Manchester United legend Teddy Sheringham has accused an ‘entitled’ Arsenal of ‘getting ideas above their station’ and showing their opponents a scarcity of respect during their Premier League title charge.
Arsenal host United on the Emirates on Sunday having missed the possibility to go nine points clear on the summit of English football last week once they were held to a goalless draw against Nottingham Forest.
While some extent was enough for them to increase their lead with Manchester City and Aston Villa each beaten that weekend, there have been signs of frustration at the ultimate whistle with Declan Rice seen blasting his side’s performance as he trudged off the pitch.
Mikel Arteta’s side are chasing down what could be their first league title in 22 years but Sheringham has warned simply turning up at places just like the City Ground expecting to win demonstrates an air of ‘entitlement’ the previous United and Tottenham star has little time for.
‘I believe Arsenal is likely to be getting ideas above their station in a short time,’ Sheringham told Metro, speaking on behalf of BetMGM.
‘Going to Nottingham Forest where Forest have played well and so they have come away with a draw, it’s not the tip of the world.
‘There are a number of performances where you go to certain places and also you get overrun and also you come away losing. Everyone has those games.
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‘After I was playing in that great Man United team, we might still go to places and find yourself losing and there wouldn’t be the uproar there was with Arsenal this week once they have only gone and drawn a game.’
Sheringham spent 4 years in Manchester, scoring one of the crucial famous goals within the United’s history within the Treble season in 1999, and is adamant certainly one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s biggest sides never went right into a game ‘expecting to win’.
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And the previous England international suggests the ‘uproar’ that follows when Arsenal fail to win like against Forest last week showed a scarcity of respect for Sean Dyche’s side.
‘They’re talking as in the event that they are entitled to win every game now,’ Sheringham continued.
‘They think because you’re team you’re entitled to win games. But you’re not. That’s not football. That’s not the Premier League, you may have to be certain that that you simply win every game.
‘There are going to be teams they arrive up against that perform very, thoroughly on the day, there are going to be teams that roll over but there might be those that give Arsenal good games.
‘And in the event that they take their probabilities at the fitting times they will get a result against Arsenal.
‘That type of entitlement, we never had that. You wouldn’t have had that come away from drawing 1-1 with Leicester or something and go, “that’s a disgrace, we needs to be winning”.
‘You will have to respect the opposition as well and I believe Arsenal need to try this after last week’s result. They’d probabilities to win but didn’t take their probabilities.’
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