EPL: ‘Remind yourselves where you are’ – Patrick Vieira tells Arsenal players

Arsenal icon Patrick Vieira has encouraged the Gunners to bespeak connected their existent presumption successful the season, particularly successful airy of their caller struggles.

His remarks came aft Manchester City displaced Mikel Arteta and his squad from the apical of the Premier League standings, pursuing a 1-0 triumph implicit Burnley connected April 22.

The Gunners person been a ascendant unit for the bulk of the season, having held the apical presumption successful the league for implicit 200 days.

They person besides precocious to the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League and person a important accidental to unafraid a double.

Nevertheless, Arsenal has faced challenges successful caller weeks, suffering defeats successful 4 of their past six matches crossed each competitions.

This includes 2 losses to Manchester City during this stretch, 1 of which was successful the EFL Cup final, and an elimination from the FA Cup quarter-finals astatine the hands of Southampton.

After witnessing his erstwhile squad suffer their pb successful the standings, Vieira expressed to the club’s authoritative website (via Daily Mirror), “I deliberation I conscionable privation them to punctual themselves wherever they are and wherefore they are wherever they are.

“Meaning that they are astatine the apical of the league, they are successful the semi-final of the Champions League, and you can’t scope that level with nary quality, with nary squad tone and with nary togetherness.

“It’s astir winning games, they...