Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale has declared that his team will continue to fight for the title until the very end, despite Manchester City being the “benchmark” for every other team.
Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale has vowed that his team will not give up on their title aspirations until the very end, despite their crushing 4-1 defeat to Manchester City on Wednesday.
Ramsdale admitted that City is currently the “benchmark” for every other team in the league, but he expressed his disappointment that Arsenal did not compete enough at the Etihad Stadium.
Speaking to reporters after the match, Ramsdale said, “We’re going to be disappointed now but we haven’t played nine months of Premier League football and played the way we wanted to play to give up with five games to go.”
He added, “You see how tight it is at the bottom, you see how tight it is at the top so we are going to be pushing every game – with five games left and we need to win five games – and we will see how that ends at the end of the season.”
Ramsdale emphasized that his team cannot afford to feel sorry for themselves, and they will have to work harder to achieve their goals. “We can’t feel sorry for ourselves,” he continued. “We’ll get over it, and the manager will do what the manager does and dissect it, and tell us, and we will do everything we can.”
While acknowledging City’s dominance, Ramsdale stressed that Arsenal is determined to compete at the highest level and emulate City’s success. “City are the benchmark and have been one of the best teams in the league for the past five years,” he said. “They could potentially do a Treble.”
Despite his team’s disappointment, Ramsdale remained optimistic about Arsenal’s chances of success. “Disappointment is the key word,” he said. “We know we are better than that, but also this is where we want to be, and the team we want to be like and be competing with.”
Ramsdale also acknowledged that Arsenal was not at their best during the first half of the match, but he remained hopeful that his team will bounce back. “It’s the first time I’ve played here as an Arsenal player, and just for the first 45 minutes, we were a yard off the pace in pressing, in battles, in giving them chances,” he said. “If you want to come here and get anything, you need to be on it in everything, and for 45 minutes, we were just a bit off.”