Arsenal’s manager Mikel Arteta has expressed the resolve of his team to beat Man City in Wednesday’s EPL match – but he argued it would not define the season.
According to him, his team appreciated how crucial it would be to win, but he seemed to feel the match would not decide the season.
AFP quotes him as saying at a pre-match news conference on Tuesday:
“If we win tomorrow night we haven’t won, for sure,” the 41-year-old Spaniard said.
“It would shift the percentage a little bit but five games in this league with the games we still have to play, it’s very tricky.
“We knew from the beginning that City was the team to beat with Liverpool because of what those teams have done in the past few years.
“We wanted to close that gap as much as we could and we’re toe-to-toe with them.
“We know it is going to be a massive game. Is it going to define the season? The answer is no.”
“It is going to be a tough night and challenge, yes, but the opportunity is incredible for us.
“We knew from the beginning — you want to win a Premier League, you have to go to Spurs and you have to beat them, you have to go to Chelsea and you have to beat them.
“This is what we have been doing, that is why we are here and now we have to go to City and we have to beat them — you want to be champion, you have to win these matches, it is as simple as that.”
