Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Jamie O’Hara believes “Arsenal will crumble” if Mikel Arteta’s side are beaten in the north London derby.
The Gunners travel to face Spurs at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday evening.
Fourth-placed Arsenal go into this game four points clear of their rivals with three games to go.
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Arteta’s side will guarantee themselves Champions League football if they pick up three points against their rivals.
If they lose though, they will only have a one-point advantage heading into the last two games of the season.
O’Hara thinks Spurs will “win comfortably” on Thursday if they “turn up”. If this happens, he has suggested that Arsenal will “fall apart” during the run-in:
“They’ll crumble. If we win, they’ll fall apart. I’m telling you, they’ll lose another one or draw, and they’ll miss out,” O’Hara told The Daily Mail.
“They’ve got Newcastle away – that’s no easy fixture – and Everton are fighting. We win this game, I think Arsenal will drop points. Our fixtures, we should go on and win them.
“If the right Tottenham turns up at home, we win this game comfortably – 2-0 or 3-0. You just don’t know what team turns up. With all this pressure we could go out and be flat as a pancake. When you look at Man City or Liverpool, they never drop below seven or eight out of 10. Tottenham have too many players who can be an eight, then the next week they can be a four. That’s why we’ve had a few stinking results.”
O’Hara went onto claim that the team that finishes fourth have the chance to “kick on”:
“A Champions League spot is everything – in terms of finances, in terms of luring players, keeping your manager.
“My worry is this Arsenal team are at the start of a journey. If they get top four, that’s amazing season for them and they could kick on after this. Spurs maybe miss out on…
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