Roy Keane believes that Arsenal are able to profitable the Premier League after beating Manchester Metropolis on Sunday, however has highlighted the important thing space the place they should strengthen in the event that they’re to succeed.
Whereas Mikel Arteta closely strengthened his Arsenal squad in the summertime, Keane believes that an out-and-out goalscorer is crucial for his or her title problem.
Eddie Nketiah and Gabriel Jesus have led the road for the Gunners this season, however simply three league targets between them after eight video games is not sufficient for the previous Manchester United captain.
“Arsenal can win the league, however they would wish that striker,” Keane mentioned on the Stick to Football podcast. “It’s nice if you’re watching a staff that may play, that’s good in possession, but additionally bodily robust. We’ve seen [Manchester] Metropolis over the previous couple of years, they’ve acquired larger – clearly set items are large.
“We’ve seen gamers [this season] come off the bench for Arsenal, they’re large, robust, bodily gamers which might get you over the road in tight video games.”
Although Arsenal have lastly overwhelmed Manchester Metropolis within the Premier League for the primary time since December 2015, after choosing up simply two attracts in a run of 15 video games with out a win, Keane actually is not writing Pep Guardiola’s aspect off simply but.
Although Manchester Metropolis have suffered two league defeats in a row, after being knocked out of the League Cup by Newcastle United, however Keane actually is not writing them off of nonetheless being the favourites for the title once more this time period.
“Metropolis are clearly having a troublesome spell. It was a poor recreation towards Arsenal – cagey, I believed it was actually poor high quality nevertheless it was edgy. I actually gained’t be writing Man Metropolis off – if you have a look at the 2 league video games final yr, Man Metropolis had been thus far forward so there’s positively been progress for Arsenal.
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I wouldn’t change my thoughts by way of who I feel will win the league – it’ll be Man Metropolis.
“You have a look at the final time they performed Arsenal within the Neighborhood Defend – clearly some class it as a pleasant, however they gained that recreation. That may solely give Arsenal that little bit of confidence and perception. They gained it with out Saka, who’s an enormous participant up entrance. Metropolis had been lacking quite a lot of gamers. Just a few years in the past we watched Metropolis vs Manchester United at Outdated Trafford within the derby, and we [United] wrote off Metropolis. I’ll by no means make that mistake once more.”
Roy Keane was talking on the Keep on with Soccer podcast, dropped at you by Sky Bet.
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