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Mikel Arteta joined an Arsenal team heading towards the relegation zone late last year. The rookie coach managed to transform their performances and helped them finish the season eighth in the league table and win the FA Cup.
The Gunners were 43 points behind eventual league winners Liverpool, which has one of the best rosters in the Premier League.
They beat the Reds before the end of the final Premier League season and beat them again on penalties at the Community Shield.
Both teams will meet again on Monday and Mikel Arteta recognizes that his team cannot close such a big gap in a short period of time.
However, they will constantly keep trying to get as many points as they can and hopefully Liverpool will also lower their performance level, making catching them easier.
“I do not know if in the history of football someone has closed a gap of 43 points if it maintains the same level in just a few months,” Arteta was quoted as saying by the Mail.
‘Obviously what you hope to do is be much better and more consistent and then they can lower the level a bit, and then the gap is not that big.
But we can control what we can control, which are our performances and our level of consistency. We will do everything possible to try to be much better than last year ”.
The Gunners will also face the Reds in the Carabao Cup at Anfield during the week and Arteta will hope to win at least one of these games.
