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Arsenal will bounce back and win the Premier League title, says Ian Wright (Picture: The Overlap)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ian Wright has backed Arsenal to pick themselves up from their crushing defeat to Manchester City and win the Premier League title this season.<\/p>\n

The Gunners found themselves in an imperious position in the title race earlier this month, knowing victory over Bournemouth would have opened up a 12-point lead at the top of the table.<\/p>\n

But the Cherries stunned Arsenal to run out 2-1 winners at the Emirates, piling even more pressure on Mikel Arteta\u2019s men ahead of last weekend\u2019s potentially pivotal trip to the Etihad.<\/p>\n

A moment of brilliance from Rayan Cherki ensured Arsenal got off to the worst possible start in Manchester, but the visitors found an immediate response through Kai Havertz at the other end of the pitch \u2013 gifted to them by Gianluigi Donnarumma.<\/p>\n

City rallied again, though, with Erling Haaland scoring what proved to be the winner in the 65th minute, while Eberechi Eze hit the woodwork and Havertz squandered two golden chances in a pulsating second half.<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola\u2019s side followed this up by beating a down-and-out Burnley team on Wednesday night, a result that saw the club leapfrog Arsenal and go top \u2013 on goal difference \u2013 for the first time since the opening week of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Giving his thoughts on the latest episode of The Overlap, Wright outlined the positives has has taken from Arsenal\u2019s setback, now that the dust has settled.<\/p>\n

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Arteta\u2019s side slipped to second as City beat Burnley on Wednesday (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Haaland scored the decisive goal in City\u2019s victory over title rivals Arsenal (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I was obviously very emotional last time [on the last show], I was very emotional about it. But leading into that was obviously Southampton and Bournemouth so I was reeling off of that, and it wasn\u2019t great against Sporting,\u2019 the ex-Arsenal and England striker said.<\/p>\n

\u2018But I said in the last show that I just wanted to see something from us, show us that you can do something, you can give us something.<\/p>\n

\u2018If we\u2019d won the game previously and done well getting to Manchester City, there\u2019s never going to be the: it\u2019s decided on the Manchester City game. You want to try and get that cushion so when you play that game, whatever happens, you\u2019re okay because you\u2019ll beat the rest.<\/p>\n

\u2018So leading into that and the way we played, obviously, I was disappointed. But we played well enough to win the game, we should have at least got the draw out of that game.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Wright felt Arsenal were ultimately punished by their lack of \u2018ruthlessness\u2019 in front of goal in Sunday\u2019s top-of-the-table showdown.<\/p>\n

\u2018Watching Eze, [Martin] Odegaard and Havertz, we created the kind of chances that we should have taken. We should have taken them,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

\u2018When you watch City, they do give chances up and if you\u2019re going to be ruthless, you take them and Arsenal could have won that game.<\/p>\n

\u2018Haaland had one chance, bam, took it, so I\u2019m a lot better now because now what they\u2019ve got to do is be ruthless with everything.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Based on what he saw in the performance against City, Wright is hopeful Arsenal will have enough to win the title, even if it is a case of \u2018creeping over the line\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m gonna go with: we\u2019re going to win the league,\u2019 he replied when asked for his title prediction.<\/p>\n

\u2018The chances we created against that City side, I think we could do the same against the teams coming. Obviously we\u2019re going to have to be a lot more ruthless with taking our chances.<\/p>\n

\u2018But before that, leading into that, I didn\u2019t see us creating enough chances in the games leading into that, in a time where with the history of what we\u2019re doing in this stage of the season, we\u2019ve kind of faltered.<\/p>\n

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Havertz squandered a huge chance to level late on at the Etihad (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I thought in that Man City game, the big game, we created enough chances where if we do that against other teams and get ourselves back to that defensive solidity that we had before leading into this part of the season and finish this with ruthlessness. <\/p>\n

\u2018We started the season with ruthlessness with people saying, \u201cOh, it\u2019s Arsenal\u2019s, it\u2019s Arsenal\u2019s to lose\u201d, everybody was saying it, because we looked absolutely faultless in the way we were.<\/p>\n

\u2018Now, everybody\u2019s faltering and in this City game I thought we did enough. if we can play like that, even if we\u2019re trying to creep over the line, we can probably do it.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The Gunners remain firmly in the hunt, says Wright (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wright called on those players with experience of winning major titles to step up and drag the rest of the squad back on track after what will have been a difficult few days.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ve got to find the fight,\u2019 Wright, Arsenal\u2019s second-highest goalscorer in history, continued.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ve got Piero Hincapie who has won the Bundesliga, we\u2019ve got Gabriel Jesus and we\u2019ve got Jurrien Timber who has won in Holland, three players who have seen it off. <\/p>\n

\u2018They need to step into that team and try to make them understand what it\u2019s going to take to finish this off because everybody in there will be having doubts, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that.\u2019<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to this weekend\u2019s action, Wright backed his beloved club to come away from their clash with Newcastle with all three points.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re winning this game, either 2-0 or 3-0,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think we have [got that in us]\u2026 3-0! We need that kind of result.\u2019<\/p>\n

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