{"id":15666,"date":"2026-01-25T22:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15666"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:07:22","slug":"why-arsenal-are-still-premier-league-title-favourites-despite-recent-wobble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15666","title":{"rendered":"Why Arsenal are still Premier League title favourites despite recent wobble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arteta said before the match that he wanted the crowd to &#8220;create more energy, more positiveness around the game&#8221; &#8211; but that was lacking as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Arsenal<\/a> chased a way back into the contest, with Emirates Stadium particularly nervy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And there were some boos at the final whistle &#8211; although Arteta put those down to the &#8220;demands and expectation&#8221; that comes with challenging for the title. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s part of the journey to winning,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If not, nobody will lose football matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s how we react to that, and I am very convinced, because I know those players in the dressing them and how much we want it, that we&#8217;re going to react immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Gunners boss did try to force a result with a quadruple change when his side were 2-1 down &#8211; but, despite getting back level, Matheus Cunha&#8217;s excellent late strike secured all three points for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-united\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Manchester United<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter,&#8221; Arteta said when asked again about the reaction of the crowd. &#8220;We have to do more, so maybe that&#8217;s not enough. We have to do more, there&#8217;s nothing else. We have to do our very best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you do that, you can rest in peace. Today we really certainly tried to do our very best, but we weren&#8217;t efficient enough against a team that is very well organised, and we got punished because of our own mistakes as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2xvq5ng0xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arteta said before the match t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}