William Saliba responds to claims Arsenal are already out of title race after Newcastle defeat

Tom OlverPublished Nov 2, 2024, 3:33pm|Updated Nov 2, 2024, 3:34pm

William Saliba insists Arsenal’s Premier League rubric hopes stay intact contempt the nine suffering yet another setback distant to Newcastle this afternoon.

Having pushed Manchester City to the last time of past season, an out-of-sorts Arsenal are yet to deed their stride this term, winning conscionable 5 of their 10 opening matches successful the English apical flight.

The Gunners headed to St James’ Park successful hopeless request of a morale-boosting triumph – aft dropping points successful their past 2 matches – but Alexander Isak had different ideas, heading location the lone extremity of the crippled successful the 12th minute.

The visitors simply had nary reply and managed conscionable 1 changeable connected people crossed the entirety of the contest, with the Magpies deservedly securing maximum points to determination to ninth successful the table.

Mikel Arteta’s men, meanwhile, missed the accidental to adjacent the spread connected top-of-the-table Manchester City and way the champions by 5 points. Pep Guardiola’s men volition look to summation their pb astatine Bournemouth this afternoon.

‘We are each a spot bittersweet due to the fact that we wanted to triumph today,’ Arsenal defender Saliba told TNT Sports soon aft the last whistle successful Newcastle.

‘Unfortunately we didn’t and we didn’t play the crippled we wanted to play. We deserved to suffer contiguous I think.

‘I deliberation we didn’t play however we wanted to play and they were bully arsenic well. It’s OK, we are focused connected the adjacent week and it is not finished.’

Saliba called connected Arsenal’s squad to regroup and ‘stay together’ to guarantee the wheels bash not travel disconnected their rubric complaint astatine this aboriginal signifier of the campaign.

‘I deliberation it’s a bully goal, a truly bully transverse and bully finishing but we tin ever bash better. Today they scored aboriginal and we were not capable to equalise,’ the Frenchman added.

‘We person to instrumentality together. Last play we had 1 play similar and we request to enactment unneurotic and person the assurance to get out.

‘We each judge we volition travel back.’

On his ain performance, Saliba continued: ‘I person to beryllium amended than my past game. I was not truthful good.

‘I person to beryllium backmost astatine my bully level. After I volition beryllium bully we volition amended but I person to enactment to get backmost to my champion level.’

Arsenal volition look to get backmost to winning ways connected Wednesday nighttime erstwhile they instrumentality to Champions League enactment distant to Inter Milan astatine the San Siro.

The Gunners past caput to bitter rivals Chelsea for what promises to beryllium an intriguing London derby astatine Stamford Bridge adjacent weekend.

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