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«LONDON — Manchester United kept a firm grip on the Premier League title race by sweeping to a 4 - 0 win at Wigan Athletic on the first day of 2013 to maintain their seven - point lead.»

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It looks to me like Arsenal will be the only team from the current top three of the Premier League that will have anything but the Premier League title race to worry about by next week, always assuming that the Gunners manage to get past Watford at the Emirates stadium on Sunday, but how will that affect things?

It sometimes seems like Leicester City are on top of the League by default, with Arsenal, Man City and Man United continually dropping crucial points in the title race, but Arsenal are still sitting pretty just two points behind the leaders.

But Spurs and their long suffering fans will probably be happy about the recent comments from Campbell on the current title race, reported by Metro, because he reckons it could be heading towards the first time since Arsene Wenger took charge that the spuds finish above Arsenal in the Premier League table.

The Gunners have always got through those play - off games even though it was sometimes a close call, but for the first time in two decades the Gunners will not be involved with the elite of Europe and Arsene Wenger has admitted that this is not good, in a report by The Mirror, but he also played it down a little bit by claiming that the English Premier League and the title race is now more important and more of interest to fans than the UCL and maybe the fact that Arsenal have not looked remotely like winning it since we lost to Barcelona in the final makes that true.

It is no secret that Liverpool have fallen back a long way since last season, when — powered on by Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge — they finished a close second to Manchester City in the Premier League title race.

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Here's a little reminder for whats in store in the coming months: More injuries, followed by a big dip in form, We drop out of the title race and out of the champions league and there will be no signings in the January window.

The former teammates come head - to - head this weekend in a clash that could have significant consequences on this season's Premier League title race, with the Blues currently leading at the top of the table by nine points.

There are various theories about why the Gunners keep falling short in the race for the Premier League title and our various and numerous injury problems certainly do not help, but it is the way that the team fails to turn up at times in crucial games, such as the EPL defeat by Wartford recently or the Champions League hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich that many will point to as evidence that the boss is not getting the best from his squad anymore.

When he was challenged about his statement by one of the reporters at the Arsenal press conference yesterday, Arsene Wenger chose to back up a little and say that you can never rule out any club from the Premier League title race at this early stage of the season.

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Tottenham Hotspur welcome Bournemouth to White Hart Lane on Sunday having seen the gauntlet thrown down by Leicester City in the Premier League title race.

Stoke City gave an early Christmas present to Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool on Saturday by beating Manchester City 2 - 0 to leave the Premier League title race wide open.

The Red Devils remain in the hunt for silverware with the FA Cup and Champions League this season, but they haven't been able to keep up with the pace set by rivals Man City in the Premier League title race.

So when he was asked about the Premier League title race, which all of us Arsenal fans were expecting us to make a much better go at this season, the former France striker declared that he still thinks we will be up there, as reported by The Express.

Arsenal are still fighting to stay in the race for the Premiership title after being eliminated from both the FA Cup and the Champions League in one cruel week, but Arsene Wenger firmly believes that this top quality Arsenal team is now fully primed and ready to aim for the top spot by the end of the season.

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Arsenal received a massive setback in the race for the League title by losing at Old Trafford, but Arsene Wenger thinks that his team showed a lot of commitment but lost to a bad couple of goals too quickly to come back from.

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PSV trail Twente by two points and with four more rounds to play in the league, the race to the title may well go down to the wire.

Despite striving yet again to throw away a golden opportunity by squandering a 3 - 1 lead away at arch rivals Tottenham in midweek, 24 hours after league leaders Manchester United could only manage a 0 - 0 draw with Newcastle at St James» Park, Arsenal still find themselves in this title race, not that anyone knows how.

Only six Premier League wins since the turn of the year has seen Arsenal drop out of the title race, a ignominy augmented by elimination from the Champions League in the Round of 16 for the fifth consecutive year.

For now the Argentina is focused on the Premier League title race but next season is looming and he would deal a significant blow to Arsenal, even if it is just psychological, by landing the Spaniard.

Dimitar Berbatov raced out of the blocks by scoring six goals in his opening five league matches but hasn't scored since his sublime hat - trick against Liverpool at Old Trafford back in September, while Mexican starlet Javier Hernandez is a player for the future and not a striker expected to score the goals needed to spearhead United's title bid.

As for Real's prospects, he agrees with his coach, Italian Carlo Ancelotti, who said the other day that Real's prospects of success in the Champions League were higher than in the Spanish league title race where the Madrid club currently trail eternal rivals, Barcelona, by two points, sLeague were higher than in the Spanish league title race where the Madrid club currently trail eternal rivals, Barcelona, by two points, sleague title race where the Madrid club currently trail eternal rivals, Barcelona, by two points, saying:

After being humbled by Watford in the FA Cup and crashing out of the Champions League against Barcelona, this win keeps Arsenal hanging on to the coattails of Leicester City and Tottenham in the Premier League title race.

In spite of the fact his team are five points off the pace currently set by Manchester United at the top of the league, and even though he's overseen Chelsea's worst first half to the a Premiership season since 2001/2002, Carlo Ancelotti insists Chelsea are still involved in this intriguing race for the that title and that they will fight to the very death as they look to defend their crown.