EPL: Ian Wright makes shock title prediction after Man City beat Burnley

Former England striker, Ian Wright, is backing Arsenal to win the Premier League despite dropping into second place.

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Wright believes the Gunners will have enough to win the title, even if it is a case of “creeping over the line”.

Mikel Arteta’s men will go into this weekend behind Manchester City, who beat Burnley 1-0 on Wednesday night.

But City are only ahead by goals scored, as the two teams are tied on goal difference and points.

“I’m gonna go with: we’re going to win the league,” Wright replied when asked for his title prediction on Stick to Football.

“The chances we created against that City side, I think we could do the same against the teams coming. Obviously we’re going to have to be a lot more ruthless with taking our chances.

“But before that, leading into that, I didn’t see us creating enough chances in the games leading into that, in a time where with the history of what we’re doing in this stage of the season, we’ve kind of faltered.

“I thought in that Man City game, the big game, we created enough chances where if we do that against other teams and get ourselves back to that defensive solidity that we had before leading into this part of the season and finish this with ruthlessness.

“We started the season with ruthlessness with people saying, “Oh, it’s Arsenal’s, it’s Arsenal’s to lose”, everybody was saying it, because we looked absolutely faultless in the way we were.

“Now, everybody’s faltering and in this City game I thought we did enough. if we can play like that, even if we’re trying to creep over the line, we can probably do it.”