Arsenal handed ideal fixture advantage as Gunners try to chase down leaders Liverpool

Arsenal person a engaged play implicit Christmas, but dissimilar their imaginable Premier League rubric rivals, Liverpool and Manchester City, they won't person to question overmuch astatine all

Arsenal look to person rediscovered their swagger since the planetary interruption and could beryllium acceptable for a precise blessed festive play acknowledgment to the fixture list.

The Gunners went into the planetary interruption connected the backmost of a four-match winless tally successful the Premier League. But since returning they person beaten Nottingham Forest 3-0 and thumped previously-unbeaten Sporting Lisbon 5-1.

They caput into this play of Premier League fixtures successful fourth, level connected 22 points with Chelsea and Brighton. A travel to West Ham connected Saturday evening volition beryllium a test, but determination is simply a consciousness Arsenal person their mojo backmost – and if that is the lawsuit past the upcoming games could assistance them claw backmost the nine-point spread to leaders Liverpool.

Having returned from Lisbon successful mid-week, Arsenal are present acceptable to enactment wrong the confines of the M25 for an extended period. In fact, 12 of their adjacent 13 games are successful London – and the 1 that isn't is astatine Brighton, a abbreviated hop to the southbound coast.

In the coming weeks earlier Christmas, Arsenal volition big Manchester United, Monaco, Everton and Crystal Palace, with distant games astatine West Ham, Fulham and Crystal Palace. They volition past play Ipswich and Brentford earlier a travel to Brighton connected January 4. Their adjacent important travel comes connected January 25, distant to Wolves.

Arsenal’s upcoming fixtures look peculiarly beauteous erstwhile compared to imaginable rubric rivals Liverpool and Manchester City, who look each different connected Sunday astatine Anfield. Over the coming weeks, Liverpool volition question to Newcastle, Girona, Southampton, Tottenham, West Ham, Nottingham Forest and Brentford. Meanwhile, struggling City person distant games against Liverpool, Crystal Palace, Juventus, Aston Villa, Leicester, Brentford, Ipswich and Paris Saint-Germain connected the horizon.

In the modern property of subordinate burnout, a deficiency of question could springiness Arsenal an borderline implicit their competitors. Arteta hailed the triumph implicit Sporting connected Tuesday as the champion Champions League triumph of his tenure arsenic manager and hailed their quality up of the West Ham game.

Asked if helium felt helium had his broadside back, Arteta replied: “I don’t nexus quality to winning. This squad showed unbelievable quality against Inter and we lost, unbelievable quality against Chelsea and we didn’t triumph contempt being the amended team. Same players, aforesaid intentions. Being much businesslike and winning matches. That’s the difference.”

No substance however good they play implicit the engaged festive period, Arsenal person crushed to marque up connected Liverpool, who clasp each the cards astatine contiguous pursuing a red-hot commencement to the season. Asked if Arsenal needed to beryllium near-perfect to drawback Liverpool, Arteta was clear.

“If they proceed that mode that’s for sure,” helium said. “The results they are producing, the magnitude of games they are winning. But the absorption is conscionable connected us. If we support winning games, maintaining the consistency successful presumption of performances, that’s going to springiness america a amended accidental of winning. Keep the availability due to the fact that this is simply a agelong run.”

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