'It's still too early' - Arteta shuts down title race discussions - video Dailymotion

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta insists it's 'still too early' to talk about the Premier League title race.

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00:00The feeling was you go to Newcastle, if you lose in Newcastle, the Premier League is over.

00:06And one week later, you are where you are.

00:09So, honestly, let's focus on what we can control, focus on our performance,

00:14focus on delivering and achieving what we want to achieve daily.

00:18And the rest, I mean, it's 30 games, it's still 2-0, so many things are going to happen.

00:23And emotionally, we cannot be dragged into these things because we have much more important things to do.

00:28Do you have micro-doses of that, of what happens in Newcastle for a few years,

00:32what happens against West Ham, what happens against City when we cannot beat them?

00:36It's a lot of situations.

00:38And then we have learned from that.

00:39And then the ultimate goal, if we do a lot of the small things well, it will come.