Arsenal boss, Mikel Arteta, refused to concede the defeat during the race for the title of the Premier League despite that Liverpool extends his advance at 11 points during the weekend.
The Gunners underwent a harmful defeat of 1-0 at home against West Ham on Saturday, allowing Liverpool to increase their domination against the Northern Londoners with a 2-0 victory at Manchester City a day later.
Arteta’s men played one less game than the Reds and will try to try to reduce the gap when they visit Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.
When asked if Liverpool’s advance was too much to derive, Arteta replied: “On my corpse”, while insistence will continue to fight until it is not mathematically possible .
He added: “Otherwise, I will go home. Mathematically, it is possible. You are there, you have to play each game, suddenly three days ago, we could fill a gap and you are like “you are one and a half play”. Regardless, we must continue to leave.
“The difficulty is more than three days, but if you are going to win the Premier League, you have to do something special.
“If you are going to win the Premier League with the circumstances we have, you will probably have to do something that no one else has done in the history of the Premier League.”
“Otherwise, I would go home” 🏡
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Arteta: “very disappointing weekend”
Liverpool’s draw with Aston Villa a few days earlier had given Arsenal the possibility of reducing the gap, but instead, they are now clinging to the reigning race after having undergone their first championship defeat in 15 games With the kind authorization of the goal of Jarrod Bowen.
Arteta said: “It was a very disappointing weekend. The 15 previous games, we won 10 and fired five – exactly the same as Liverpool with exactly the same goal difference.
“We have therefore been extremely consistent in the past three months, given everything we have experienced.
“We have generated this momentum and this is this weekend when we have to leave, but we had a defeat. In addition to that [Liverpool] earn.
“When you try to beat this momentum and we put so much with the circumstances we have, it was really difficult to take. The reality is that there are so many games to play and you have to come back. »»
If the defeat of West Ham was his most frustrating, Arteta said: “I don’t know, it’s not a frustration.
“It is a feeling of knowing how much we had put in Liverpool form are in it.
“It was difficult to take, especially at home where we were so consistent.”
