Arsenal: Nigerian Coach Ojekunle Says the Gunners Won’t Win the EPL Title

Arsenal: Nigerian Coach Ojekunle Says the Gunners Won’t Win the EPL Title

Ibitoye Shittu
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:25 PM
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  • Arsenal on Wednesday night, 15 February, suffered a 3-1 home loss against Man City in a Premier League tie
  • Coach Folabi Ojekunle has revealed that Arsenal players embarrassed themselves by losing the game
  • The former Kogi United handler added that Mikel Arteta and his wards won't win the League title this term

Nigerian professional coach Folabi Ojekunle has slammed Arsenal claiming that they won't win the Premier League title following their home loss against Manchester City.

On Wednesday night, 15 February, the Gunners were dethroned as Premier League leaders following their shocking 3-1 defeat against the Citizens at the Emirates Stadium.

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Arsenal: Nigerian coach Ojekunle says the Gunners won't win the EPL title. Photo by Shaun Botterill
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Going into this game, Gunners fans were expecting their players to shine so as to strengthen their lead on the table, but they were all disappointed.

Who were the scorers?

Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring for the visitors in the 24th minute before Bukayo Saka restored parity for Arsenal in the 42nd minute via a penalty.

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Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland scored a goal each in the second half to condemn the Gunners into an embarrassing loss.

Speaking to Sports Brief exclusively, Tottenham trained coach Ojekunle stated clearly that Arsenal players are not reliable stressing that they should have made a statement by beating Guardiola and his wards.

Statement made by Ojekunle

''Arsenal is a disgrace because they embarrassed themselves by losing that game and it was disappointing because such game should have been won by them.
''A team who wants to win the League title will never lose at home against big opponents considering the fact that they are the two teams up there.
''I don't see Arsenal winning the title because they will still suffer many defeats.''

Arteta pinpoints how Gunners lost

Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how Arsenal boss, Mikel Arteta opened up on his side's humiliating defeat against Manchester City on Wednesday night.

The Gunners were humbled 3-1 during the Premier League cracker staged at the Emirates Stadium to drop to second in the standings.

Arteta's men were desperate to secure a positive result during the clash in order to get their campaign back on track, having already dropped points against Everton and Brentford.

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