‘Over my dead body’ – Arteta not giving up on Premier League title | OneFootball

Mikel Arteta says he still believes Arsenal can win the Premier League title despite sitting 11 points behind Liverpool.

The Gunners’ defeat to West Ham on Saturday and Liverpool’s win over Manchester City on Sunday widened the gap between the two clubs.

It has led to many declaring the title race over, but Arteta hit back at those suggestions.

“It’s been incredibly satisfying to work every day with the players and the coaches and the staff to try to overcome certain situations,” he said.

“If somebody told you at the start of the season by this time you have played five times with a red card, over half an hour in each of those games, and you have lost this amount of players what is the bet that you are in the middle of the table at least? And you are out of the Champions League?

“That’s not the situation. That tells you the resilience, the resources, the ambition that the team have and that every individual has, and that has been probably in my time here, one of the proudest moments to work in that sense.

“The thing is that when you are there, you want more and more and more. I’m not going to stop. Over my dead body. We (cannot) stop thinking that way and stop putting everything we possibly can to increase that probability of us winning and being better than the opponent and hitting that performance level and the standards constantly, regardless of what happens.”

Asked if he genuinely believes Arsenal can still win the league, Arteta added: “If not I will go home then guys.

“Mathematically it’s possible. We are there. Three days ago we were closing the gap and we were one-and-a-half games away. It doesn’t matter. We have to continue to go.

“The difficulty is higher than three days ago but if we want to win the Premier League we’re going to have to do something special, with the circumstances we have, and probably do something that no one else has done in the history of the Premier League.”