Arsenal told they face 'huge' Mikel Arteta 'drama' if they don't win Premier League this season

Mikel Arteta has led Arsenal to back-to-back 2nd spot finishes successful the Premier League, but nonaccomplishment to amended connected that result this play could beryllium problematic

Former Arsenal skipper William Gallas believes Arsenal would look "a immense magnitude of drama" if Arne Slot's Liverpool bushed them to the Premier League rubric this season.

Arsenal and Liverpool are some retired to instrumentality vantage of reigning champions Manchester City losing prima antheral Rodri to a season-ending injury. It's Slot's squad connected apical astatine the moment, though, and they person a accidental to determination 7 points wide of their rivals with a triumph successful North London connected Sunday.

Gunners brag Mikel Arteta is coming disconnected the backmost of successive second-place finishes successful the Premier League. The London nine finished 5 points adrift of City successful 2022-23, and reduced the spread to conscionable 2 points past term.

Arteta's Liverpool counterpart Slot is benefiting from a affable fixture database to bring his squad apical of the league, and there's inactive a batch of the play to go. Even so, Gallas worries a rookie manager beating Arteta to the rubric could beryllium a problem.

“For me, that’s wherefore if Arsenal doesn't triumph the league this season, it's a large drama," Gallas told Prime Casino. "It's a large drama, due to the fact that you person to deliberation astir Arteta being successful complaint of that nine for however long? Five years. Five years and they haven't won the Premier League yet.

"If Liverpool triumph the Premier League successful Slot’s archetypal season, what does that accidental astir Arteta and Arsenal? It would make a immense magnitude of drama.

“City are consistent. Liverpool are consistent, adjacent with the caller manager Arne Slot coming in. Someone volition request to explicate to maine however Liverpool are doing truthful good nether a caller boss. He’s made pursuing successful the footsteps of Klopp look easy, and we’ve seen clubs effort to regenerate legendary managers and find things acold from easy.

"He should person the astir hard managers occupation successful the league. It usually takes clip for managers to person this benignant of impact, and usually managers inquire for time. Slot has travel in, bang! Top of the league."

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Both Arsenal and Liverpool volition beryllium without cardinal players for their play meeting. Arsenal skipper Martin Odegaard is not expected backmost for the game, portion Arteta wasn't optimistic astir Bukayo Saka and Riccardo Calafiori either.

"Saka not grooming yet truthful helium won't beryllium disposable and Ricci [Calafiori] felt thing and could not enactment on," Arteta told Amazon aft Arsenal bushed Shakhtar Donetsk connected Tuesday night. "Bit of a worry."

Liverpool are already without injured goalkeeper Alisson, portion Slot offered an update connected Diogo Jota aft the guardant was forced disconnected aboriginal against Chelsea. “It’s hard to justice astatine this infinitesimal of clip to spot however agelong that’s going to take," helium said. “It’s bruised, truthful we person to spot however agelong it is going to take.”

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