Michael Owen makes Premier League title prediction after Arsenal loss to Man City

Michael Owen has dismissed claims Arsenal are 'bottlers' and backed the Gunners to win the Premier League title despite their Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City

Michael Owen doesn't believe Arsenal will lost the Premier League title from this position(Image: Chris Brunskill/Fantasista, Getty Images)

Michael Owen is backing Arsenal to secure the Premier League title with ease, despite its Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City, and has brushed off suggestions that Mikel Arteta's squad are 'bottlers'.

The former Liverpool and Manchester United forward believes the Gunners' efficiency will see them over the line. Arsenal's hopes of lifting their its silverware of the season were crushed at Wembley, as Nico O'Reilly clinched victory for Pep Guardiola's team.

Despite holding a nine-point lead over their league rivals, the north London team still has a face-off with City, who have a game in hand. Owen feels it would take an extraordinary turn of events for Guardiola's side to claw back into contention, and credits Arsenal's hard work for their current position.

Speaking to Mirror Football, Owen, who serves as the official UK ambassador for Casino.org, a site comparing the top online casinos for UK players, suggested the Carabao Cup final result won't significantly affect the title race.

"Well, it can only have a little positive impact but obviously Arsenal don't have to play Man City every week," Owen commented. "They've only got to play them once more.

"We all know that City simply have to win that game and then hope for a miracle elsewhere. I probably think City's run-in is a little bit harder than Arsenal's as well. So it looks like Arsenal are home and hosed.

"They're so efficient. I can't really see them slipping up. Everybody's saying 'oh yeah, Arsenal always slip up' and things like that. I don't buy that. Before Liverpool won a league, they came second a few times before Manchester City won a league they had to come second as well.

Arsenal suffered Carabao Cup heartbreak(Image: Stuart MacFarlane, Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

"You don't go from coming fifth in the league to winning it very often. I mean, Leicester came from nowhere to win it, but there aren't many teams that don't go through the hard yards of coming second and third and second again and then winning it, you know, it's a building process.

"So I don't buy that Arsenal are bottlers or anything else like that. I do think they'll coast to the league."

While Arsenal may have seen its quadruple hopes disappear, it is still competing for the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League. Owen admitted his relief that they're not heading for a clean sweep, as he doesn't regard the Gunners as a 'generational' side, despite being 'bloody good'.

"Obviously, they're not going to be doing the clean sweep, which If I'm honest, I'm quite pleased about because if a team are going to do the quadruple, a team are going to win a treble or something like that.

"I just think it needs to be a bloody good team, and obviously Arsenal are bloody good, but they're not like a generational team. It's not the Man City team that got 100 points or the Liverpool team that got 99 points. It wouldn't be right.

"Now if Arsenal go and win a double then fair enough, you know that's an amazing achievement and probably what they deserve if they won an FA Cup and a league. You couldn't begrudge them that but to go and win a whole host of trophies, I don't think they're quite there yet.

"They might develop to be in that, but at the moment I think they deserve a trophy or two this season. They've been the best team in the Premier League, they deserve that. If they if they win another one, then fair play to them."