
Benjamin Kenneth
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100% it would cripple it. Liverpool had no pressure on them at all last season, they flew out of the blocks. We and everyone else didn’t. A win is a must, a loss or a draw is not going to cut it.
Dropping points today does not necessarily mean the title is over but the chances of winning the title will get slimmer.
Have to agree with those comments. We have to assume that Liverpool will continue to win their games….and they have really ridden their luck so far this season . (Reminds me of MUFC under Sir A !!). Arsenal will be Champions….yes ; so we have to face these challenges with grit , determination and class. The midfield battle will be crucial to the outcome.
No. There are loads of games left. But winning today would give us a huge high going forward.
It’s not a good vibe to start discussing “a loss” factor we fans want positivity. Discussing a win and at the least a draw is more convenient.
Liverpool have been.lucky with some of their wins I don’t see them sustaining that for long…
😂😂😂😂😂😂 they did last season and have bought 2 players in for way over 100 mil each. Lucky🤣🤣
Although nothings decided regards todays result. To fall further behind a Liverpool side that hasn’t really hit their stride yet would be a very bad idea.🤷♂️
Yeah, never going to win anything with Arteta in charge.
Typical..
You can’t really make this up. Is this the attitude with which they came from the tunnel, really!?
You have Eze and choose Troussard. You have Ethan and choose Marino. Arteta is not a coach that will dare to dream.
A home match against a side that have bern struggling defensively and we soundly bear last Season by attacking them at pace…Once again Arteta reverts to type.He has the opportunity to start Eze in the middle and plays Merino instead and starts with Trossard who seems to be much more useful when he comes on.as a sub.
“No Guts No Glory”!!
YES. YES. YES…
Arteta is so scared of Guardiola, he sets up the team like he is going to play him, and he shows zero respect for the players.
Sorry Mohlanka, I bet to disagree. Both of them Arteta and Pep were scared of each other. I have never seen Pep scoring just 1 goal in a game and going to a back 5 to secure 1 goal lead before. You should go and listen to his interview after the game and hear what he had to say about arsenal. If you allowed 2/3goals against city by opening up too much in the first half, I bet it with you the game is gone already. 1goal against at 9mins to the game and we still got a point, I don’t see it as a bad game/point
Thank God we got the equaliser, but after we got the goal, I was a bit disappointed we took the pressure off, and were happy to settle for a draw.
Totally agree Gmv8, the final five minutes was a frustrating watch. It turned into a scrappy dog fight where we seemed to have lost control of the momentum.