Why Arsenal can beat Manchester City to the Premier League title by AA
You don’t need the wisdom of Aristotle to understand the reason why Thierry Henry is not convinced that Arsenal can beat Manchester City to the Premier League title, as stated in an article on JustArsenal previously.
The Citizens have won five of the last six League titles and with Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland, they have two of the best match-winners in the country, but they aren’t impeccable.
Despite winning five of their last six games, the defending champions have struggled to put teams away, with Haaland missing clear-cut chances and their defense looking more vulnerable than ever.
They conceded very early against a dismal Manchester United side and could only manage to score one goal in their victories over Brentford and Bournemouth, (and they were their only clean sheets in their last six matches) evidencing why they have been far from convincing.
In contrast, the way we have been dealing with teams at the moment is unmatched in the league, with Sheffield United being the latest victim of our ruthlessness, putting five goals past them inside 45 minutes.
Speaking to ESPN FC after our latest triumph, our former midfielder, Stewart Robson detailed why we are the best team in the league presently.
“ What they do so well is that they can play in tight areas when they are in the top area of the field, they are in around the box, they are even better than Manchester City in finding the right pass at the right time.”
“They make it look so easy, there is nothing clever about what they do, they just find the pass and if you watch them train before the game, when they have their warm-up, they play those little triangles on the corner of the penalty box, 20 minutes before they go out on the pitch, so it is something they work out all the time.”
“ Plus you have got Martinelli who can run like the wind down the left-hand side and you have got Saka who was brilliant and because Jorginho was playing, Declan Rice can make those forward runs. Havertz led the line much better than he had done before. I thought it was an outstanding performance, and at the moment I would say they are almost unplayable.”
With key players like Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko returning from injury, there is no reason why Mikel Arteta’s side can’t continue with their recent form and beat Manchester City and Liverpool to the title.
When you also take a look at our fixtures for the remainder of the season, we have got a good chance of winning the league though we will need Manchester City and Liverpool to drop points (against each other this weekend?)
Besides our trip to the Etihad, there is no ground that we can’t get maximum points and our home fixtures are all winnable with only Aston Villa and Chelsea likely to be banana skins.
Manchester City also have a set of winnable fixtures but they face Liverpool next at Anfield where winning has been as rare as the hen’s teeth for them, and also have to visit Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, a ground they haven’t won a Premier League game in a few years.
Conclusively, the foregoing is not to argue whether Manchester City are the favourites to win the Premier League, but to expose the fact that they are not indomitable as it were and we can beat them to the title.
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Well IMO he wants it more than we all can imagine..so lads keep the momentum and beat whoever in front of u be it citeh…C.O.Y.G!!!
I agree that City have not been as great as they have been previously. The games they’ve won recently have a lot to do with individual brilliance rather than them playing well as a team. As for Liverpool,Thursday football and injuries could well derail them.We just need to keep winning our matches and anything can happen.
Yea citeh hasn’t been great..Liverpool plague with injuries its a good fight up there for us and no better way to be scoring scoring winning winning scaring the hearts of citeh and Liverpool..boom!!u see them been nervous too…scrappy wins there and there for citeh and Liverpool tells me in time for our team playing with fast and furious approach tearing teams apart with different scorers..C.O.Y.G!!!..pep and kloop knows its weird for us to be in this form right now so they are nervous..C.O.Y.G !!!momentum is the key word…so unpredictable MA learnt indeed thee the timing of our cracks last season…cnt u I bet remaining matches is sure wins epl has to see this team is here to stay at the top …Happy Happy and determined focusing steadily confidently!!!…..
We can beat City to the title but we need to beat them in our head to head. City haven’t looked good and even not being on top form they find themselves above us on the table.
Liverpool is a very difficult one to call with all their injuries, but they keep picking up points regardless and you can see Klopp has a large influence on the coaching of the academy players, they slot right in and are quite brilliant.
After match day 27 last season we were 1st in the EPL and had 5 more points than we do at the equivalent stage. If we can pull off the title it will certainly be one of the more memorable run-ins in EPL history.
A very good synopsis there PJ-SA
Good, Sue? Or hopeful only?
I’m hopeful but then I was last year too
We have played well during this run so I hope Arteta keeps this lineup selection for these big games.
Kiwior has been great at LB and our defense has been keeping clean sheets nearly every game. Zinchenko should not be the starter as Kiwior has earned his chance as first choice.
Havertz is scoring as our striker, team is purring, and attack is so smooth and sublime. Sorry but no way Jesus goes back to being the starter.
Remember when an in form Trossard was immediately dropped for Jesus and it disrupted the flow and chemistry?
Keep starting Havertz as striker and Jesus should earn his way back; scoring goals especially if he wants to replace Havertz.
Not exactly an embarrassment of riches, but the returning players will give Arteta more of a headache when picking the team now. I quite agree with you, Durand, that Jesus should earn his place – so too with Zinchenko.
We can beat Chelsea at home, we can beat anyone at home, but Spurs away is more the banana skin where we need to win at all cost.
The legend may well have a point, one thing for sure whoever peg back the champions shall surely win.
Though two points off the pace from the Merseyside club, am rooting for them this weekend, its easier seeing them having a blip than the citizens.
It is certainly fair to say that of late we are definitely playing better than any other team, bar none.
However, that does not mean we will win games so easily as we have been doing of late. from now on. The harder run of games begins after we play Brentford.
Moreover and IMPORTANTLY, we are massively dependant on ALL our key players staying fit til seasons end. That means Saka, Gabriel, Saliba, Rice and Odegaard,which is very unlikely.
City has a far deeper squad than we do and CAN COVER FOR THEIR KEY PLAYERDS MISSING, FAR BETTER THAN WE CAN.
Right now City has almost a fully fit squad, at least for their key players.
I expect City to beat Liverpool this weekend, though a draw suits us better.
For these sound reasons I EXPECT US NOT to win the title this season.
Much will depend on all three rival clubs perfs in Europe.
Whisper it only, but our MOST REALISTIC HOPE OF WINNING THE TITLE, is if we get knocked out by Porto, even though I predict that will not happen.