Neville claims Arsenal can ‘rip Man City to shreds’ due to four stars

Gary Neville believes Arsenal “can rip Manchester City to shreds” in next week’s eagerly-anticipated encounter at the Etihad. The match between the two teams has been dubbed the potential Premier League title decider.

Arsenal have slipped up in the title race, drawing back-to-back matches away at Liverpool and West Ham. But it is still in their hands as long as they avoid defeat against their nearest rivals.

Mikel Arteta’s team are four points clear but City have a game in hand, which will soon become two as they are not in league action this weekend. Arsenal have done themselves no favours, throwing away two-goal leads in successive matches.

But Neville still thinks they are still well placed to end their 19-year wait for a title. He says they must be inspired by the upcoming match at City and not let the pressure get the better of them.

Speaking on the Gary Neville podcast, he said: “Sir Alex Ferguson always used to say ‘if you had to win one game to win the league would you take it?’. And the answer was always yes. [If] Arsenal win at the Etihad, they’ll win the league.

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“If you were handed this opportunity at the start of the season, that you have to go and win away at a ground to win the league, you’d snap someone’s hand off to have that opportunity every single year. So this is something to be excited about, this is not something to feel pressure about.”

Neville knows City are more experienced than this Arsenal team in pressure-cooker matches. But he believes the quartet of Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Gabriel Jesus and Martin Odegaard are more than good enough to terrorise Pep Guardiola’s defence and score several goals at the Etihad.

The Manchester United legend added: “City will love this game because they’ve been there before. Guardiola will love this game, but Arteta’s got to love this game and his players have got to love this game. Martinelli, Saka, Odegaard, Jesus. They can go and rip City to shreds a week on Wednesday.

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“They can, they can go and score three at the Etihad and that’s how they’ve got to think. They’ve got to think that they’re going to go and create history. Think of Michael Thomas, think of [Freddie] Ljungberg at Old Trafford, think of all those times where their predecessors have done it before.

“As much as I think that City will win the league, and I’ve said it all along, I’m now giving advice to Arsenal about what a run-in is, what a run-in feels like and what you have to think like.

“It’s tough, it’s really tough and I do hope they go and do it because it’ll be sensational for the league to see a team go from fifth [last season] to first. That’s what we want the Premier League to be like.”

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