“We have regrets because we had a chance to finish top of the league and apart from that, it is hard for me to compare with City”, Wenger said.
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A point moves both clubs slightly closer to continental certainty, and given their recent form, I wouldn’t be confident backing either of them to win such an important game.
Wenger has been struck by how there has been a kind of equalising effect in the Premier League this season.
“They are a team who is expected to win the league every year with the investment they have, so they must be in a similar position”.
“No one wants to be in the Europa League until the semi-final maybe”.
So at least one of the Premier League’s blue-chip clubs is facing the “disaster” of missing out on the Champions League over the next eight days.
“I can not tell you anything now (about any Arsenal interest)”.
But disaster, as Pellegrini himself termed it, could be around the corner.
Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta could leave the club to take up a coaching role at Manchester City, Arsene Wenger has confirmed.
You’d forgive Arsenal fans for approaching the prospect of the transfer market with a rather glass-half-empty outlook, considering the fact they did not bring a single senior outfield player past year. “To get our players back, we made a schedule”, he said. You can’t create artificial positions. “The big question mark is what happened with Leicester could happen again with a different team”.
Although Bayern Munich and Manchester City are in the running, Juve have to be in there too.
City will head into their clash with Arsenal on a sour note as they were stunned 4-2 by Southampton last Sunday.
It is not simply coincidence or bad luck that City have not beaten anybody in the top six; in their nine games against the division’s best performing sides, they have barely had a sniff of victory. On Sunday, we can achieve that.
“In the big games away from home we conceded three at Liverpool, United and West Ham – and almost always from leading positions, which then makes it hard to win the league”.
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“We will be going until the end of the season”.
