Arsenal: Mikel Arteta says Gunners will give up Premier League title fight ‘over my dead body’ with Liverpool 11 points clear | Football News happymamay

Michael Artita photographed a challenge tone after a harmful weekend in the Premier League title, saying that Arsenal will give up the battle “on my bodies”.

Gunners missed the opportunity to bridge the gap over Liverpool on Saturday, lost to West Ham, before Reds defeated ARNE Slot to Manchester City the next day to turn to 11 points at the top of the table.

Many commentators admitted the Liverpool title after their victory – but Arteta is not in a mood to get out of the race.

“He was an incredibly patient to work every day with players and employees to try to overcome certain situations,” he said before Wednesday against Nottingham Forest.

“If someone tells you at the beginning of the season that by this time, I played five times with a red card with more than half an hour in each game and lost this amount of the players [to injury]What is the bet that you are in the middle of the table at least and outside the Champions League.

“But this is not the situation and tells you about the flexibility and ambition that the team has. Perhaps this was one of my most proud moments in this sense. When you are there, you want more.

“On my dead body, we will stop thinking this way and put everything we can to improve.”

When asked if he believed that Arsenal could still win the Premier League, Arteta replied: “If we could not, I may also go home.

“From a sporting point of view, it is possible, you are there and you have to play every game. Three days ago, we can fill the gap as you move away from games and a half, but it doesn’t matter. We must continue to go.

“If you want to win the Premier League, you should do something special. If you want to win it with the conditions we have, you are likely to do something that no other person has done in the history of the Premier League.”

With the match against West Ham, Arsenal was not defeated in 15 Premier League matches. Despite the setback against the hammers, Arteta was keen to refer to how his team was identical to Liverpool during that period in difficult circumstances.

He said: “In the previous 15 match, we won 10 and we drew five, just like Liverpool with the same goal teams, which is 23.

“We have been very consistent during the past three months, taking into account everything we have gone through and generated this momentum.

“It was at the end of this week where we have to go again, nothing is different from the previous fifteen and we got a defeat. Moreover, they won that when you tried to build the momentum, and we put a lot in these circumstances we had, it was very difficult to Take.

“The truth is that there are many games that you must play to return to. We have levels, consistency and hunger to go again and this is what we will do on Wednesday.”