Arsenal are two games away from knowing their destiny in this season’s Premier League title race.
Compared to the previous campaign, Mikel Arteta is ensuring that his players are pushing Manchester City all the way.
Arsenal comfortably beat Bournemouth 3-0 on Saturday to keep their Premier League title hopes alive with goals from Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard and Declan Rice.
All three have been very important players, especially the club’s record transfer and the pressure that was on his shoulders when he first joined.
Rice has shown very little sign of pressure or the fact that he doesn’t have the quality to step up a level.
Instead, the 25-year-old has entered the Arsenal building, stuck his chest out and proceeded to be his team’s best player.
Leroy Rosenior was sure to give his flowers to the England star and how he is already ‘impossible to replace’, as he told Premier League Productions (06/05/24 at 5:50 pm).
Rice has been a regular in that midfield for Arteta, playing a much deeper number six role when required and then pushing forward when need be as an attack-minded number eight.
It was added that Rice is someone who is ‘good at everything’ and if he wanted to, he could play as a centre-forward for Arteta.
Declan Rice can play everywhere
“He’s impossible to replace when you look at these stats, the distance covered he is top, interceptions, he is top, tackles, top and passes into the final third, top,” said Rosenior.
“All these stats suggest that he is good at everything. £100 million has been an absolute bargain for him. You are thinking he is going to be a great number six. He started at centre-back. You look at him, he can play centre-forward if he wants to. He is that good of an all-round footballer. He has almost given the icing on the cake for Arsenal.”
Arsenal’s Premier League title hopes
Luck is needed and a favour from others. Step forward Fulham, Tottenham and West Ham United.
These are Manchester City’s remaining three matches. Usually, they see this out and pick up maximum points.
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But trips to Craven Cottage and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium aren’t going to be easy. Ian Wright had a message for Spurs.
It would be a Netflix-esque script if Spurs, of all teams, help Arsenal out in the title race because there is a possibility it could happen.