Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has refused to give up on the Premier League title race despite falling behind after a 1-0 defeat at home to West Ham United at the weekend, Afrosport reports.
Liverpool capitalised on Arsenal’s slip-up by beating Manchester City 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday to create an 11-point gap having played a game more.
The Gunners travel to the City Ground to face third-placed Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night and Arteta says he will not surrender until it is mathematically impossible.
“It’s been incredibly satisfying to work every day with the players and the coaches and the staff to try to overcome certain situations.
“So if somebody tells 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’s the bet you are in the middle of the table at least, you know, and you are out of the Champions League?
“That’s not the situation. So that tells you the resilience, the resources, the ambition that the team has that every individual has. And that has been probably in my time one of the proudest moment to work in in that sense. The thing is that when you are there, you want more, and you want more, and you want more.
“And I am not going to stop, over my dead body, we stop thinking that way, and putting everything that we possibly can to increase that probability of us winning and being better than the opponent, and hitting that performance and those standards constantly, regardless of what happens.”
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Arsenal defeated Nottingham Forest 3-0 in the reverse fixture at the Emirates Stadium and will go into Wednesday’s fixture without left-back Myles Lewis-Skelly who received a straight red card in the defeat to West Ham.
