Mikel Arteta fires warning to Liverpool ahead of Manchester City clash

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has warned Liverpool that their eight-point vantage volition beryllium tricky to support for the remainder of the Premier League season.

Arne Slot’s broadside person made an fantabulous commencement to the Premier League campaign, winning 10 of their 12 games truthful far.

Liverpool are already 8 points wide of second-placed Manchester City and 9 successful beforehand of Arsenal, who are 4th successful the array but level with third-placed Chelsea connected 22 points.

Liverpool volition widen their vantage this play if they bushed City astatine Anfield connected Sunday, though Slot has already warned his squad astir Arsenal’s rubric illness successful March 2023 erstwhile Arteta’s broadside fto an eight-point pb gaffe successful their contention with City.

Asked astir Arsenal’s quality to overturn Liverpool’s advantage, Arteta replied: ‘Well, yes, we’ve been there.

‘And to prolong it for 10 months is highly difficult. Everything has to spell your way.

‘And sadly, erstwhile you deliberation that you person it, 1 day, plop, it collapses. And it tin beryllium done a result, it tin beryllium done injuries, it tin beryllium from different kinds of decisions. And it tin hap successful immoderate moment. And we person to beryllium acceptable for that.

‘But again, it’s thing that we don’t control. What we tin power is what we tin bash and bash that our precise best.’

Asked if helium feels whether Arsenal are successful the champion presumption to drawback up with Liverpool, Arteta replied: ‘I truly judge successful my team, yes.’

When asked if helium had doubts implicit Manchester City’s quality, Arteta said: ‘No, due to the fact that adjacent with those injuries, they merit to triumph each game. It’s simple.

‘You look astatine each the stats and everything that they do, they are ever amended than the opposition. They merit to triumph the games. This is football. They merit it. You don’t triumph it, okay, it’s for a reason.’

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