{"id":301373,"date":"2023-12-04T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=301373"},"modified":"2023-12-04T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:24:36","slug":"arsenal-can-win-league-over-bored-man-city-insists-gary-neville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/arsenal-can-win-league-over-bored-man-city-insists-gary-neville\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal CAN win league over &apos;bored&apos; Man City, insists Gary Neville"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Arsenal CAN win the league this season and handle the run-in, insists Gary Neville, after showing &#8216;they can grind out results when they&#8217;ve not been at their best&#8217; &#8211; as &#8216;bored&#8217; Man City experience &#8216;post treble blues&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The former Man United defender has backed his claims that Arsenal will win title<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>He added that for City losing the league is sometimes needed for excitement<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>We expected perfection from VAR &#8211; we haven&#8217;t got it: Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gary Neville has claimed Arsenal have enough to win the league this season and handle the run-in after their gritty start to the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side are two points clear at the top of the table after beating Wolves 2-1 at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last season, after leading the Premier League for most of the season Arsenal faltered in the last ten games to let the title slip.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, Neville believes their ability to grind out results when they&#8217;ve not been at their best is more encouraging than playing well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What I&#8217;ve seen from Arsenal so far is that they&#8217;ve not been at their best so far, but that gives me more confidence that they are going to win the league,&#8217;\u00a0the former Man United defender told the\u00a0<span>Gary Neville Podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/09\/78546757-12822233-image-a-15_1701680629171.jpg\" height=\"705\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville has claimed Arsenal can win the league this season because of their &#8216;grit&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/09\/78546759-12822233-image-a-16_1701680647443.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>While City are &#8216;the best team in the league&#8217;, Neville claimed they&#8217;re suffering post treble blues<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I honestly think that to win the league by playing beautiful pretty football that&#8217;s not what happens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You have to slog it out through periods of the season where you don&#8217;t play well\u00a0and in the last ten games of the last season they couldn&#8217;t dig in to get results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What they&#8217;ve done in the first 10 games of this season when they&#8217;ve not been at their best is they&#8217;ve amassed the most points in the league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now imagine if the football comes, imagine if the beauty is there in the and it will. They&#8217;re more powerful and more strong and I just feel that\u00a0they&#8217;ve got a real chance this year.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he made of Man City this season, the -year-old claimed they are experiencing &#8216;post treble blues&#8217; and look &#8216;bored&#8217; and &#8216;complacent&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What we&#8217;re seeing is what i thought we would &#8211; post treble blues. You&#8217;ve reached utopia in football terms and this mesmerising height they&#8217;ll never reach again. After that, everything becomes a little bit inferior.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/09\/78546761-12822233-image-a-12_1701680538371.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Sky Sports presenter also claimed something similar happened when he played for United<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That used to happen regularly in seasons after we [Man United] won the league and the manager used to say you&#8217;re bored. He would walk in at the end of a game, you&#8217;re bored and waiting for the big games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s a pattern now [for City] at the moment of them not waking up and sort of drifting through games. I mean, conceding nine goals in four matches is so unlike them.<\/p>\n<p>However, he did add that if Man City decide they want to wake up nobody can challenge them for the league as they &#8216;have the best players and the best manager&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed &#8216;sometimes you need to lose the league to feel the excitement again&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12822233\/Arsenal-win-league-season-insists-Gary-Neville-bored-Man-City-experience-post-treble-blues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal CAN win the league this season and handle the run-in, insists Gary Neville, after showing &#8216;they can grind out <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arsenal CAN win league over &amp;apos;bored&amp;apos; 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