Alan Shearer backed Arsenal to end their 22-year wait for a Premier League title this season

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Viktor Gyokeres and Declan Rice scored goals as Arsenal easily defeated Burnley, but Alan Shearer has praised two different Gunners players. Declan Rice completed the three points with a second goal after Viktor Gyokeres made an impression against Burnley and broke his goal drought with a header in the first half.

Now that they are seven points ahead at the top of the Premier League, Mikel Arteta’s players will be thinking that this may be their year. Alan Shearer identified two Arsenal players that pleased him during the team’s victory over Burnley on the road.

Shearer said that he was quite pleased by Arsenal’s deployment of Jurrien Timber and Riccardo Calafiori against Burnley. After putting up even more outstanding performances, Calafiori and Timber are fast becoming Arteta’s first-choice full-backs for the Gunners. The North Londoners now have a whole different attacking dynamic after the Spanish head coach gave the two the go-ahead to advance.

Alan Shearer has backed Arsenal to win the Premier League

BBC Sport investigates the reasons behind their seemingly unstoppable title push. Set pieces proved essential again when Mikel Arteta’s team encountered disciplined and well-organised defensive lines that made scoring from open play challenging.

Arsenal excels in this area, as seen by their opening goal at Turf Moor, which came from a corner. This is the seventh time this league season that a side has done so in its first ten games.

Twelve of their eighteen league goals this season have come from dead-ball situations, which is the highest ratio of any team in a single Premier League season and more than any other team in the top flight. Former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer said to BBC Sport, “I can’t see a weakness.”

“They scored from a set-piece once more, but the performance was much more than that. I appreciate how they’re using [Jurrien] Timber and [Riccardo] Calafiori in advanced areas to win set-piece opportunities and generate overloads.