Former Arsenal ace, Paul Merson has issued a warning to manager Mikel Arteta that his team are out of the Premier League title race if they lose to Liverpool on Sunday.
Arsenal head to the game following a shock 2-0 defeat to Bournemouth last weekend.
The Gunners already find themselves four points off the early league leaders Liverpool.
Speaking ahead of this weekend’s clash between both teams, Merson suggested that another defeat would end Arsenal’s title race as Liverpool would go seven points ahead.
“I’d be shocked If Arsenal lost this and went on and won the league,” Merson told Sky Sports. “I’d be absolutely amazed, I’d be flabbergasted.
“They are not just chasing one team down, they are chasing two [Liverpool and Manchester City]. I know everybody will be sitting at home going, “There’s 29 games left,” but at the start of the season when there were 38 games left, if I said I will have Man City and Liverpool to win the league and you can have Arsenal but you’ve got to give me seven points head start, you wouldn’t do it in a million years, so you wouldn’t do it now with 29 games to go.
“Arsenal would be out of the title [race] for me, they’d be out, I just can’t see how they’d catch that up with the figures that Man City have put up over the past five or six years.”
