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Gary Neville believes Arsenal need to remain focused and “do their job” as “strange things” can still happen in this title race.
Mikel Arteta watched his Arsenal team return to the top of the Premier League table with victory over Chelsea before insisting he would not let his players’ heads drop.
The Gunners were eight points clear last month but had fallen behind Manchester City following a run of four winless game — a streak that ended with a comfortable 3-1 win over the beleaguered Blues.
“I think Manchester City will win the league,” said the Sky Sports pundit on the Gary Neville Podcast.
“Still, things can happen. We have seen where a powerful team goes in front but then struggle, like Arsenal have had in the last few weeks.
“The year that City won the league for the first time in 2012, United got in front of them and everyone thought: ‘Oh here we go, they are going to power forwards’ and they didn’t, they stumbled.
“So Arsenal have got to keep going, it’s about keeping teams honest at this time of the year. I use that phrase a lot with four or five games to go.
“Where you don’t want to be — and I had it at my first season at Manchester United — is where we didn’t win at West Ham on the final day and then Blackburn didn’t win at Liverpool and if we had won, we’d have won the league.
“So you just have to make sure you do your job. And I think if you’re Arsenal, make sure you are not looking back in three weeks’ time thinking: ‘Oh we thought we lost it. But if we had beaten Chelsea and Newcastle we would have won it as City dropped points’. — SKYsport.
