Following a failed title challenge in 2022–23. Arsenal entered the 2023–24 season determined to mount another title challenge that would result in league glory.
The Gunners demonstrated their intent to win the league during the first few months of the season, picking up result after result. By December, they had only lost to Newcastle, which many attributed to poor officiating. December turned out to be a difficult month for them, as they only managed one league win while losing three games and drawing one, dropping ten points they shouldn’t have.
The December results have left Arsenal five points off the top of the league, raising doubts about their ability to compete for the title. With 18 games remaining, everything is still possible, of course.
Speaking of the title fight, the Manchester City midfielder, Rodri, acknowledges the Gunners showed enough quality to win the league last season but didn’t because of experience, which he implies is always a hindrance in the Premier League title race.
That said, he now believes this season they have some more experience to use in the title charge, but he makes it clear that he doesn’t think the Gunners will be City’s biggest rival. “If you ask me, our real contenders are Liverpool,” he said on City’s YouTube channel.
“Because they have the experience of winning in the last years. Arsenal showed the level last year they can do and this year they have the experience they didn’t have last time.
If Arsenal learned anything from their failed title bid last season, it should be that the league is won in the final few games of the season, not after just half the schedule. Manchester City had a rough start to the 2022–23 season, but they were able to turn things around in the second half. That is what Arsenal need to do now to prove Rodri wrong…
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If players like Rodri don’t try to take out our captain in a Euro qualifier like he did in March maybe we can still provide the biggest test for his club this season.
Even though he never wrote us off I do think it is reasonable to say that Arsenal neither look like or play like title contenders.
To me they looked like a team at the end of the season with nothing left to play for – who knows, in a few weeks that might be true
With due respect to Daniel hi sfinal paragraph is nonsense! ALL titles are won not in the first part,or the middle part or the last part of the season, but in the most consistent results ALL THROUGH the season.
Titles are played out and therefore won over38 games, which takes the whole season . You may well think that is obvious, but not, it seems, to Daniel.
What he claims is not uncommon, but it is NOT true but only a wellworn and plainly UNTRUE cliche.
If we’re tailing we have to stay within five points of the top team until we get to those last ten games where there are surprising results due to pressure or desperation or whatnot. We can come from behind to win it is what I’m telling myself because we need to be in the conversation, to be a contender is all that I ask