Arsenal are second within the Premier League behind Manchester City having spent 247 days on the high; Mikel Arteta and Frank Lampard each consider the title race is much from over; watch Arsenal vs Chelsea stay on Sky Sports Premier League on Tuesday from 6.30pm; kick-off 8pm

Mikel Arteta has rejected the notion that the Premier League title race is finished and dusted now Manchester City are high, with the Arsenal supervisor robustly saying: “This is not over”.

Despite Arsenal main the desk for 247 days this time period, they sit in second place for the primary time since February after City beat Fulham 2-1 on Super Sunday to maneuver one level away from the Gunners with a sport in hand.

Arsenal can transfer again to the summit in the event that they beat Chelsea stay on Sky Sports on Tuesday night time, however City would then have the chance to maneuver again in entrance by profitable towards West Ham 24 hours later.

“Now it is not in our hands,” Arteta stated. “What is in our hands is to win our games. That’s what we try to do and the rest is down to City.

“I do know what we’re attempting to do. We have the nicest a part of the season to play with 5 video games to go. This just isn’t over. I might pay some huge cash to be on this place subsequent season, consider me.”

For Arsenal to win the Premier League, the Gunners realistically must win their 5 remaining video games and hope City slip up twice.

Asked what Arteta has seen within the final week to offer him hope that City will drop the required factors, the Arsenal supervisor responded: “How robust it’s to win each single sport.

“It’s not something that I saw in last week, if not they would have won every single Premier League game and they haven’t.”

Despite shedding 4-1 to City in a title decider final week, Arsenal nonetheless secured Champions League soccer for the primary time since 2017 – however Arteta says that, nor the concept of second place, is one thing the Gunners are ready to accept.

“Within the disappointment [of the loss to City last week] and the spirit around it, there are two things: the first one is to recognise what a lot of people have done a the club to get us back into the Champions League, which was already a difficult thing to achieve and not a lot of people were optimistic that we had the ability to do that at the start of the season.

“The second thing, and this is what I like the most, is even after achieving this with six games to go – which is something that has not happened for more than a decade at this club – we are still not satisfied, we are upset and we want more.

“We need to be the membership we need to be – to be persistently with the perfect. That is what I’ve cherished probably the most about the previous few days.”

Lampard: Arsenal still in race | Auba fit to face Gunners

In the Chelsea camp, caretaker supervisor Frank Lampard says there’s nonetheless sufficient “jeopardy” moments for Arsenal to get again in entrance within the Premier League title race, as he prepares to take his staff to the Emirates Stadium.

Lampard is aware of the ins and outs of a Premier League title race having gained the competitors thrice as a participant and says Arsenal are nonetheless within the hunt.

“It could be either way,” stated Lampard. “They [Arsenal] are very much in the hunt still to win the Premier League. They are a fantastic team, and they are having a great season.

“If they’re wounded barely, they may have an enormous response. If we are able to make issues troublesome for them, then that would after all be completely different. It’s a tough one to name.”

When asked if Arsenal are still in the title race, he added: “Of course, there are sufficient video games left for the component of jeopardy nonetheless to be there on the high of the desk and the underside.

“There are fully in it. Manchester City have shown some incredible form and we fully respect that, but we also have to respect what Arsenal have done this year. They will still believe they are in it and rightly so.”

Lampard additionally insists Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is “fit and ready” to face his former membership on Tuesday night time.

The striker, who has performed simply 190 minutes of soccer for Chelsea because the flip of the 12 months, has been a bit half participant for the Blues, however because the membership’s solely recognised striker there have been requires him to return to steer the road in a bid to finish their struggles in entrance of aim.

Chelsea scored only one aim in April in seven matches, and requested if Aubameyang, who scored 68 Premier League objectives in 5 season with the Gunners, may face his former aspect, Lampard did not rule it out.

He stated: “We’ll see. I’ve got Auba, got Kai, got David Fofana. I’m not going to divulge the team right here, but Aubameyang is fit and ready.”

When requested if Aubameyang’s Arsenal connection comes into his ideas for choice, Lampard added: “Possibly because we do think that a player going back to his old club can give a certain motivation.

“I have not delved an excessive amount of into that with Auba however I’ll choose that place on my feeling of how the gamers have skilled and what the staff construction appears to be like like.

Arsenal’s remaining fixtures

May 2: Chelsea (H) – Premier League, kick-off 8pm, stay on Sky Sports

May 7: Newcastle (A) – Premier League, kick-off 4.30pm, stay on Sky Sports

May 13: Brighton (H) – Premier League, kick-off 3pm

May 20: Nottingham Forest (A) – Premier League, kick-off 5.30pm, stay on Sky Sports

May 28: Wolves (H) – Premier League, kick-off 4.30pm