Arsenal: Are the Gunners title contenders or pretenders?

For the past five seasons, the Premier League title have been won by either Manchester City or Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool. Most fervent fans have presumed the league will become a two horse race but thanks to Mikel Arteta's Arsenal, the league tittle will going to London and not Manchester or Merseyside.

At the moment, the Gunners are on top of the Premier League table with 40 points after 15 games. They're 8 points from City and a massive 15 points from 6th placed Liverpool.

Doubting their potential to be league champions will be ill-advised at the moment cause Mikel Arteta's team is really fighting hard to prove their doubters wrong.

But judging from history, Arsenal do have the tendency to lose focus when the games come thick and fast just like in the 2015/2016 season when they lost the league title to Leicester City.

No disrespect to Leicester City but Arsenal were the far better team that year but some how, they found a way to bottle it when it really matters.

This season looks similar. Arsenal have the momentum, consistency and drive to end their 20-year wait to be champions. Hoping their achieve that fate will be a boast to the Premier League which pride its self as the most competitive league in the world and not a one or two horse race tournament.

Can Arsenal really be champions? Soon we will know if Arsenal are contenders or just pretenders.

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