Premier League - Away at Aston Villa as Arsenal run out of room to drop points in title race

2023-02-18 11:30

Premier League - Away at Aston Villa as Arsenal run out of room to drop points in title race


The 24th round of the Premier League in the 2022/23 season will stage a very critical battle. Looking to return to the top of the standings, the "Gunner" Arsenal will play an away game against Aston Villa coached by Emery. The defending champion Manchester City, which has returned to the top of the standings, will also go to the away game to beat the newly promoted Nottingham Forest. However, in order to continue to compete with the "Blue Moon" on the road to the championship, Arteta's team has no room to lose points in this campaign.


Manchester City successfully defeated Arsenal 3-1 in the Premier League supplementary match in midweek, tied Arsenal with 51 points, but also rose to the top of the standings with a goal difference advantage. In addition, this is Manchester City's return to the first place in the standings after the second round of this season. However, Arsenal still has the advantage of one less game, but if they lose to Aston Villa away in this game, Arteta's team will waste the advantage of one less game.


After a long struggle to finally return to the top of the standings, the team's morale will also be more or less improved, but Manchester City will travel to Leipzig in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 next week. It is expected that coach Guardiola will arrange core players to play on the basis of rotation, and Harland, De Bruyne and Grealish are also expected to help out in midfield.


Arsenal need to get back scoring touch


As for the opponent Nottingham Forest, this newly promoted team currently ranks 14th in the Premier League standings with 24 points. They also lost to Fulham in the last round. Take all 3 points.


As for Arsenal, the Gunners once again experienced a capsized situation in the second half of this season. In the last 3 games, they only achieved an embarrassing result of 1 draw and 2 losses, including a 1-3 home loss to Manchester City in the last round. If Arsenal fails to win again in this round and Manchester City beats Nottingham Forest, then Arsenal will be 3 points behind Manchester City. Therefore, Arsenal can only keep winning in the next schedule, so that they can hope to lead the standings with a larger score.


In addition, Arteta's current priority is to help the team regain the rhythm of scoring, and Saka, Martinelli and Odegaard must also recover as soon as possible.


It is worth mentioning that Emery, the coach of the rival Aston Villa , once coached Arsenal, and Aston Villa is currently ranked 11th in the standings with 28 points after being trained by Emery. , also far away from the relegation zone. However, Aston Villa lost to Leicester and Manchester City in the last two rounds of the league, so coach Emery needs to make a strong team to avenge his dismissal that year.