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Ian Wright has made his Premier League title prediction after Arsenal lost to Manchester City on Sunday and told three Gunners players to \u201cstep up\u201d in the race.<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland scored the winner in the crunch clash at the Etihad<\/strong> and again in the tense 1-0 win over Burnley on Wednesday<\/strong>which saw Pep Guardiola\u2019s side take top spot in the Premier League on goals scored.<\/p>\n Wright was downcast on the back of Arsenal\u2019s defeat to Bournemouth but is more upbeat after the loss to City, insisting the Gunners \u201cplayed well enough to win the game\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI was obviously very emotional last time (on the last show), I was very emotional about it. But leading into that was obviously Southampton and Bournemouth so I was reeling off of that, and it wasn\u2019t great against Sporting,\u201d Wright said on The Overlap<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I said in the last show that I just wanted to see something from us, show us that you can do something, you can give us something.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we\u2019d won the game previously and done well getting to Manchester City, there\u2019s never going to be the: it\u2019s decided on the Manchester City game. You want to try and get that cushion so when you play that game, whatever happens, you\u2019re okay because you\u2019ll beat the rest.<\/p>\n \u201cSo leading into that and the way we played, obviously, I was disappointed. But we played well enough to win the game, we should have at least got the draw out of that game.\u201d<\/p>\n Wright claims Arsenal\u2019s lack of \u201cruthlessness\u201d cost them in the title showdown.<\/p>\n \u201cWatching Eze, (Martin) Odegaard and Havertz, we created the kind of chances that we should have taken. We should have taken them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you watch City, they do give chances up and if you\u2019re going to be ruthless, you take them and Arsenal could have won that game.<\/p>\n \u201cHaaland had one chance, bam, took it, so I\u2019m a lot better now because now what they\u2019ve got to do is be ruthless with everything.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: Every Premier League club\u2019s biggest game of the season: Spurs, Arsenal\u2019s next<\/strong><\/p>\n And Wright believes Arsenal will \u201ccreep over the line\u201d and pip City to the Premier League title.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m gonna go with: we\u2019re going to win the league,\u201d he said when asked for his title prediction.<\/p>\n \u201cThe chances we created against that City side, I think we could do the same against the teams coming. Obviously we\u2019re going to have to be a lot more ruthless with taking our chances.<\/p>\n \u201cBut before that, leading into that, I didn\u2019t see us creating enough chances in the games leading into that, in a time where with the history of what we\u2019re doing in this stage of the season, we\u2019ve kind of faltered.<\/p>\n \u201cI 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.<\/p>\n \u201cWe started the season with ruthlessness with people saying, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s Arsenal\u2019s, it\u2019s Arsenal\u2019s to lose\u2019, everybody was saying it, because we looked absolutely faultless in the way we were.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, everybody\u2019s faltering and in this City game I thought we did enough. if we can play like that, even if we\u2019re trying to creep over the line, we can probably do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Wright wants to see three Arsenal players with experience of winning titles to step up to the plate.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to find the fight,\u201d Wright continued.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got Piero Hincapie who has won the Bundesliga, we\u2019ve got Gabriel Jesus and we\u2019ve got Jurrien Timber who has won in Holland, three players who have seen it off.<\/p>\n \u201cThey need to step into that team and try to make them understand what it\u2019s going to take to finish this off because everybody in there will be having doubts, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that.\u201d<\/p>\n Predicting the result of their clash with Newcastle on Saturday, Wright concluded: \u201cWe\u2019re winning this game, either 2-0 or 3-0. I think we have (got that in us)\u2026 3-0! We need that kind of result.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Merson names major advantage Arsenal still have over Man City in title race despite ceding top spot<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n