{"id":2480,"date":"2026-04-13T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:03:04","slug":"michael-owen-explains-why-arsenal-might-just-nick-the-title-despite-bournemouth-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"Michael Owen Explains Why &#8220;Arsenal Might Just Nick&#8221; The Title Despite Bournemouth Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Owen thinks Arsenal should still win the Premier League title because of Man City\u2019s tougher remaining fixtures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s results have closed the gap between the two teams to six points, but while he agrees the momentum is with Pep Guardiola\u2019s team, Owen still feels the Gunners will come out on top:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Manchester City have got the slightly more difficult games. They\u2019ve got Bournemouth away, they\u2019ve got Everton away. They are two tough games. However, when you look at this weekend, we thought Arsenal at home to Bournemouth and City away at Chelsea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is pointing to City, the momentum, the record of Pep Guardiola, the experience of the players, the current form, City at home against Arsenal. It\u2019s the toss of the coin, but I think Arsenal might just nick it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Bournemouth performance was alarming<\/h2>\n<p>Despite Owen\u2019s belief that Mikel Arteta\u2019s men are still slight favourites to secure their first title in 22 years, the loss at home to Bournemouth at the weekend was very concerning.<\/p>\n<p>The players <strong>simply didn\u2019t turn up<\/strong>and there is no escaping the fact that many are seeing a repeating pattern with a team that has come up short on several occasions in past title races.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fave.co\/4mtYDsj\" rel=\"noopener nofollow \" target=\"_blank\">Buy an Arsenal home jersey from Classic Football Shirts here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What are the odds of Arsenal winning the title?<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1075480575\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>Statisticians Opta still have the Gunners as heavy favourites for the title, having given Arteta\u2019s team a 86.98% chance of finishing in 1st place, with City on 13.02%.<\/p>\n<p>However, Arsenal\u2019s percentage has gone down by over 10% over the last week. It was 97.63% prior to the Bournemouth defeat.<\/p>\n<p>A great deal now rides on the result this weekend at the Etihad. A victory or even a draw there should steady the ship heading into the final 5 games of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the Arsenal First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}