Former Liverpool star dismisses Arsenal’s Premier League title hopes

Former Liverpool prima Dietmar Hamann is backing the Reds to bushed Manchester City to the Premier League rubric this season, dismissing Arsenal’s chances of glory.

After beating Southampton connected Saturday Manchester City returned to the apical of the table, 1 constituent up of Liverpool and already 5 wide of Arsenal.

The large crippled of the play saw the Gunners hosting Liverpool, a crippled which finished 2-2 and allowed City to summation an vantage successful the aboriginal stages of the rubric race.

Hamann remains assured successful his erstwhile club, believing that the season-ending wounded for Rodri volition yet outgo Manchester City, portion helium simply does not fancy Arsenal’s chances of outlasting their 2 main rivals.

‘We cognize they’ve got a batch of prime inactive successful their team,’ Hamann told talkSPORT of Manchester City. ‘The question volition be, tin they past a play without Rodri? Because he’s the heartbeat of the team.

‘If you haven’t got the antiaircraft stability, if you haven’t got the equilibrium successful your team, it besides affects the violative play of your club.

‘This is wherefore I somewhat favour Liverpool. I deliberation Liverpool person got a large accidental this play to spell 1 better.

‘Arsenal played retired of their tegument the past 2 seasons, couldn’t get the occupation done, truthful I don’t deliberation they volition beryllium a rubric victor this season. I deliberation it’ll beryllium betwixt City and Liverpool.

‘And astatine the moment, I’ve got to accidental I somewhat favour Liverpool due to the fact that of the lack of Rodri.’

Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta was surely not giving up connected the rubric contention aft the gully with Liverpool connected Sunday.

‘I’m precise arrogant of the squad particularly with the concern that we are going done astatine the moment, and astir apt cannot imagine,’ Arteta told a post-match property conference.

‘But wide I think, particularly archetypal half, it was a full domination, we were really, truly good, truly sharp, truly efficient, truly determined and the effect should’ve been bigger.

‘Without conceding anything, fundamentally we gave 2 goals distant which is the disappointing part. And the information we couldn’t spot the crippled off, particularly looking astatine ourselves, the 2 things that we didn’t bash peculiar good and evidently astir different aspects.

‘Well you don’t privation to beryllium successful that position, you privation to beryllium 5 points up but this is wherever we are, and again the squad it’s alive, the squad wants it. I consciousness it each azygous day, the players that cannot play they are upset that they are not playing, the ones that get injured, the ones that are determination successful a bully moment, things volition crook up and we’ll beryllium successful a amended spot but we are surely there.’

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