Mikel Arteta hit the defiant tone after the damaged weekend in the premier League Race, saying Arsenal will give up the fight “through my dead body.”
The shooters missed the opportunity to close the Liverpool gap on Saturday, Losing to West Ham, before the Red Company Arne slot beats Manchester City the next day to go 11 points clean at the top of the table.
Many commentators received Liverpool title after victory – but Arteta is not such a mood for going out of the race.
“It was amazing to work every day to work every day with players and staff to try to overcome certain situations,” he said in front of the game on Wednesday against Nottingham forest.
“If someone tells you at the beginning of the season that you have played five times with a red card and you lost this amount of players (on injuries), what is the role you are in the middle of the table at least and outside the champion league.
“But it’s not a situation and it tells you about resilience and ambition to have a team. It’s probably one of my pride moments in that sense. When you’re there, want more.
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“And through my dead body, we will stop thinking that way and put everything we can improve that.”
When asked if he believed that Arsenal could still win the premier league, Arteta replied, “If we can’t, maybe I could go home.
“Mathematically, it is possible that you are there and you have to play every game. Three days we could close the gap and you are one and afternoon, but it doesn’t matter. We have to continue to go.
“If you want to win a premier league, you need to do something special. If you want to beat it with the circumstances we have, you probably need to do something that no one else did in the history of the Prime Minister.”
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Movement to play against West Ham, Arsenal was undefeated in 15 Premier League games. Despite the stoppage against the hammer, Artet was fierce to point out that his side harmonized Liverpool during that period in severe circumstances.
He said, “In the previous 15 games we won 10 and drew five, exactly the same as Liverpool with the same goal, which is plus 23.
“We were extremely consistent in the last three and a half months, given everything we went through and created that momentum.
“It was that weekend we need to start again, nothing different from the previous 15 and we have a defeat. They are trying to make momentum, and we are so placed the circumstances that we had, it was very difficult to take.
“The reality is that there are so many games to play that you have to go back to it. We have levels and consistency and hunger to go again and we will do it on Wednesday.”
