Arsenal to win the Premier League if they defeat Liverpool

Gary Neville believes Arsenal can win the Premier League if they earn all three points against Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool at Anfield.

Arsenal leads Manchester City by eight points, but their opponents have a game in hand and can cut the difference to five points on Saturday evening when they tie at Southampton. Despite Arsenal being eight points ahead of Pep Guardiola’s team, Neville has often predicted that Man City will win the Premier League this season.

Manchester City defeated Arsenal 3-1 at the Emirates in February. Since then, the Gunners have won seven consecutive Premier League games. Mikel Arteta’s team are on track to win the club’s first league title since 2004, and Neville believes they can take a huge step towards that this weekend.

“If Arsenal go to Anfield and win, I’d say definitely it will be their title because the confidence from that will be unbelievable. If they lose at Anfield it then becomes a really tight race” Sky Sports pundit Neville said.

“Our manager (Sir Alex Ferguson) would say to us if you’re playing Liverpool away at this time of year and you’re going for the title, and you win, you win the league. Quite often that proved to be the case.” “About two or three months ago, I thought Arsenal would finish 10 or 15 points behind Man City. That’s not going to be the case now, obviously. It’s 50-50 now. If Arsenal win at Liverpool, they definitely become favourites, but there’s still a long way to go. Arsenal have to go to City and Newcastle, and they’re going to be very difficult games.”

The Gunners beat Leeds United 4-1 last weekend. Mikel Arteta insisted that he “trusts” all of his squad to perform when needed.

“First of all the players have to feel trust, that we trust them. They need to feel that confident” Arteta said in an interview after the match.

“The players have to have the chance and they need to be preparing to perform in the right way to have the chance like Rob Holding did and to actually perform.

“The way they live, the way they challenge themselves is exceptional. It’s not easy to do that when you just throw Rob in after a few months of inactivity at this level, but I thought he was exceptional.”

“I’m really happy. We need everybody. We’ve had long-term injuries and the team needs to somehow find a way to keep winning and keep performing.” – Manager of the Gunners encourages.