Mikel Arteta has mentioned Arsenal’s essential conflict with Manchester Metropolis has been on the membership’s radar since pre-season.

Final season’s high two meet in an early-season showdown on the Etihad, with the groups at the moment positioned first and and second within the Premier League desk once more after 4 video games.

Arsenal have pushed Manchester Metropolis shut during the last two campaigns however have up to now been unable to dethrone the champions, who’ve gained every of the final 4 league titles.

Arteta, nevertheless, mentioned Arsenal ‘dreamed’ of their place as challengers when he first took cost and set turning into champions is his supply of motivation on the coaching floor.

“I get pleasure from a whole lot of time within the workplace and on the coaching floor, however it’s what it’s,” Arteta mentioned at his pre-match press convention.

“We need to be within the place we’re in, we dreamed of this years in the past and are on this place proper now. Let’s take advantage of out of it and let’s get pleasure from it.

“We’ve been getting ready for this since pre-season. Clearly, we knew the schedule and we knew that it’s extraordinarily uncommon to play in these circumstances with three large away video games in six days, nevertheless it was what it was so now we have ready for that, each bodily, mentally and tactically.

“We’re ensuring that everybody is prepared for it as a result of we’re going to wish them, particularly with the accidents that we had from the worldwide break.”

Manchester Metropolis are ‘essentially the most constant Premier League workforce ever’

Arteta is beneath no illusions over the problem his workforce face this weekend, nevertheless, as Arsenal meet a Manchester Metropolis workforce with an ideal document up to now this season.

Arteta, who spent three seasons on the teaching employees at Metropolis, believes this weekend’s opponents are the ‘most constant’ workforce in Premier League historical past.

“[It is] a extremely aggressive one. We go to the house of the champions, the workforce that I believe in Premier League historical past has been essentially the most constant ever, not solely when it comes to outcomes however when it comes to dominance and constant high performances. That is the problem, now we have to go there and show that once more we’ve made one other step and we are able to compete.”

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