Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta comments on Tottenham's title chances

Arsenal will face derby rivals Tottenham Hotspur away from residence within the north London derby on Sunday within the Premier League.

Spurs – who haven’t misplaced in opposition to the Gunners within the Premier League since 2015 – sit high of the Premier League, eight factors forward of 14th-placed Arsenal.

Many expect it to be a decent Premier League race this time, with 5 factors separating the highest 9 teams.

Jose Mourinho’s facet are anticipated to problem the likes of Liverpool, Manchester Metropolis and Chelsea for the title this season. Arteta feels that Spurs have ‘executed issues in the fitting means’ but it surely’s too early to say whether or not they could be a possible title contender.

Arsenal can crawl again into the combination and scale back the hole with Spurs to 5 factors ought to they win on Sunday.

That is what Arteta has stated about Tottenham’s title probabilities, as quoted by Football London:

“I believe it’s very early within the season to say who’s title contenders or not. What you possibly can say as I stated earlier than is they’re within the place they’re as a result of they’ve executed issues in the fitting means.” 

Can Spurs problem for the title? 

Forward of the match, Jose Mourinho stated that he’s not bothered with the hype of the derby, relatively he’s focussed on securing the highest spot.

Spurs have assembled an excellent squad this time period, and there’s no motive to consider that they will’t problem for the title.

They added depth in midfield this summer time by signing Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg whereas bolstering their attacking midfield areas by touchdown Gareth Bale on mortgage from Actual Madrid.

In Carlos Vinicius, Spurs have a back-up striker they badly wanted. Likewise, Sergio Reguilon and Matt Doherty have solved their full-back issues.

On high of that, key gamers like Harry Kane, Son Heung-Min, Eric Dier and Toby Alderweireld have been in implausible type this season. Mourinho has an ideal observe document of doing nicely in his second season at a membership, and will probably be an enormous achievement for him if he can information Spurs to the Premier League title.