Neville on what Arsenal have to believepublished at 09:16 BST
Image source, Getty Images“Arenal can win the title next weekend at the Etihad,” said Gary Neville on his podcast.
“Maybe I’ve got more faith in Arsenal than Arsenal have got in themselves, but when you are in a title race, you’re six games out and you’ve lost a football match, you’ve got to put it into perspective.
“I have thought for a number of years with this Arsenal team that they’ve got to go and win a game that shakes the world. They’ve got to go to City next week and win.”
That’s the carrot for Arsenal, but Neville warns, as if he needed to, that it won’t be easy.
“Did they really ever expect that they were going to be handed their first title on a plate by Pep Guardiola and this Manchester City team, or by the Premier League? It doesn’t happen like that,” added the former Manchester United defender.
“You don’t win your first title by running away with it by 26 points – it just doesn’t happen. That’s not reality. It’s always going to be a struggle, and there’s probably been a couple of bad experiences in the previous seasons in getting to this point.
“So everything that’s happened to them, if they can normalise it and feel that ‘this is what we would have expected, no one was just going to hand it to us on a plate and we were going to basically sail over the line and do a victory lap. It’s not going to work like that, and this is what it should be’.
“That’s what Arsenal have got to believe this week.”
