Michael Owen has revealed the one means he can see Arsenal pipping Liverpool to the Premier League title after the Gunners misplaced 1-0 at residence to West Ham.
A primary-half strike from Jarrod Bowen noticed the Hammers take all three factors on the Emirates Stadium, whereas Myles Lewis-Skelly was despatched off in a foul afternoon for Mikel Arteta’s males.
Liverpool are at present eight factors forward of second-placed Arsenal and could go 11 points clear on Sunday in the event that they beat defending champions Manchester Metropolis on the Etihad Stadium.
A win at Man Metropolis would actually all however seal the Premier League title for Liverpool however ex-Reds striker Owen reckons there may be nonetheless a means that Arsenal might come out on high.
Owen insists that the Gunners can have an opportunity of pipping Liverpool to first place if Arteta’s facet go the remainder of the explanation unbeaten.
Former Premier League striker Owen told Premier League Productions: “You’re going for a title and Liverpool have stumbled within the final couple of weeks.
“I do know you’ve bought accidents however you’re at residence towards West Ham and also you’ve nonetheless bought staff on the market. You’d assume they might discover a means however the West Ham goalkeeper was hardly labored in the present day.
“They may nonetheless be on the market now and so they wouldn’t have scored. It’s disappointing for the Arsenal followers and now they’re going to wish to ask for lots of assist from different groups.
“Liverpool have been completely good this season, nobody can deny they need to be high. We’re all wanting on the run-in and questioning if Arsenal can do it.
“Now Liverpool want 29 factors out of 26 which isn’t a banker nonetheless, it’s not a banker. However that’s assuming Arsenal go unbeaten and that’s the laborious factor as a result of they’re struggling for firepower.
“However they’ve bought to goal for that as a result of something much less and also you’d assume Liverpool would do it.”
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Arteta felt his facet didn’t attain the mandatory requirements to beat West Ham on Saturday, the Arsenal boss stated: “To start with, congratulations to West Ham for the victory. We’re very disillusioned with the outcome and as properly the efficiency for the final interval of the sport as a result of we actually needed it and confirmed that we actually needed it, and it turns into actually troublesome with 10 males.
“In the present day, we weren’t on the ranges and requirements that we now have to hit to be significantly better than the opposition.”
Forward of their journey to Nottingham Forest on Wednesday, Arteta added: “We’ve to undergo the ache of defeat and an enormous a part of the efficiency as properly. That’s what we’re going to wish on Wednesday, to place in a special efficiency and win the sport.
“Let’s undergo the ache; let’s analyse, have a look at ourselves within the mirror and on Monday we go once more.”
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