{"id":1681243,"date":"2022-10-10T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1681243"},"modified":"2022-10-10T07:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:50:54","slug":"soccer-arsenal-young-guns-show-more-resolve-to-confirm-title-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-arsenal-young-guns-show-more-resolve-to-confirm-title-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Arsenal young guns show more resolve to confirm title ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoccer-arsenal-young-guns-show-more-resolve-to-confirm-title-ambitions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1681243&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Richard Martin<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Arsenal 3-2 win over Liverpool not only took them back to the top of the Premier League but showed Mikel Arteta\u2019s side have added backbone and self-belief to their thrilling brand of football, making them title contenders at last.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Arsenal have sometimes been one of the Premier League\u2019s most exciting teams but have been characterised for their mental fragility and their tendency to crumble against top opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Not any more. In a pulsating match against Juergen Klopp\u2019s side, who pushed Manchester City all the way in last season\u2019s title race, they recovered twice from surrendering the lead to come out on top.<\/p>\n<p>It was only the second time Arsenal have beaten Liverpool in the Premier League in the last seven years but the performance confirmed the team\u2019s new-found resolve.<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth consecutive home game in the league, they have either fallen behind or conceded an equaliser but still gone on to win, beating Fulham, Aston Villa and north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur before their latest scalp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw a team I really identify with, the personality they show in difficult moments,\u201d said Arteta. <\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have been renowned for blooding young players since Arsene Wenger became manager in 1996 although a lack of success since their last league title in 2004 has often been put down to not having enough senior players.<\/p>\n<p>But Arteta\u2019s team are also characterised by their youthful nature. The average age of their starting line-up on Sunday was 24, with goalscorers Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka each being 21.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between this side and the under-achieving teams towards the end of Wenger\u2019s reign is their experience. Martinelli made his debut in 2019 while Saka has been a regular since the 2019-20 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The winger missed England\u2019s final penalty in the Euro 2020 final penalty shootout but barely flinched when he stepped up to score the winning goal against Liverpool from the spot.<\/p>\n<p>UNLIKELY FORTRESS<\/p>\n<p>Another factor behind Arsenal\u2019s rise this season has been the attitude of the supporters, who have turned their ground into an unlikely fortress, winning all six games there this season in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s previous ground Highbury was jokingly referred to by rival supporters as the library and the 60,000-capacity Emirates Stadium, which they moved into in 2006, has also been mocked for a lack of atmosphere and fans leaving early or lashing out at their own players when results went against them.<\/p>\n<p>How times change. The home fans rose to their feet to rally their team after Roberto Firmino and Darwin Nunez\u2019s equalisers on Sunday and Arteta said the fans played a huge part in the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen it like this,\u201d added the manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot imagine how much it helps the players and how much belief and confidence, how much support it gives us. It\u2019s one of the nicest things we\u2019ve done since we\u2019ve been together here \u2013 to unite everybody and feel like you go here and you\u2019re going to have some experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Richard Martin; Editing by Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/soccer-arsenal-young-guns-show\/attachment\/premier-league-arsenal-v-liverpool-12\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI990MM-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI990MM-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Martin (Reuters) \u2013 Arsenal 3-2 win over Liverpool not only took them back to the top of the Premier League but showed Mikel Arteta\u2019s side have added backbone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}