It’s tough to admit, but after their 2-1 win over Leeds yesterday, it is obvious that Manchester City will win the Premier League this season. Only by dropping six points from now might the Citizens lose the league to Arsenal, who should not have dropped any points between now and when they play Wolves on May 28th.
Many people are wondering, “When did Arsenal lose the title race?” While some believe Saliba’s injury against Sporting Lisbon was the beginning of Arsenal’s decline in the Premier League title chase, others believe the 4-1 loss to Manchester City was the final straw. There are many other points of view on this subject among different Gooners, and at this point, each of them would make a point.
But what if I told you that Arsenal lost the league title just after the World Cup?
Arsenal, before the World Cup, only dropped 5 points in the same period; Manchester City dropped 10 points.
But after the World Cup, while their main title rivals have made it their ambition not to drop points, only dropping 10, they’ve carelessly dropped 19 points.
For the past few years, Liverpool has been competing with Manchester City for the league title. They’ve only beaten them once, so they know when to know if they are winning the race. According to Liverpool defender Trent Alexander Arnold, from Christmas Day to the end of the season, you ought to be better than Manchester City, as the Manchester Blues win the league during this period. The Red claims he may have known City would work away with this league title a while back, telling Red Bull, “The league’s obvious now, and I’ve said it for a while. If City are even anywhere close, if they smell blood at Christmas or New Year; it’s game over really, there’s no stopping them once they start winning, and now at this point, I’d be surprised if they drew a game
“I think it’s just got to be mindset; I think it’s just the messaging because they don’t even go behind in games at this point. There’s no messing around, there’s no scares, there’s no ups and downs.”
About what went wrong for Arsenal, he claimed: “Arsenal was exciting because they were dropping points, but in an exciting way. Whereas City, I don’t even know how to describe it; it’s like juggernauts.”
Other than making key signings and tactical tweaks, Arteta needs to devise a perfect game plan to outwit Guardiola and win next season’s league title.
I predict the Arsenal and Manchester City title race will return next term, and Arsenal won’t be as easy to beat as they’ve seemed.
Daniel O
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We need to win our remaining games, and believe me it’s on. You can call me delusional but City’s remaining games are not going to be easy for them. I still believe, though I know our our chances are very slim and almost non existent. Beat Newcastle and hope Madrid derail the Man City train.
We lost the title with three draws Liverpool, west ham and southampton and zinchenko not holding was one of the reasons nutmeged in the box for liverpools second goal out of position for both west hams 2nd and walcots goal.
Walcott’s goal was down to Gabriel not picking him up, if Saka scores that penalty, game over if Partey doesn’t get caught in possession, so many incidents you can blame along with Zinchenko
I fully agree
Arsenal started losing the edge over City since ignoring the hole at left back, resulting in a string of goal loses – – – conceeding the equalizing goal to Liverpool, 3 goals to Southhampton, 2 goals to Westham etc.
West Ham. That’s when I thought something is definitely wrong with the guys. To do the same thing in successive games did it for me. The Southampton game cemented fears that it was not just a hiccup. Then the usual weakmindedness when we played City was the final straw, because believe or not I actually had a feeling we were going to get a result there despite what happened in the previous few days. I’m a great believer in law of averages. But no, City just keep beating us every time we play them. Even when we outplay them for periods our fragile mentality always does us in eventually.
Arsenal lost the title when Saliba got injured. This injuryupset the confidence and belief the whole team had in themselves. Following this injury, we dropped 6 points out of a possible 9 against Liverpool from a lead of 2 – 0, West Ham again from a lead of 2 – 0, and against bottom of the table Southampton. Had we got the 6 points, even losing to Man City as we did, we would still have been 7 points ahead, with City having 2 matches in hand. Cith winning these 2 matches would still have left us ahead of them. That is when we lost the title.
Title was lost when we could not mange to beat the poorest team in he league. We got 2 points from Southampton, barely. We have been good, but what a CLASSIC pathetic show of mentality they have showed these last few weeks. Im actually stunned. Its weak, really weak and pathetic. Arteta REFUSED to sub Zinch vs pool, every Arsenal fan in the world was shouting TAKE HIM OFF for the last 20 mins. On top of that, Fabio Vieira is totally useless and would not get in our PL 2 side wtf. Classic Arsenal mode, Im not even bothered.
Southampton beat City 2-0 this season, t, results like this happen all the timehis is the PL
you’re absolutely right.
Daniel O, I’m afraid the title race may be between
more clubs than just us and City. A number of teams are going to make it harder for both clubs.
Magpies, Man U, Liverpool. If Di Zerbi stays at Brighton they’ll continue to be a tough nut whether or not we get Caicedo, because they lose good players and then just get better ! Villa has an excellent manager (who we got rid of).
Daniel that was in response to what you said about next season.
Post the title when we folded against pool, hammers and saints, that would give us 6 more points today
ARSENAL HASN’T LOST ANY TITLE. NO ONE HAS WON THE 2022/2023 TITLE YET.
Prophets of doom have given it to Man. City, though it doesn’t bear their name, nor has it been delivered to them.
Mohlanka are you a preacher ?
Before the lpool game many called for KT to fill LB because of Zinny weakness, Arteta did not see this or chose to ignore it and it cost us 6 points and the PL title.
Saliba injury contributed to this.
Also benching Trossad for Jesus who just returned from injury contributed.
Arteta lack of rotation meant when players get injured or lose form no one is ready to step up. This is also why going deep in cups is important but we did not prioritize this.
I think it was the West Ham game. The Liverpool draw started it, but Liverpool are a stronger side than WH
By losing a 2 goal lead twice, that was an ominous sign, only exacerbated by the shocking effort against Southampton
I’m not about blaming individuals but rather wondering why dominant displays petered out
Throwing 2 points away at Anfield was the start of the fall and it put a spanner in the works because nobody knew what to do to sort it.
Agree with you Reggie. Was greatly devastated when Firmino scored that header. Knew it was the begining of the end.
I’m going to offer a different option. For me, we lost the league when we capitulated against Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League. I don’t buy into the ‘concentrate on the league’ concept. All it did was increase the pressure to win the league or end the season empty-handed again. That competition was there to be won and we went out in the most ridiculous way.
That’s a good and interesting call Ben.
Personally I was glad to get the Europa League out of the way, but it didn’t do us any good did it.
It’s all just speculation. A trophy is a trophy at the end of the season and it’s better to have one than not imo.
The Liverpool-West Ham- Southampton series of games was the fall.
Not dropping underperformers and lacking leadership on the pitch to knuckle up did them in.
Coddling favorites doesn’t work; it didn’t last year and didn’t this year.
The turning point for me came in the match with FCL. An excellently played match, which we didn’t lose in the end only thanks to Aaron. The main reason for the loss of much needed points was in the general managers. While Klop reacted excellently to the development of the match, MA blindly trusted his favorites and was not able to adequately react to the course of the second half. And the same thing happened in the next two matches. Losing at MC was just a logical outcome of the discomfort from the previous matches…
I think if Man City drop 5 points which could still happen. And if Arsenal collect all their remaining 12 points of the season. Aesenal will win the Epl title this season.
Man City may not collect all their remaining 15 points of the season. But prayerfully and hopefully from the Arsenal perspective, drop 5 points out of the 15 before season’s end. And if the Gunners seized the initiatives to capitalize on the Citizens’ 5 dropped points. And collect their remaining 12 points. The League title this term will be us Arsenal win.
Therefore, to keep us Arsenal hopes to win the League title this season alive but not watch it dead. The Gunners MUST in this quest beat Newcaste at home today’s evening.
I predict the final score-line to read: Newcaste United 0-3 Arsenal.
I believe that Lisbon was a very bad night for us and when the wheels started to fall off.we were meant to rest several regular but ended up playing them.not only did we lose but extra time, penalties took a lot out of the team,add to that injuries to Saliba, Tomi.this is also the night MA lost confidence in some of our fringe players.after that game he was even more reluctant to trust/play them and you have it.
We Lost The League Same Night We Lost The Lisbon Game And William Saliba To Injury. Two Factors Actually;
1. Being Sent Out Of The Europe By Sporting In The Fashion That We Did Made The Coach To Loose Confident On Fringes (Backup) Players And He Somehow Never Wanted To Okay Them Again.
2. The Lost Of William Saliba Was Only A Big Blow To Our Defense Line But Also Dampens The Team’s Confidence As A Whole And It Leads To Our Worst Three Consecutive Poor Run Of Results (3 Draws) This Season Especially After Going 2 Goals Ahead? Nay! That Haven’t Happened With Saliba At That Central Defence. Without Those Draws, City Beaten Us At The Etihad Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference As Far As Where EPL Title Would Have Finally Ended. If Only We’d Won Those Games, City Would’ve Just Been Chasing Shadows.