Manchester City will win the league again if Arsenal lose against Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
City will win the league.
Whether it’s Saturday or with a win over Chelsea on Sunday. In fact, they only need one win from their final three games.
It will lift City to the title for a fifth time in six seasons.
And this is all after Arsenal led the way for large parts of the season. Saturday’s game is almost irrelevant for Arsenal. They will finish second but what might’ve been?
“We have shown this season,” Arteta replied when asked if Arsenal can be title contenders again next season.
The Gunners lost 3-0 to Brighton in their previous game. The wheels are off.
“We’re still there, with two games to go (City have three as they have a game in hand) we can still be champions against probably the best team in Premier League history.
“For 10 months we’re still there. There’s two games still to go and we’re not going to bottle that for sure.
“What happens next season will depend on what we do, how we evolve and how we start. That prediction is very difficult to do today.”
Arteta did concede improvements will need to be made to his young team before Arsenal can expect to hold their own in the Champions League next season.
“At the level that we want? No. We didn’t have the capacity to do that as well with the Europa League so it’s part of that evolution,” he said.
“We want to be better and the rest will be better, then the margins will be higher and we have to start to live with those standards and improve and be smarter.”