Mikel Arteta says he nonetheless believes Arsenal can win the Premier League title regardless of sitting 11 factors behind Liverpool.
The Gunners’ and Liverpool’s win over Manchester Metropolis on Sunday widened the hole between the 2 golf equipment.
It has led to many declaring the title race over, however Arteta hit again at these strategies.
“It’s been extremely satisfying to work daily with the gamers and the coaches and the employees to attempt to overcome sure conditions,” he stated.
“If any individual informed you initially of the season by this time you might have performed 5 instances with a pink card, over half an hour in every of these video games, and you’ve got misplaced this quantity of gamers what’s the wager that you’re in the midst of the desk a minimum of? And you’re out of the Champions League?
“That’s not the state of affairs. That tells you the resilience, the assets, the ambition that the workforce have and that each particular person has, and that has been in all probability in my time right here, one of many proudest moments to work in that sense.
“The factor is that if you end up there, you need increasingly more and extra. I’m not going to cease. Over my lifeless physique. We (can’t) cease pondering that manner and cease placing every little thing we probably can to extend that chance of us successful and being higher than the opponent and hitting that efficiency stage and the requirements always, no matter what occurs.”
Requested if he genuinely believes Arsenal can nonetheless win the league, Arteta added: “If not I’ll go house then guys.
“Mathematically it’s potential. We’re there. Three days in the past we had been closing the hole and we had been one-and-a-half video games away. It doesn’t matter. Now we have to proceed to go.
“The issue is greater than three days in the past but when we need to win the Premier League we’re going to must do one thing particular, with the circumstances we now have, and possibly do one thing that nobody else has finished within the historical past of the Premier League.”