No staff has ever gained the Premier League title with out having a participant within the prime 10 goalscorers, however might Arsenal change that?
The Gunners are having a wonderful season with solely two defeats in all competitions and boasting a 100% report within the Champions League, whereas they’re six factors clear on the prime of the Premier League.
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Mikel Arteta’s aspect are additionally within the semi-final of the Carabao Cup and have progressed to the fourth spherical of the FA Cup. These stats are much more spectacular when bearing in mind Arsenal are doing all of it with no free-scoring ahead.
The bottom ever prime goalscorer from a Premier League-winning aspect is Frank Lampard with 13 when lifted the 2004-05 trophy. That was matched by Ilkay Gundogan in 2020-21 title-winning season.
When Arteta was requested about that statistic earlier than Arsenal’s final Premier League match in opposition to the Gunners boss stated: “We would like the targets to unfold and our strikers scoring over 20 targets, that is the concept.”
The Gunners are sharing out the targets and have had 13 completely different top-flight scorers this season, with solely Brighton having extra (15).
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Arteta was additionally requested about Viktor Gyokeres not scoring from open play in 10 matches, however the Gunners supervisor made it clear that the staff successful is the precedence.
“I am most likely higher to not speak an excessive amount of,” he added. “These gamers and the standard that they’ve round them, then they will go and rating 10 video games in a row.
“The great factor is that the staff is performing very well and successful matches and that is what we want.”