Arsenal remain top of the Premier League after comfortably beating Bournemouth on Saturday, though title rivals Manchester City do have a game in hand on the GunnersThe Premier League title race will go down to the final two weeks of the season after Arsenal comfortably beat Bournemouth to keep pace with Manchester City.
The Gunners are currently ahead of the reigning champions, though Pep Guardiola’s side have a game in hand on their title rivals.
Mikel Arteta is now ironically relying on bitter rivals Tottenham to beat City in that game in hand.And the Spaniard is still confident that his side will end up winning their first title for 20 years. He has warned Guardiola that the Gunners will keep pushing to the final minute of the season as they look to end their long drought.
Elsewhere, club legend Ian Wright hailed the performance of Declan Rice since his move to the Emirates and Peru international Oliver Sonne issued a come-and-get-me plea to the Gunners.
Here, Mirror Football rounds up the latest Arsenal news.Arteta lays down City challengeArsenal boss Mikel Arteta has warned rivals Manchester City that his side will push them all the way in the title race.
The Gunners are just ahead of City, with Arteta admitting his side are desperate to finish top.”Very excited. We have done it for nine and a half months now so it’s two weeks to go. We really want to get it done.
We are closer to where we were yesterday and hopefully we can bring that title here,” he said.”If a year is enough to do that [become mature]? But for some it takes five, ten years to achieve that.
But yes, at the end we are trying to do the right things. The energy and the commitment from the boys in everything we do is unbelievable. And hopefully it will pay off.
