Arsenal will need help from their fierce rivals, Tottenham, if they are to win the Premier League title this season.
Tottenham will face Manchester City in the penultimate game of the season at home, and if they can take points off the Citizens, Arsenal will be in a position to clinch the title, provided they win their remaining league games as well.
However, the Lilywhites are also aiming to qualify for the Champions League at the end of this season, which adds a layer of complexity to the situation. They need to win the game against Manchester City.
This puts Tottenham in a dilemma as they must decide whether they want to win and secure Champions League qualification, potentially helping Arsenal win the Premier League, or if they want to play in the Europa League to prevent Arsenal from winning the title.
But Troy Deeney insists that Spurs should want to help Arsenal become champions. He writes in The Sun:
‘I’m getting to a point where, as a football fan, I want a different team to win the league. Not because City are terrible but it just gets boring.
‘We want to see the likes of City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and, hopefully, Spurs all pushing and competing until the final ebbs of the season.
‘I want to be sat there thinking, “Blimey, who’s going to win the league?” rather than, “This is a done deal, it’s City, roll on the summer” because it becomes a waste of time.
‘So, here we go: Tottenham should WANT to help Arsenal win the title by getting a result against City.
‘It will give themselves and everyone else hope that they can win it one day.’
Just Arsenal Opinion
We need their help to win the league, and we expect Spurs to try to win, even though that does not guarantee that they can defeat Manchester City.
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So sad that we need to rely on others to do us favours.
When we had the advantage we wasted it just like last season.
City seem to be rolling on and getting stronger each game so unlikely they will slip up but you never know.
If we want to roll over and play in first gear, then that’s not really any of Troy Deeney’s or Arsenal’s business is it. We don’t tell you guys who to delibertely lose against.
He wasn’t saying that was he?
Where did Troy Deeny suggest that? It was about Spurs wanting to win for themselves so that the league becomes more competitive- rather than have dominance by one team year after year
I like Troy Sue, he always comes up with a gem.
Roll over all you want, your team won’t make top four. Keep an eye on Toon and Chelsea though, they might as well knock you off 5th, enjoy the rest of your miserable season.
Welp, Leno was determined to make Arsenal lose the title today…
Spurs don’t know how to defend,
And Westham are all but a walking corpse,
So… Yeah… Good luck with that 🙃
I do have one existential question tho, if Villa put 2 against us with ease, and Olympiacos put 6 past Villa with ease, would Olympiacos then put 8 past us just as easily? 🤔
No son, football doesn’t work that way, it’s not Mathematics.
Some Spurs fans are saying that we want City to beat us just because it winds you up. Some genuinely mean it. Champions League might be out of reach for Spurs by Tuesday anyway though, if Villa beat Liverpool. But why wasn’t there all this fuss when Fabregas, then at Chelsea, said that he didn’t mind if his team lost to Leicester back in 2016 if it stopped Spurs winning the title
I had to check Deeney’s article, and he really did say that. Anyone else might have said that a Spurs win over City would help Arsenal by default, not because they wanted us to win the league as it was someone else’s turn, but because they themselves wanted to advance.
Good old Troy, never lets you down.
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It is all childish to say that Spurs would rather miss out on Europe if that denies Arsenal the title! I believe any team worth its name would want to win games rather than engage in conspiracies and/or match fixing which is a punishable offence in games. None of us can dictate the conduct of other teams. It is not easy to determine how this will all pan out. What if, maybe by miracle, West Ham stops Man City? No one single team can decide the outcome of matches.
The article referring to some kind of “dilemma” is ridiculous. Spurs simply need to win for their own progress. Nothing to do with Arsenal.
There are other more relevant issues. The most important is whether Spurs are good enough to beat MC.
Spurs level of motivation may also be relevant depending on Aston Villa’s result on Sunday.
Spurs’ players and coaching staff WILL play to WIN, forget about what their silly fans think, but the question is, do they have what it takes? i don’t think so. Hence, why i think our best bet to clinch the title is City’s final game against West ham!
City will score six (at least) against West Ham, and not just to get their goal difference down. Although we’ll probably have a bit of a goal festival against Everton.
Sorry, that was my answer to another of your comments on a different article.
Six? I don’t think so but fingers crossed.