Mikel Arteta has just done Andoni Iraola’s Liverpool v Arsenal team talk for him with bold Anfield claim

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The Spaniard was famously ridiculed by Liverpool supporters after their team beat Arsenal to the Premier League title in 2025, and though he has since answered back to the ‘always the bridesmaid’ jibe by winning the title with the Gunners, Reds fans remain unimpressed by him both as a manager and as a personality.Part of the reason Arteta riles people up is because of the way he sets his team up. But despite their failure to win at the home of the Reds in the Premier League since 2012, Arteta has now confidently claimed that his side will beat Liverpool this weekend.

Arteta ‘convinced’ that Arsenal will beat Liverpool It is fair enough for any manager to have confidence that his team can win on any given day. Reminded that Arsenal’s record away at Liverpool was about as bad as it gets, Arteta remained in bullish mode, claiming that he and his team have turned around similarly poor records at stadiums all over the country since his appointment in 2019.

Confidence is one thing, but Arteta appears to have decided already that Arsenal have won this match. In fairness to the Arsenal manager he did have some words of praise for Liverpool as well, declaring that: “They have the ingredients to be up there challenging for any trophy that they participate in.