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Arsenal guardant Bukayo Saka says "this is the year" the Gunners volition extremity their 21-year hold for a Premier League title.
Mikel Arteta's broadside person finished 2nd down Manchester City for the past 2 seasons and person not lifted the trophy since Arsene Wenger's 'invincibles' broadside of 2003-04.
They are presently 3rd successful the table, level connected points with second-placed City and a constituent down leaders Liverpool aft six games.
"I don't privation to enactment excessively overmuch unit connected america but I bash deliberation that this is the twelvemonth [Arsenal triumph the title]," Saka told CBS Sports.
"I deliberation we've been adjacent the past 2 years and we're getting closer, but this hopefully volition beryllium the year."
As good arsenic finishing 2nd successful the Premier League, Saka was besides portion of the England squad that mislaid back-to-back European Championship finals successful 2021 and 2024.
The 23-year-old says that disappointment is fuelling his determination to triumph trophies this campaign, with results specified arsenic Tuesday's 2-0 Champions League triumph against Paris St-Germain impervious they tin vie with the champion teams.
"Previous years, I've travel runners-up a lot. It's conscionable that tone successful maine that I privation to triumph this play and of course, I judge successful myself a lot," helium told Amazon Prime.
"With those 2 things, it helps. We judge successful ourselves, we judge we're a apical team. We showed that contiguous [against Paris St-Germain]. I did archer the boys we person to marque a connection erstwhile large teams are coming to the Emirates."
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