Jamie Carragher names three players who mean Arsenal will NOT win Premier League

Mikel Arteta's Arsenal mislaid crushed connected Premier League leaders Liverpool implicit the play and erstwhile Reds defender Jamie Carragher has laid bare the Gunners' shortcomings

Arsenal's rubric hopes were dealt a caller stroke connected Saturday, and Jamie Carragher has named 3 elder stars who volition basal successful the mode of the Gunners catching league leaders Liverpool.

Saturday felt to immoderate similar a pivotal time successful the rubric race. Two precocious goals from Darwin Nunez were capable for Liverpool to interruption down Brentford's resistance, and Arsenal's hopes of responding with a triumph of their ain fell short.

Mikel Arteta's broadside went 2-0 up aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional against Aston Villa, lone for Youri Tielemans and Ollie Watkins to rescue a constituent for the visitors. While the effect owed a batch to the Gunners switching disconnected astatine the back, Carragher believes the attacking options successful North London could beryllium the deciding factor.

Bukayo Saka was already missing with a hamstring wounded erstwhile team-mate Gabriel Jesus was ruled retired for the remainder of the run with an ACL problem. And Carragher isn't convinced what's near of the guardant enactment is bully enough.

Speaking connected Sky Sports' Monday Night Football, Carragher was joined by erstwhile Arsenal prima Emmanuel Petit. French midfielder Petit was portion of the broadside that hauled successful Manchester United to triumph the league successful 1997-98, but Carragher dismissed immoderate accidental of a repeat.

"I'll springiness you 3 reasons [why Arsenal can't triumph the league],” Carragher said. "They had [Marc] Overmars, [Nicolas] Anelka and Dennis Bergkamp. This team, astatine the moment, is playing with [Gabriel] Martinelli, [Leandro] Trossard and [Kai] Havertz, it's not enough."

Martinelli and Havertz were some connected people connected Saturday, with the second besides seeing a extremity disallowed for handball. However, the 3 players mentioned by Carragher person conscionable 18 league goals betwixt them this term.

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After his team's latest setback, Arsenal brag Arteta reflected connected falling further down Liverpool. "I mean, the subs made the interaction and they [Liverpool] managed to alteration the game," helium told reporters.

"And connected our side, it was the other adjacent though aft conceding the 2 goals precise adjacent to each other, the information was due to the fact that I knew fractional the squad was, that we could spell downhill due to the fact that we were physically drained. Suddenly, the squad recovered different cogwheel to spell again and conscionable enactment Aston Villa successful their container and spell and spell again, trying to find the extremity that we haven’t been capable to people astatine the end."

Arsenal won't person overmuch clip to recover, with Arteta's men returning to enactment successful the Champions League connected Wednesday. They invited Dinamo Zagreb to the Emirates Stadium, and a triumph would determination them 1 measurement person to a top-eight decorativeness successful the league phase.

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