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Roy Keane wants to see more from Declan Rice and advised the Arsenal players to \u201cfall out with each other\u201d to beat Manchester City to the Premier League title.<\/p>\n
The Gunners\u2019 defeat to Bournemouth<\/strong> and Manchester City\u2019s win over Chelsea<\/strong> means the two title-chasers will be level on points if Pep Guardiola\u2019s side win their game in hand and beat Arsenal in the crunch title clash next weekend.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Premier League winners and losers: Manchester City, Arsenal, West Ham, De Zerbi, Thiago, Rosenior<\/strong><\/p>\n Amid talk of Arsenal bottling the title having led the way for the vast majority of the season, Keane insists the current malaise is \u201con the players\u201d and urged Rice to show more leadership and \u201cget a grip\u201d of his teammates.<\/p>\n He told Sky Sports<\/em><\/strong>: \u201cThe position they\u2019re in is still fantastic. On the back of a tough run you come up against Bournemouth who haven\u2019t played for a while, and they\u2019re at it. You have to smell these things.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not as if Arsenal learned from the first half. They were doing the same in the second half.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd people like (Declan) Rice \u2013 we\u2019re talking about leadership skills. They\u2019ve got to get a grip of people.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are looking Arteta. The fans are nervous. No, this is on the players. The fans aren\u2019t going to go with you. The manager can only do so much. He\u2019s put a brilliant squad together. You\u2019re in a great position. Do not let this slip.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe\u2019ll find out about what kind of characters these Arsenal lads are over next three or four or five weeks; what they\u2019re made of.<\/p>\n \u201cThey need to challenge each other, not be best mates with each other but fall out with each other. Because again, if they slip up here, they\u2019ll never forgive themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Fellow pundit Jamie Carragher insists Arsenal need to get their heads right to maintain their spot at the top of the Premier League table.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing for Arsenal right now is how they are here (pointing to his head,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s been this talk all week of Manchester City (coming back), and it\u2019s how they can overcome that.<\/p>\n \u201cBut a manager is not going to change now, after being a manager for five or six years, in the next week. We know how Mikel Arteta is going to go about it.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s going to back to his strengths \u2013 the back four and maybe Declan Rice in there, causing problems and getting on the ball.<\/p>\n \u201cHis strength is not in the attacking sense. As I\u2019ve said all season, they haven\u2019t got an outstanding attacker.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Mikel Arteta \u2018nervous breakdown\u2019 contrasts with calmness of Carrick<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n