Mikel Arteta watches on throughout Arsenal’s draw with Crystal Palace (Picture by Ryan Pierse/Getty Photographs)
Arsenal picked up their thirteenth draw of the season within the Premier League yesterday as they had been held at residence by Crystal Palace.
The consequence leaves league leaders Liverpool only one level away from mathematically wrapping up the Premier League title.
The Reds tackle Tottenham at residence subsequent and can seemingly get the consequence they must be confirmed as champions by the tip of this week.
It’s a blow for Arsenal, who would seemingly have been season as larger favourites for the title earlier than the beginning of the season.
The Gunners ran Manchester Metropolis very shut within the final two years, whereas Liverpool had been rebuilding after the blow of dropping legendary supervisor Jurgen Klopp.
Arsenal have drawn too many video games to be champions
Arsenal have, nevertheless, drawn far too many video games to maintain up with Liverpool, with solely Everton having extra attracts within the league (14) up to now this season.
This undesirable document means Arsenal have misplaced just one extra sport than Liverpool, however have gained six fewer, leaving them a reasonably distant second place for now.
Arteta responded to being labelled draw specialists by saying (through the Metro): “We haven’t been capable of see the video games off for a lot of causes, and the margins have been too small.
“Generally that, typically credit score to the opposition, it’s true that we performed 5 instances with ten males.
“There are quite a lot of components, however clearly it’s one thing that we’ve performed a lot better previously, particularly after we’ve been forward in video games.
“Right now, with out actually a lot occurring, particularly within the second half, we’ve got to have the ability to see the sport off.”
Arsenal haven’t gained the league for the reason that well-known 2003/04 ‘Invincibles’ season and it’s clear they’ll have to strengthen their squad this summer season to show these attracts into wins and at last finish their drought subsequent time period.
