Michael Owen 'does not buy' Arsenal title claim after Man City loss

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Michael Owen is confident that Arsenal will comfortably clinch the Premier League title, despite their Carabao Cup final loss to Manchester City , and dismissed the idea that Mikel Arteta's team are 'bottlers' . The ex-Liverpool and Manchester United striker has backed the Gunners to cross the finish line due to their effectiveness.

Arsenal missed out on their first trophy of the season as they fell short at Wembley, with Nico O'Reilly securing victory for Pep Guardiola's side . The north London outfit hold a nine-point advantage over their rivals in the league, but still have to face City, who have a game in hand.

Owen reckons it would take a miracle for Guardiola's team to find an opening, and believes Arsenal have put in the graft to reach this point. Speaking to Mirror Football , Owen, the official UK ambassador for Casino.org, a comparison website highlighting the best online casinos for UK players suggested the Carabao Cup final would have little impact on the run-in.

"Well, it can only have a little positive impact but obviously Arsenal don't have to play Man City every week," Owen said. "They've only got to play them once more.

"We all know that City simply have to win that game and then hope for a miracle elsewhere. I probably think City's run-in is a little bit harder than Arsenal's as well. So it looks like Arsenal are home and hosed.

"They're so efficient. I can't really see them slipping up. Everybody's saying 'oh yeah, Arsenal always slip up' and things like that. I don't buy that. Before Liverpool won a league, they came second a few times before Manchester City won a league they had to come second as well.

"You don't go from coming fifth in the league to winning it very often. I mean, Leicester came from nowhere to win it, but there's not many teams that don't go through the hard yards of coming second and third and second again and then winning it, you know, it's a building process.

"So I don't buy that Arsenal are bottlers or anything else like that. I do think they'll coast to the league.

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Whilst Arsenal may have lost their chance at a quadruple, they remain in the running for the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League . Owen expressed relief that they aren't on track for a clean sweep, as he doesn't view the Gunners as a 'generational' team, despite being 'bloody good'.

"Obviously, they're not going to be doing the clean sweep, which If I'm honest, I'm quite pleased about because if a team are going to do the quadruple, a team are going to win a treble or something like that. I just think it needs to be a bloody good team, and obviously Arsenal are bloody good, but they're not like a generational team. It's not the Man City team that got 100 points or the Liverpool team that got 99 points. It wouldn't be right.

"Now if Arsenal go and win a double then fair enough, you know that's an amazing achievement and probably what they deserve if they won an FA Cup and a league. You couldn't begrudge them that but to go and win a whole host of trophies, I don't think they're quite there yet."

"They might develop to be in that, but at the moment I think they deserve a trophy or two this season. They've been the best team in the Premier League, they deserve that. If they if they win another one, then fair play to them."