McManaman predicts how many trophies the Gunners will win this season
Former Liverpool star Steve McManaman doesn’t think Arsenal will win the Champions League this season as he predicts they will win two major trophies.
Arsenal are currently top of the Premier League by seven points ahead of second-placed Manchester City, who have a game in hand and are still due to face the Gunners at the Etihad Stadium in April.
Mikel Arteta’s side face the Citizens in the League Cup final at Wembley later this month, while their victory over Mansfield Town at the weekend saw them through to the FA Cup quarter-finals.
After winning the championship phase of the Champions League, Arsenal earned a draw against Bayer Leverkusen in the round of 16 and will face Bodo/Glimt or Sporting Lisbon if they qualify for the quarter-finals.
Despite the strong Champions League draw, McManaman has dismissed suggestions they could win an unprecedented quadruple and believes they will have to settle for two trophies this season.
Talk to TNT Sports After Arsenal beat Mansfield on Saturday, McManaman said: “I think Arsenal will win two trophies this season – the championship and a domestic cup. »
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Chelsea legend Joe Cole believes Arsenal will qualify for this season’s Champions League final after seeing his side out of the draw.
Cole said The locker room podcast: “All the teams that have won it in the last ten years are on one side: Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, so it opened up for Arsenal.
“I think, personally, it will be an Arsenal versus Manchester City final. I think it will be epic. I look at it, my only bet would be that Arsenal go to the final.
“I’m not sure about the other side, with Manchester City, we still don’t know because there are too many good teams.
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“Arsenal arrive in the final. They will beat Bayer Leverkusen, they are not (good) cops, Sporting or Bodo/Glimt…
“In summary, the Champions League draw, they opened it, someone rolled it into the Arsenal goal. They can’t screw it up… or can they?
‘Arsenal fans, book your tickets to Budapest, in my opinion.’
“Yes, and we knew it, but that’s the beauty of this competition. There’s the magic, the context, the opposition, the pitch, the crowd, which I think they made magnificent because they put a lot of energy, intensity, a little joke too sometimes, and that’s the beauty of this competition.”
“That’s why it’s unique, that’s why everyone loves playing it, and you have to earn it, and it took a while to make sure we had a game.”
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