Mikel Arteta pictured throughout Arsenal’s Champions League match with Sporting CP. (Picture by Alex Pantling/Getty Photographs)
Mikel Arteta has fired a warning to Liverpool in regards to the difficulties they may face holding onto their lead within the Premier League title race.
The Reds presently sit eight factors clear on the summit heading into this weekend’s key conflict towards Manchester Metropolis after successful 10 and dropping simply one in every of their opening 12 matches.
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Nevertheless, Arne Slot will doubtless be the primary to inform you that isn’t an unassailable lead. In reality, there have been seven events in Premier League historical past alone the place a niche of 10 or extra factors has been overturned by the eventual title winner.
Nonetheless, Liverpool look nearly unstoppable proper now and it’s going to take one thing particular to cease them, each domestically and on the continent.
Mikel Arteta fires title warning to Liverpool
Complacency or accidents may additionally play a key position and after watching his aspect cleared the path at numerous factors over the past two seasons — together with by eight factors in January 2023 — with out successful the title, Arteta has despatched some phrases of warning to Arne Slot.
“We’ve been there and to maintain it for 10 months is extraordinarily tough,” Arteta instructed Sky Sports activities forward of Arsenal’s conflict with London rivals West Ham. “All of a sudden if you suppose you have got it, at some point it collapses.
“It may be a consequence, by means of accidents or other forms of choices. And it will probably occur in any second. Now we have to be prepared for that.
“However it’s one thing we are able to’t management. What we are able to management is be at our best possible.”
Requested if Arsenal are able to catching Liverpool this season to win their first title since 2003/04, Arteta replied: “I actually consider in my group, sure.”
