Gunners hero Martin Keown has dismissed Paul Scholes’ recent criticism of Arsenal as nothing more than ‘mischievousness’, urging Mikel Arteta’s squad not to take any notice as they look to win their first Premier League title since 2004.
ARSENAL have built an imperious six-point lead at the top of the Premier League table after a strong start to the campaign following three consecutive runners-up finishes in the English top flight.
Arsenal thumped Leeds at Elland Road at the weekend before seeing both Manchester City and Aston Villa drop points on Sunday, as the pressure was eased off the heads of many of those Arsenal players that could have started feeling the pressure.
But despite their dominance at the summit, the north London giants have faced their fair share of criticism for what many perceive to be an unattractive style of play under Arteta, and United legend Scholes suggested that Arteta’s men could become the worst team to ever win the Premier League title.
He said on the Good, The Bad & The Football podcast: ‘If Arsenal win the league, this could be the worst team to win the league,’
‘If you’re thinking of picking a team of the season and picking the front four, nobody from the Arsenal team gets in that. Look at previous champions – Liverpool’s forwards, brilliant. Possibly the only one is [Bukayo] Saka, and I don’t think he’s been brilliant.
‘He’s not scored many goals this year or assists.’
But Keown urged Arteta’s players to ignore the outside noise as he addressed Scholes’ remarks on talkSPORT alongside Simon Jordan and host Jim White today, he said: ‘Yeah, of course they did.
‘They journey of week-to-week, you’ve got to shut that noise out. People talking about them being champions, some mischievously saying that this would be the worst ever team [to win it].
‘You’ve just got to go and win it, it doesn’t matter what you look like. It doesn’t matter at all. Obviously people try to create that pressure and when you don’t get what you want they look for all kinds of weaknesses.
‘But ARSENAL are better than everybody else right now, that’s all the need to be.’
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