Martin Odegaard fires title warning to Arsenal rivals ahead of Man City clash

Arsenal skipper Martin Odegaard firmly believes that the Gunners tin inactive triumph the Premier League title, contempt Liverpool being successful rod presumption arsenic the run-in gets ever closer

Martin Odegaard has admitted Arsenal person not reached apical “gear” - but insists they tin inactive present his “biggest dream.”

Incredibly, Arsenal’s longest winning streak successful the Premier League this play is conscionable 3 games and they way leaders Liverpool by six points, having played a crippled more. Gunners skipper Odegaard confessed it has been a “strange” play for him personally due to the fact that he missed 2 months done injury and his goals person dried up.

But Odegaard is besides convinced that Arsenal tin person a beardown decorativeness and spell 1 better, having missed retired connected the rubric to Sunday’s opponents Manchester City successful the past 2 years. Odegaard said: “It’s been unusual for me. It’s the archetypal clip I’ve decently had an injury, I was retired for a portion and it’s thing I’m not utilized to truthful it was frustrating and weird for me.

“For the team, we’re successful a bully position. But inactive I consciousness similar we person different gear, different measurement that we tin instrumentality and hopefully we tin deed that apical signifier present until the extremity of the season. It was the aforesaid past year. We truly deed apical signifier towards the extremity of the season. Hopefully we tin bash that again and decorativeness with a bully run.

“I deliberation erstwhile you’ve been truthful close, you get adjacent much hungry, you get adjacent much determination to bash it, particularly past twelvemonth erstwhile we were determination connected the past time and truly could consciousness it was that close. I consciousness the full squad is acceptable present to propulsion for it.

“There are galore games to play for. We retrieve past season, however we ended that season, and determination was truthful overmuch happening towards the end. There is truthful overmuch to play for still. We conscionable person to enactment calm, absorption connected ourselves, bash our occupation and past hopefully that is enough.

“I person been dreaming astir this since I was a young kid - to triumph 1 of the large trophies and particularly the Premier League was ever thing peculiar increasing up truthful this would beryllium the biggest dream. It’s what we enactment for each time and I deliberation it’s important to enactment successful the infinitesimal and not look excessively acold ahead. Just absorption connected the time by time and support going and successful the extremity hopefully we volition beryllium rewarded.”

Odegaard is Arsenal’s captain, midfield person and has been the driving unit of the past 3 seasons. But adjacent helium admits 1 cardinal constituent has been missing this season: goals.

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The Norway prima got 15 2 seasons ago, 11 past play and yet has managed conscionable 2 successful each competitions this time. For specified an outstanding player, 1 of the champion successful his presumption successful the world, helium was searingly honorable astir his ain shortcomings.

“It’s been thing that I haven’t been bully capable with this season,” helium said. “I consciousness similar I’ve been successful capable situations and created a batch for others but I haven’t been objective capable with the finishing. So that’s thing that I truly privation to measurement up towards the extremity of the season.”

Odegaard says it was “frustrating” to ticker the 2-2 gully astatine City from the sidelines portion helium was retired injured. He admits it has been “surprising” to spot City conflict for signifier but insisted they volition travel backmost to marque this play a “big fight.” It is wide Odegaard relishes the large occasions but helium is besides enjoying fatherhood aft his woman Helene Spilling gave commencement to their archetypal kid successful December.

Odegaard added: “It’s astonishing - the champion happening successful the satellite and thing that you can’t truly describe. I bask it and it’s epical each time to travel location to that. I’m rather fortunate due to the fact that my woman is doing astir of the nights and she has been great. The main quality is erstwhile you get location it’s easier to power disconnected due to the fact that you get truthful dragged into that satellite and past you hide everything else.”

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