‘Mr Arsenal’ Tony Adams is confident his old side are set to finish a 22-year wait to win the Premier League title after Mikel Arteta’s men returned to winning ways against Leeds United on Saturday.
The Gunners, temporarily no less than, restored their seven-point lead at the highest of the table following a crushing 4-0 victory at Elland Road.
After going three games with no maximum haul and losing at home for the primary time this season against Manchester United last weekend, the Gunners and Mikel Arteta were firmly under the microscope.
Despite losing Bukayo Saka before kick-off due an injury sustained within the warm-up, Arsenal sent out a defiant message with their most convincing away win of the campaign to date.
Aston Villa and Manchester City each have the possibility to chop the gap on Sunday, but Adams feels each challengers won’t last the pace within the long-run.
‘I don’t think that can be a problem because I don’t see any challengers in sight,’ Adams, who skippered 4 different Arsenal title-winning sides, told talkSPORT.
‘I don’t think defensively City are adequate, they’re having too many parts of their programme fall away.
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‘They’re not only going to run now and have the 10-game winning sequence that you must go and win the league.
‘I can’t see Villa maintaining it despite the fact that Rogers is an excellent player and it’s great for England. I actually do like the way in which they hold lines their backline may be very strong, he’s an excellent manager as well. I just don’t see them sustaining it with the squad scenario.
‘I do think the others will fall away and Arsenal will run to the finish line.’
Should Arsenal recover from the road, Martin Odegaard can be the person to receive the trophy.
Adams has been critical of the Norway captain previously and even suggested the Arsenal armband must be warn by Declan Rice as a substitute however the 59-year-old insists his words were misinterpreted.
He said: ‘They misunderstood it the general public did.
‘It could have made Odegaard relieved [of captaincy burden], but I believe he’s been a greater player this yr for it than possibly my comments.’
Reflecting on what he previously said about Odegaard, Adams remarked: ‘I just said, ‘Perhaps it must be Declan,’ and I said this about Harry Kane for the England team as well.
‘If you’ve got a forward, sometimes that you must mix it up, that you must change things – put a faster player on or a much bigger player for crosses or someone that may create things.
‘And he’s [Odegaard] a part of that process and he’s a Dennis Bergkamp [type of player], he’s a talented, talented player.
‘But he’s not going to be on the pitch 24/7, so I just went for Gabriel [Magalhaes] or Declan Rice [to replace Odegaard as captain], that was my argument.
‘He wasn’t positive [with the ball last campaign], but he has been this season, he really does put the ball in now.
‘It was like he was hesitating and hesitating and he was slowing play up, but this season, I’ve seen a big change in him.’
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