With at least 11 match days remaining, the premier title race has reached the homestretch. Arsenal lead the PL title race with 66 points after beating Fulham 3-0, 5 points ahead of Manchester City.
Although Arsenal seem to be the favourites to win the league with the amount of games remaining, nothing is decided yet, and that’s why Haaland had the pleasure of sending a warning to Arsenal after guiding Man City to a win over Crystal Palace on Saturday evening through a second-half penalty. “Every single game (is tough) and now Leipzig (in the Champions League) is the next game, then it’s Burnley (in the FA Cup), and we have to win,” said Haaland via the Athletic.
“We have to win games. Of course, this gap (to Arsenal). We have to just focus on ourselves. We have them at home. We still have a lot of games yet to play still and nothing is decided yet.”
True to Haaland’s words, nothing has been decided yet. And like Arteta has always said this season, Arsenal just needs to focus on what they can control, and the rest will follow. At this point, the Gunners can’t control whether City win or lose, but they can make sure they match them or are better than them.
In the end, with belief, everything will work out. If they do so and manage to humiliate Haaland and his teammates next month, then after a long wait, Arsenal may finally be tagged as the Premier League favourites.
Daniel O
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Haarland apparently thinks that City just need to keep on winning. I wonder how or where he came up with that “genius” solution to their problem.
So then , winning is, apparently, all it takes. Whoever would have guessed THAT!
One thing for sure if win on Sunday against Palace , there will be a lot of nervous Citizens as that 5 point lead extend to eight.
I expect the mind games to ratchet up in the coming weeks.
From our point of view, all we can do is win against Palace. I dont agree city will be nervous, they are too professional to be nervous, they know the score and how not too get nervous.
It is said, it’s not sweat Royal sheepdog not sweating but the tall hair on its skin covers it all.
Pep mind games are how he mask and manage that distraction, when he’s under pressure.
There is no other manager on planet earth hates losing than Pep Guardiola, have seen him in losing position and he panic, he sometime will overthink his moves too.
Yes the Citizens are a mighty assemble team, they are a season campaigner and may just be able to muster up enough mental strength, but we are hungrier and happier as a unit and if we win on Sunday am sure as night will turn to day there must be some psychological pressure of sort and that might just be enough to tilt the scale.
A fan wrote Sunday match could be a pivotal game of the campaign and I strongly agree.
Not sure why my reply to Reggie haven’t gone through
It sounds to me that city are already nervous!!! First of all, we have Pep saying The Arsenal are the team to beat and now we have Haaland saying they have to ignore us!!
As I have previously said, this is a massive week for them and with Pep saying he will be judged on his CL results, he will be concentrating on that game and then the q/f against one of his old players.
Meanwhile, we play Palace at home and SL, hopefully opening up a eight point lead in the PL and advancing in the Europa league
What a pivotal week for both clubs!!
It is said, its not sweat Royal sheepdog not sweating but its tall hair on its skin hides it why you are not seeing the sweat.
Pep Guardiola mind games mask his nervousness.
There is not a manager on the planet that hates losses than Pep Guardiola, have seen him in losing position and he panic.
He can even be accused of over thinking his game plan.
But I do agree with you Reggie, the Citizens are a season campaigner, who has demonstrated great mental strength in the pass, but please note they are not the same this season with Haaland in their team.
We are hungrier and happier as a unit, a win against the Eagles on Sunday will be massive and sure to cause some physiological pressure of sorts,
As a fan quite rightly noted, Sunday game could be pivotal and I strongly agree.
It’s now becoming obvious that pep has become nervous because everytime he expects arsenal to loose a match they keep on winning and having in mind that its only 11 games to go