{"id":264888,"date":"2026-01-26T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:42:08","slug":"arsenal-what-history-tells-us-about-gunners-premier-league-title-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264888\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal: What history tells us about Gunners’ Premier League title chances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data analysts Opta still give Arsenal<\/a> an 81.7% chance of winning the title, based on 10,000 simulations of each team’s remaining fixtures.<\/p>\n

Pundits, though, are less certain that Arsenal<\/a> will end their 22-year wait for a league title this season, with several wondering whether Arteta and his players will hold their nerve.<\/p>\n

“There are still some questions about the mental strength of the team,” says Arsenal<\/a>‘s former title-winning captain Patrick Vieira. “When I say now or never [to win the league], it is because other teams are not doing well. <\/p>\n

“It will be sad to see them losing that momentum, so that is why it is important to stick together and create this togetherness to keep performing.”<\/p>\n

Five-time Premier League winner Peter Schmeichel told BBC Radio 5 Live: “I think the inexperience of everyone at Arsenal<\/a> of not winning the Premier League and having finished second for three years and being close – that is now coming back to them. <\/p>\n

“It is not the pressure from the outside, it is more internally. That is something they have to learn [to cope with], and they have to learn it quickly.”<\/p>\n

However, Premier League record goalscorer Alan Shearer still believes Arsenal<\/a> will win the title because of their squad strength, and added: “I don’t think it’s a time to panic. You’re going to get dodgy results at some stage of the season. You’ve got to stay calm.”<\/p>\n

Arteta recognises that fact and told the BBC after the Manchester United<\/a> defeat: “The margins are extremely small and we made them even smaller. Now we have to react and see what we are made of.”<\/p>\n

The answer to that may well become clearer when they face Leeds United<\/a> at Elland Road on Saturday afternoon (15:00 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data analysts Opta still give Arsenal an 81.7% chance of winning the title, based on 10,000 simulations of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-264888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}