When we see Manchester City and Arsenal fighting for first place, it is very exciting. They show the strength of each team and show who will be the winner. This is a very good experience for Arsenal because they can face directly the strength of Manchester City. Arsenal management decided to keep Mikel Arteta because he had shown good performance and was able to compete with Manchester City in the previous match, making Arsenal finish in second place on the standings. With that, Arsenal management finally trusted Mikel Arteta to train Arsenal again and hoped that Arsenal could become champions in the EPL next season.
even though Arteta has had good results to get runners up in these two seasons, for me it won't be enough to guarantee Arsenal will get the EPL title and I have reasons that I think are reasonable.
don't get me wrong, but actually Arsenal is not mentally ready to be a leader in the EPL because competing with Man City is not something that is easy as long as the coaching chair is still occupied by Guardiola and still has Haalanda and KDB, I think Arsenal will continue to lose if they have to compete with Man City and on the one hand, even though Man City will experience a decline in performance, there will definitely be a team other than Arsenal who will get to the top of the standings first and lead the EPL until the season ends.
Incidents like this have happened very often since the past and to be honest, I always doubted Arsenal as a candidate to hold the title in the EPL, and even always excluded it from my betting slip at the end of the season and preferred to bet on another team who would be the title holder at the end of the season.
maybe some people or even Arsenal fans will not agree with my opinion, but the fact is that Arsenal, until the end of last season, was still failing even though they had a very close point difference to Man City, whereas the previous season they also had the experience of being runners up, which should be a very good lesson worth getting a degree.
EPL title will only be a dream that will not come true if Arsenal cannot maintain consistency from the start of the season to the end of the season.