Mikel Arteta dismisses Premier League title favourites claim

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has refused to label his team as the favorites for the Premier League title this season after registering a dramatic 3-2 victory against Manchester United on Sunday.

The Gunners’s secured an important win against the Red Devils, which allowed them to go five points clear of defending champions Manchester City with a game in hand. However, Arteta refused to acknowledge that his team are now the favorites to win the title.

“I don’t have an opinion, it can be a perception,” he said (reported via 90min). “I know my team so well. I know where we are, I know we are here and I know where we want to be, and we are still far from that. I know the level of the other teams, especially one that has won everything in the last five or six years, and we are not there yet.”

The first half of the season has been brilliant for the Gunners, where they have lost only one game. The Arsenal manager was quizzed about his team’s performance.

“Extraordinary, I would say”, Arteta said of the first half of the season. “It doesn’t get much better than that, that’s the reality. I think we deserve the points that we have, I think we have played well enough to win most of the matches, but the reality as well is that we still have a lot of things that we can get much better at, attacking and defending in transitions, in set-pieces and that’s the aim.”

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