They also have a game in hand – having 11 to play compared to the 10 of each the top three – and captain Kompany feels all is still to play for.
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After Saturday’s matches, both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur will have just nine games left to play in the 2015/2016 Barclays Premier League season, as will Leicester City.
“We had a fantastic manager in charge and some very good players as well, and I think the same with Leicester”.
Spurs lost their grip on the Premier League crown after being beaten by a well-organised West Ham team on Wednesday, the defeat leaves Spurs three points behind Leicester in second place.
“But it is so important you win every game”.
It’s a match that come easily come down to one mistake or moment of brilliance by one player on either side. Wenger’s men have lost their last two Premier League games and are plagued with injuries right now.
If it is not already tempting to believe their hopes of a first title in 12 years are nearly over, it will become hard to avoid that conclusion should they lose to Spurs.
I can not see Arsenal winning this one and Pochettino’s strong record against Wenger and at White Hart Lane should tell.
Kolarov added: “United are now on the same points as us so we have to be careful about what is coming up on our backs as well”.
Arsenal, who are a further three points behind, are the sole team in the top three to be a regular presence in the league’s upper echelons, something which Pochettino has dismissed as irrelevant.
“I think we can win the Premier League with the players we have but, that said, we lack a certain hunger”.
After Ramsey gave Arsenal the lead heading into the halftime break, Toby Alderweireld and Kane scored two-minutes apart to give Tottenham a 2-1 lead shortly after the hour mark. Fortunately, City have the best chance possible to get back on track when they host bottom-of-the-table Aston Villa, who oddly managed to hold them to a clean sheet in November. After beating Leicester City a few weeks back, I thought that they were nearly favorites again but a poor run of form since has caused them to fall back by quite a bit.
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Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino believes Arsene Wenger is a “special” manager to have lasted so many years at Arsenal.
