Arsenal Forward Alexis Sanchez Out For Three Weeks With Hamstring Injury

Goals from Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud put the Gunners in charge at the Emirates before a fine strike from Yaya Toure halved the deficit late on.

The £42million schemer is the Premier League’s creator-in-chief and laid on yet another two goals in his club’s 2-1 win over Manchester City on Monday night.

The Argentine has endured a stop-start season and was sidelined for seven games with a hamstring injury picked up on global duty earlier in the campaign. I think the way we played in the second half we are going to be an important team in fighting for the title. They’ve struggled with that over the last few seasons.

In all competitions, Arsenal have already scored victories over Chelsea (Community Shield), Tottenham Hotspur (League Cup), Bayern Munich (Champions League) and Leicester City, Manchester United, Everton and Manchester City (Premier League).

“When they came back to 2-1 we were a bit under pressure but I believe it was very intense for both teams”. Even if it didn’t pan out, there’s more for us to give and more for us to fight!

“We go game by game and concentrate on having a gameplan and trying to implement it. That has been our strength so far against the big teams and it makes us stronger as a unit”.

With Arsenal coming through their horrific period of injuries with the help from impressive performances of Matthieu Flamini and more notably Joel Campbell, it can be said that the team can only improve. And we have special players on the pitch that provide special moments in a match, they can conjure up that kind of genius.

“We took more risks and created chances but you can not make mistakes in these important games”, Pellegrini told the BBC.

And Mertesacker believes Arsenal’s hopes of winning the league for the first time since 2003-04 depends a lot on Ozil. We played better than Arsenal but the first shot they had was the first goal.

There are also grounds for optimism for City supporters, whose side are now six adrift of Leicester, as their run to the title in 2013-14 saw them down in third after 17 fixtures – could history repeat itself?

However, Pellegrini countered: “I don’t know about statistics, but of course we are not out of the title race”.