Why Do Arsenal Possibly Win The Premier League This Season?

The winter transfer window has officially ended and the clubs have also completed the preparation for the second phase of the season.In addition to Chelsea's name in the market, Arsenal is also a notable club as they have added 3 new players to serve the National Championship race. While they are not the top choices, 3 new players give Arsenal the confidence to move towards the title for the first time in nearly 20 years.

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Arsenal's performance after half a season

The fact that Arsenal is the No. 1 candidate for the Premier League title this year is clear and no one can deny it. They had a five-point advantage over the team chasing Manchester City and still have a match to play. Though they lost to Man City last night, the chance is still available. That advantage is the result of the impressive performance of coach Mikel Arteta's team from the beginning of the season. In 19 matches, the Gunners only dropped points exactly 3 times and won 16 victories, overtaking the 50-point mark when the season passed half way.

There were 3 times out of 4 in the history when a team reached 50 points in the first half of the Premier League season, they also won the champion cup.  The only exception is Liverpool in the 2018-2019 season, and of course their opponent is Man City.

Why Arsenal can win the Premier League 2022/23?

Although Arsenal has a huge advantage in the championship race, there is still a large part of the audience who feel doubtful about the ability of the London representative to win the throne when they are compared to Man City. This is due to the tradition of these two teams.
In previous seasons, the sprint period at the beginning of the year was usually the time when Arsenal fell free for the rankings. Meanwhile, this is the time for The Citizens to accelerate in previous seasons. Pep Guardiola and other coaches are obviously more experienced than Arsenal in this race.

But at the moment Arsenal is so different from what they were years ago. Looking at the way that the Gunners played bravely and sublimely in the last half of the season, it is difficult to recognize the team that we often know and Arsenal's chance to win this season's championship is very large.

The right innovation in transfer thinking

The way Arsenal performed in the winter transfer window also shows a very different mindset of the London team. Remember in the January transfer window last year, Arsenal did not add any new players amid a shortage of midfield and attack personnel. As a result, Arsenal dropped the ticket to the Champions League with only two points less than the fourth-placed team Tottenham Hotspur. The Gunners took a gamble and failed.

This season, they are no longer betting. Arsenal are different now. The top four race is over. They are now the No. 1 contender for the championship. That has prompted the owners of Arsenal to make stronger moves to strengthen their forces. The fact that they are willing to spend up to nearly 100 million euros on contracts like Mykhailo Mudryk or Moises Caicedo shows the ambition of the Emirates Stadium team. If it is Arsenal of any previous league, the most likely scenario this winter is to lose Mudryk and Caicedo.

However, it is also a pity that the Gunners have missed their top goals. Last winter, Arsenal pursued striker Dusan Vlahovic for nearly a month, but eventually let the striker fall into the hands of Juventus. The Gunners decided not to buy anyone and saved money to buy Gabriel Jesus in the summer.

The new names are rich in experience.

This year, Arsenal have decided that they cannot sit still and bring a basket to the market to replace Leandro Trossard from Brighton and Jorginho from Chelsea. At first glance, these are contracts that are very contradictory to the Gunners' transfer policy. In the previous two summer transfer windows, they did not sign any players over the age of 25. But in just the past month, Arsenal have brought in a 28-year-old player and a 31-year-old player.

Isn't that like breaking your own transfer rules? However, that is not the case. In the previous transfer window, Arsenal aimed to build a framework for the future, but in the winter window this year, they added experience to move towards the championship.

When the opportunity to win the championship suddenly opened up more than ever, it is not too difficult to understand when the Gunners decided to trade 1 or 2 short-term contracts to bring immediate effects. Leandro Trossard and Jorginho are players who have played in England and know this tournament well. Trossard immediately showed his worth as he opened the scoring for the 3-2 win over Manchester United on his Arsenal debut. The Belgian striker is also the name that has played the most prominent role in the Gunners' squad in the last match against Man City in the FA Cup.

With Jorginho, Arsenal has brought home a true champion with two times lifting the European Championship in both club colors and the national team. The talia midfielder will bring a lot of experience as well as winning spirit to a young team that is aiming for the No. 1 position in the tournaments they attend.

In addition, it is impossible not to mention Arsenal's third rookie, midfielder Jakub Kiwior, transferred from the Spezia club. Unlike Trossard or Jorginho, the Polish rookie is only 22 years old and is part of a plan to build a squad of coach Mikel Artata and his teammates.

The new lineup has thickness and depth

In one transfer window, Arsenal brought in three new players to fill the positions they were missing in the squad. Now, the trio of Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Eddie Nketiah have added Trossard to split the fire when Gabriel Jesus is still injured from Emile Smith Rowe when he just returned.

In midfield, Thomas Partey no longer has to worry about Mohamed Elneny having a serious injury because he has a reliable teammate who is ready to support him, Jorginho. Rookie Jakub Kiwior will join Gabriel Magalhaes to take the position of left center.

To see how the quality of the Gunners squad has been upgraded, look at the draw between Arsenal and Newcastle on the first day of 2023. At that time, the Gunners' bench included a goalkeeper, 3 defenders, 4 young midfielders with a total of 4 starts this season, and only one striker is a 19-year-old young player who has just been loaned to Arsenal in the lower division. That draw was also a warning of a serious shortage of personnel on the attack of the Gunners when they did not know who to replace anyone on the field despite the deadlock in the scoring stage.

Now the names who could be on Arsenal's bench include Matt Turner, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Rob Holding, Kieran Tierney, Jorginho, Fabio Vieira, Leandro Trossard and Emile Smith Rowe. This is a very strong reserve squad with 5 players who started for Premier League clubs last season. Not to mention, the fact that Gabriel Jesus is expected to return later this month brings a pleasant headache for coach Arteta when Eddie Nketiah is also playing very well.

We all know that one of the main reasons Man City became the king of long-distance racing in the Premier League is because this team possesses unparalleled squad depth. The thickness of the squad will usually be proportional to the achievements of the English teams because the schedule in this tournament is extremely harsh.

Coach Mikel Arteta is gradually completing the construction of a uniform team with rotating quality names in each position. Not only the Premier League Silver Cup, surely the Gunners are also thinking of winning the Europa League this season. A squad with Arsenal depth is more confident than ever in conquering both of their arenas of attendance.

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Weakness of the opponent

While Arsenal have strengthened, their opponents have weakened after the winter transfer window. Man City, which was already short of personnel in the two full-back positions, decided to push away a pillar like Joao Cancelo due to the player's disciplinary problems. In the hands of coach Pep Guardiola now there is only one option left on the left wing, defender Nathan Ake. Supporting him is young talent Sergio Gomez who has only 100 minutes to play in the Premier League.

In the right wing corridor, the situation is not better when the old general Kyle Walker will split the fire with the 18-year-old young talent Rico Lewis. This season, Pep has repeatedly had to pull his central defenders out to the flanks and this is likely to repeat in the next matches. Letting Cancelo go will cause the Spanish strategist to lose a lot of tactical options in his hands.

Meanwhile, Manchester Red Fire also received bad news when midfielder Christian Eriksen suffered a serious injury and was sidelined for up to 3 months. They were replaced by the Bayern Munich midfielder Marcel Sabitzer. But between Eriksen and Sabitzer, there was clearly a significant disparity in both experience and class. This will be a big loss for coach Erik ten Hag. Manchester United are not only rivals to Arsenal in the Premier League but can also be a setback for the Gunners in the Europa League if they can overcome Barcelona in the playoffs.

Arsenal seem to be in good hands this season. The last winter transfer window, although it is not completely satisfactory for the Emirates Stadium team, can be considered a great success when they have added the necessary positions to their squad in the context of their competitors. The picture is weakening. The flag was in the hands of Mikel Arteta's teachers and students. If we don't win now, when will we?