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Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of being in the Premier League and Champions League finales – as he believes his team can get “very close” to lifting a first top-flight title in 22 years by beating Fulham, live on Sky Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe Gunners could go six points clear of second-placed Manchester City on Saturday Night Football<\/em>though Pep Guardiola’s side will have two games in hand, starting against Everton on Monday night, which is also live on Sky.<\/p>\nArsenal had a nine-point lead at one stage of the Premier League season, but a dip in form during April brought City back into what is effectively a neck-and-neck contest.<\/p>\nMany have claimed Arsenal are ‘bottling’ another Premier League title race after three straight second-placed finishes, but asked by Sky Sports<\/em> how he wants his players to act in these crucial weeks, Arteta said: “I tell them: love it.<\/p>\n“If you want to win the Premier League and want to win the Champions League, what’s going to happen? You’re going to lose a match and they’re going to destroy you. That’s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says his players have a hunger to win as they head into their final four matches of the Premier League title race<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“You want to be there? Love to be there. When you win, love it. When you lose or you don’t play your best – and there’s going to be games where you lose the ball – love it. You will become better.<\/p>\n“There’s no other way. If you want to be at the very top, people are waiting there. It’s normal. It’s natural.<\/p>\n“And there’s only going to be one winner. The rest? Are they not good enough? Come on, if somebody believes that then there’s something wrong.”<\/p>\nHow does Arteta deal with the noise?<\/h3>\nArteta was also asked how he deals with the stress of a Premier League title race.<\/p>\nThe Arsenal manager also highlighted how he only opts to listen to criticism from those who want the best for the club – and that any other opinions are worthless.<\/p>\n“In my (playing) career I never read so much – especially from people who did not want the best for us,” said Arteta.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Gunners could go six points clear of second-placed Manchester City on Saturday Night Football<\/em>though Pep Guardiola’s side will have two games in hand, starting against Everton on Monday night, which is also live on Sky.<\/p>\nArsenal had a nine-point lead at one stage of the Premier League season, but a dip in form during April brought City back into what is effectively a neck-and-neck contest.<\/p>\nMany have claimed Arsenal are ‘bottling’ another Premier League title race after three straight second-placed finishes, but asked by Sky Sports<\/em> how he wants his players to act in these crucial weeks, Arteta said: “I tell them: love it.<\/p>\n“If you want to win the Premier League and want to win the Champions League, what’s going to happen? You’re going to lose a match and they’re going to destroy you. That’s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says his players have a hunger to win as they head into their final four matches of the Premier League title race<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“You want to be there? Love to be there. When you win, love it. When you lose or you don’t play your best – and there’s going to be games where you lose the ball – love it. You will become better.<\/p>\n“There’s no other way. If you want to be at the very top, people are waiting there. It’s normal. It’s natural.<\/p>\n“And there’s only going to be one winner. The rest? Are they not good enough? Come on, if somebody believes that then there’s something wrong.”<\/p>\nHow does Arteta deal with the noise?<\/h3>\nArteta was also asked how he deals with the stress of a Premier League title race.<\/p>\nThe Arsenal manager also highlighted how he only opts to listen to criticism from those who want the best for the club – and that any other opinions are worthless.<\/p>\n“In my (playing) career I never read so much – especially from people who did not want the best for us,” said Arteta.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Arsenal had a nine-point lead at one stage of the Premier League season, but a dip in form during April brought City back into what is effectively a neck-and-neck contest.<\/p>\n
Many have claimed Arsenal are ‘bottling’ another Premier League title race after three straight second-placed finishes, but asked by Sky Sports<\/em> how he wants his players to act in these crucial weeks, Arteta said: “I tell them: love it.<\/p>\n“If you want to win the Premier League and want to win the Champions League, what’s going to happen? You’re going to lose a match and they’re going to destroy you. That’s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says his players have a hunger to win as they head into their final four matches of the Premier League title race<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“You want to be there? Love to be there. When you win, love it. When you lose or you don’t play your best – and there’s going to be games where you lose the ball – love it. You will become better.<\/p>\n“There’s no other way. If you want to be at the very top, people are waiting there. It’s normal. It’s natural.<\/p>\n“And there’s only going to be one winner. The rest? Are they not good enough? Come on, if somebody believes that then there’s something wrong.”<\/p>\nHow does Arteta deal with the noise?<\/h3>\nArteta was also asked how he deals with the stress of a Premier League title race.<\/p>\nThe Arsenal manager also highlighted how he only opts to listen to criticism from those who want the best for the club – and that any other opinions are worthless.<\/p>\n“In my (playing) career I never read so much – especially from people who did not want the best for us,” said Arteta.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“If you want to win the Premier League and want to win the Champions League, what’s going to happen? You’re going to lose a match and they’re going to destroy you. That’s it.<\/p>\n
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n
\n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says his players have a hunger to win as they head into their final four matches of the Premier League title race<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“You want to be there? Love to be there. When you win, love it. When you lose or you don’t play your best – and there’s going to be games where you lose the ball – love it. You will become better.<\/p>\n“There’s no other way. If you want to be at the very top, people are waiting there. It’s normal. It’s natural.<\/p>\n“And there’s only going to be one winner. The rest? Are they not good enough? Come on, if somebody believes that then there’s something wrong.”<\/p>\nHow does Arteta deal with the noise?<\/h3>\nArteta was also asked how he deals with the stress of a Premier League title race.<\/p>\nThe Arsenal manager also highlighted how he only opts to listen to criticism from those who want the best for the club – and that any other opinions are worthless.<\/p>\n“In my (playing) career I never read so much – especially from people who did not want the best for us,” said Arteta.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n <\/div>\n Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says his players have a hunger to win as they head into their final four matches of the Premier League title race<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“You want to be there? Love to be there. When you win, love it. When you lose or you don’t play your best – and there’s going to be games where you lose the ball – love it. You will become better.<\/p>\n“There’s no other way. If you want to be at the very top, people are waiting there. It’s normal. It’s natural.<\/p>\n“And there’s only going to be one winner. The rest? Are they not good enough? Come on, if somebody believes that then there’s something wrong.”<\/p>\nHow does Arteta deal with the noise?<\/h3>\nArteta was also asked how he deals with the stress of a Premier League title race.<\/p>\nThe Arsenal manager also highlighted how he only opts to listen to criticism from those who want the best for the club – and that any other opinions are worthless.<\/p>\n“In my (playing) career I never read so much – especially from people who did not want the best for us,” said Arteta.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says his players have a hunger to win as they head into their final four matches of the Premier League title race<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“You want to be there? Love to be there. When you win, love it. When you lose or you don’t play your best – and there’s going to be games where you lose the ball – love it. You will become better.<\/p>\n“There’s no other way. If you want to be at the very top, people are waiting there. It’s normal. It’s natural.<\/p>\n“And there’s only going to be one winner. The rest? Are they not good enough? Come on, if somebody believes that then there’s something wrong.”<\/p>\nHow does Arteta deal with the noise?<\/h3>\nArteta was also asked how he deals with the stress of a Premier League title race.<\/p>\nThe Arsenal manager also highlighted how he only opts to listen to criticism from those who want the best for the club – and that any other opinions are worthless.<\/p>\n“In my (playing) career I never read so much – especially from people who did not want the best for us,” said Arteta.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“You want to be there? Love to be there. When you win, love it. When you lose or you don’t play your best – and there’s going to be games where you lose the ball – love it. You will become better.<\/p>\n
“There’s no other way. If you want to be at the very top, people are waiting there. It’s normal. It’s natural.<\/p>\n
“And there’s only going to be one winner. The rest? Are they not good enough? Come on, if somebody believes that then there’s something wrong.”<\/p>\n
Arteta was also asked how he deals with the stress of a Premier League title race.<\/p>\n
The Arsenal manager also highlighted how he only opts to listen to criticism from those who want the best for the club – and that any other opinions are worthless.<\/p>\n
“In my (playing) career I never read so much – especially from people who did not want the best for us,” said Arteta.<\/p>\n
\n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n <\/div>\n Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Paul Merson says ‘nervous’ Arsenal are a tough watch as the hunt for the Premier League title continues.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n‘Beat Fulham and we’re very, very close’<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“I’m really curious. When somebody wants the best for me and has an opinion, I open myself up and be ruthless. No pain and I gain a lot of things.<\/p>\n
“But I really need to feel that the person wants the best for us, the team and the club. If that’s genuine, that’s great.<\/p>\n
“But if it’s somebody who’s there to damage you, with no purpose, then I don’t think they’re worth your time.”<\/p>\n
\n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n <\/div>\n Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Jamie Carragher believes Fulham possess the ability to pose a stumbling block in Arsenal’s charge for the title.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\nBut Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Saturday 2nd May 5:00pm\n <\/span>\n <\/p>\n Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\nWatch Arsenal vs Fulham live on Sky Sports’ Saturday Night Football this weekend from 5pm, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal players to “love” the noise and the pressure of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Premier League title race is very, very close – and it will come down to goal difference if both Arsenal and City win their remaining matches this season.<\/p>\n
But Arteta has appeared to put special emphasis on Saturday’s game with Fulham, believing victory would get them “very, very close” to the trophy.<\/p>\n
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Kick off 5:30pm\n <\/span><\/p>\n
“Against Newcastle there were five games to go – and that was game one,” said Arteta. “Now it’s game two – and if you win that one, you really start to get very, very close to it. That’s what is driving us.<\/p>\n
“It’s our own race. It’s a race of five races. First one is done, now it’s time for the second one. You just visualise the moment and you know what it means: you win another one and you’re right in it.”<\/p>\n
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