"In this journey, you are never going to be at the level for 70 games of the season but you have to be at the best you can. The small details, the basics. This is a rollercoaster of a season. You can't be naive to think this is going to be easy. We are playing against the best teams week in, week out. We have to keep pushing and believing in ourselves, controlling the controllable."
"We have to block out the outside noise. We have done that really well. People are going to talk up the title race and Arsenal but we have a really calm group. I'm not naive to think Brentford are a pushover. They are one of the best teams in the league and their recent form shows that. It's a point gained in our journey, but we wanted to win the game."
Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw by Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium, with Keane Lewis-Potter cancelling Noni Madueke's opener. Manchester City's recent wins cut Arsenal's lead to four points ahead of the FA Cup break. Opta assigns Arsenal an 85.8% chance of winning the league despite growing pressure. Arsenal registered their biggest negative xG difference (-0.75) of the season in the match (Brentford 1.35 xG; Arsenal 0.6 xG). The squad emphasizes controlling controllable details, blocking out outside noise, maintaining basics and belief, and treating the draw as a point gained while aiming for wins.
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