“They’ve Disappointed Me” – Gary Neville Still Backing Arsenal To Be Champions

Gary Neville doesn’t want to switch his pick…

Gary Neville is refusing to renege on his prediction that Arsenal will win the Premier League this season, though the former Man United defender admits they’ve disappointed in recent games, Sky Sports reports.

Coming off a dominant display against Brighton and a credible draw at Anfield to top the table at Christmas, two dismal showings followed which has seen us tumble to fourth place.

Neville stated that while they can still lift the title in May, he feels a good opportunity has been missed as we squandered a six-point lead over Manchester City.

Our profligacy was also highlighted by the Sky Sports pundit as an issue that needs to be resolved if we’re to end our 20-year drought.

“I’m not going to change my prediction I don’t think you can sort of flip flop halfway through a season,” Neville said on Monday Night Football.

“They’re not completely out of it Arsenal.

“I’ve been disappointed with them, they’ll be disappointed with themselves and the Arsenal fans will be disappointed with them over the past two or three weeks because they’ve missed an opportunity to put themselves in a great position.

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‘Not where they would be in a position where you would say they’re going to win the league but that four, five, six-point gap with the games they have had in the last few weeks.

“They’re just in a difficult patch but they can come back, they can win the league. The issue is at the top end of the pitch where they have a problem with putting the ball in the back of the net,” Neville added.

While the club will likely be quiet in the January market, we can add goals to the squad simply by encouraging our forwards to reach the levels they produced last term.

Arteta takes his team to Dubai soon for a warm-weather training camp before our Premier League schedule resumes. One hopes the players can come back refreshed, especially those in the attacking department.

For a team that spends around 73% of the game in the opponent’s third, we really need to be making more of this territory and blowing teams away.