The 11 advantage points that Liverpool has over Arsenal are, for many, such a wide distance that the Premier League has already sentenced. But not for Mikel Arteta. The Spanish coach of the ‘Gunner’ team grabs the game less who already have the resilience capacity of his team. And he has made it clear at a press conference, before the duel against Nottingham Forest, third classified of the Premier.
“If someone tells you at the beginning of the season that at this point you have played five times with a red card in more than half an hour of game and you have lost this number of players [por lesiones]What are you betting at at least in the middle of the table and outside the Champions League? But that is not the situation and that speaks of the resilience and ambition that the team has. That has probably been one of my most proud moments in that regard. When you are there, you want more. And above my corpse we will stop thinking that way and put everything we can to improve it “, were the applauded words of arteta at a press conference, before the duel this Wednesday.
The resilience and ambition that the team has. That has probably been one of my most proud moments in that regard
Mikel Arteta
The Spanish coach was asked, directly, if he thought that Arsenal would have options to win the Premier despite the difference with Liverpool. And it was blunt: “If we can’t, I better go home.”
While there are options, Arteta will not change your mentality: “Mathematically it is possible, you are there and you have to play all the games. Three days ago we could shorten the difference and be to a game and a half, but it does not matter. We have to move on “
Win the Premier? Mathematically it is possible, you are there and you have to play all the games
Mikel Arteta
The defeat against West Ham, unexpected, opened the gap a little more. “If you want to win the Premier League, you have to do something special. If you want to win it in the circumstances we have, you probably have to do something that nobody else has done in the history of the Premier League,” Arteta closed. Before Forest, one more opportunity to continue in the fight.