“It is very open, only Chelsea can lose it now because they are in front and all the other teams can win it. I’ve always said many teams are in it and it will be very tight until the end,” asserted Wenger.
This season has seen both Brendan Rodgers and –notably – Jose Mourinho repeatedly state that they are not in the running for the title; an insistence that Wenger puts down to fear of failure.
“It’s a fear to fail,” he said of the comments.
“If you’re not in the race you cannot lose it, if you declare yourself not in the race you cannot lose it, simple as that.”
However Wenger believes that his side are firmly in the running for a first title since 2004.
“I think just that our job is to be ambitious and to try to win, if we do not win to take full responsibility for that. That’s as simple as that and that’s how I see it,” said the Frenchman.
“I say yes we are in it, yes we will have a go for it, we will absolutely give everything to go for it and if we don’t do it I will take responsibility for it, but I just see it like that.”
“We live in a league and in a country where we have one advantage – everybody can think what he wants, (but) it is very difficult when you’re first in the league to distract people.”
Arsenal’s title chance took a hit with their 5-1 loss to Liverpool at Anfield last weekend, but Wenger insisted that the FA Cup provides a chance for the side to put things right, before rejecting suggestions that he would focus on the title and Champions League to the detriment of the FA Cup.
“No, it’s the first team we want to play,” replied Wenger when asked his thoughts on facing Liverpool.
“When you can put things right, what you want is an opportunity to do that and we have that opportunity.”
“We will go for any competition we can and the FA Cup is one of the competitions, since it’s our next game, of course, we will go for it.”
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