Gary Neville remains unfazed by Arsenal’s recent poor run of form and asserts that they are not yet out of the Premier League title race.
At the beginning of the season, the former Manchester United star predicted that Mikel Arteta’s side could be contenders to end their title drought this term. While Arsenal had a strong start to the season, recent struggles have seen them lose their last two league games in 2023.
Currently, Arsenal is five points behind league leaders Liverpool, and with Manchester City surpassing them in the table, some fans are sceptical about their title chances.
However, Neville maintains that Arsenal is still in the race and said, as quoted by the Daily Mail:
‘I’m not going to change my prediction I don’t think you can sort of flip flop half way through a season.
‘They’re not completely out of it Arsenal.
‘I’ve been disappointed with them, they’ll be disappointed with themselves and the Arsenal fans will be disappointed with them over the past two or three weeks because they’ve missed an opportunity to put themselves in a great position.
‘Not where they would be in a position where you would say they’re going to win the league but that four, five six point gap with the games they have had in the last few weeks.
‘They’re just in a difficult patch but they can come back, they can win the league.’
Just Arsenal Opinion
We remain in the title race and there are so many more games to play, so no smart person will give up on us so soon.
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Most title winners come from being behind in the race so that gives me hope
The way we started, I thought we were winning through resilient defence, but the attack hadn’t got going – I was hoping for/expecting a positive change in our attacking play once players came into form, but we’ve actually seen a regression, both in attack AND defence (btw, it aligns with carragher’s observation that our defence started to lapse last season BEFORE saliba’s injury – we look more vulnerable now, and he’s playing; he’s great, but he doesn’t make us perfect). I’m concerned now, but one win could start to turn things around. Can’t see us winning the title at this point though. I think Liverpool are running on adrenaline, but city are starting to power up again.
Arteta will be in the title race. We need to make 2 signings this January. Ivan Toney and Paulinha.
Arsenal i mean to say.
Arteta needs to learn from mistakes. he needs to change his tactics. He needs to utilize his squad more. Rotation is key