{"id":2904,"date":"2026-04-20T00:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:43:50","slug":"we-are-not-going-to-give-up-mikel-arteta-says-arsenal-players-are-now-more-convinced-they-can-win-the-title-despite-their-crushing-defeat-at-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2904","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are not going to give up!\u201d \u00bb &#8211; Mikel Arteta says Arsenal players are &#8216;now more convinced&#8217; they can win the title, despite their crushing defeat at Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Manchester City&#8217;s victory, sealed by Erling Haaland&#8217;s second-half goal, reduced the gap at the top of the table to three points. The Citizens, who have a game in hand, could even overtake Arsenal on goal difference if they succeed against Burnley in midweek. Despite this turnaround, Mikel Arteta keeps his cool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>\u201cI believe it today, I believed it on Wednesday, a week ago, because I see them every day and I know our level,\u201d explained the Arsenal coach. \u201cBut today, if (the players) needed to be more convinced, I think they are now. They were talking about it in the locker room.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>It&#8217;s a new championship now. They have a late game. We have a three-point lead with five games to play. So everything remains to be played. We&#8217;re not going to stop and we&#8217;re going to get going again, that&#8217;s for sure. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City&#8217;s victory, sealed by Erling Haaland&#8217;s second-half goal, reduced the gap at the top of the table to three points. The Citizens, who have a game in hand, could even overtake Arsenal on goal difference if they succeed against Burnley in midweek. Despite this turnaround, Mikel Arteta keeps his cool. \u201cI believe it today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}