EPL: Walcott picks game that will decide title winners

Former Arsenal winger, Theo Walcott, has claimed that the Carabao Cup last would beryllium captious successful deciding this year’s Premier League champions.

Walcott, successful a chat with Monday Night Club presenter Mark Chapman, expressed content that the lucifer would acceptable the code for the remainder of the campaign.

According to Chapman, if Mikel Arteta’s men mislaid the crippled to Manchester City connected March, it would summation “the noise” astir the team.

Walcott replied, “That’s the crippled – the 1 that fundamentally sets the code for however this full twelvemonth is going to look for Arsenal.”

But a erstwhile Premier League striker Chris Sutton said: “I truly don’t deliberation the League Cup last has immoderate bearing connected the Premier League.”

The Carabao Cup last volition beryllium played a fewer weeks earlier City big the Gunners successful the Premier League connected April 18.

EPL: Walcott picks crippled that volition determine rubric winners