Arsenal legend Tony Adams makes ultra confident Premier League title prediction

‘Mr Arsenal’ Tony Adams is confident his old side are set to end a 22-year wait to win the Premier League title after Mikel Arteta’s men returned to winning ways against Leeds United on Saturday.

The Gunners, temporarily at least, restored their seven-point lead at the top of the table following a crushing 4-0 victory at Elland Road.

After going three games without a maximum haul and losing at home for the first time this season against Manchester United last weekend, the Gunners and Mikel Arteta were firmly under the microscope.

Despite losing Bukayo Saka before kick-off due an injury sustained in the warm-up, Arsenal sent out a defiant message with their most convincing away win of the campaign so far.

Aston Villa and Manchester City both have the chance to cut the gap on Sunday, but Adams feels both challengers won’t last the pace in the long-run.

‘I don’t think that will be an issue because I don’t see any challengers in sight,’ Adams, who skippered four different Arsenal title-winning sides, told talkSPORT.

‘I don’t think defensively City are good enough, they’re having too many parts of their programme fall away.

‘They’re not just going to run now and have the 10-game winning sequence you need to go and win the league.

‘I can’t see Villa maintaining it even though Rogers is a great player and it’s great for England. I really do like the way they hold lines their backline is very strong, he’s a great manager as well. I just don’t see them sustaining it with the squad scenario.

‘I do think the others will fall away and Arsenal will run to the finish line.’

Should Arsenal get over the line, Martin Odegaard will be the man to receive the trophy.

Adams has been critical of the Norway captain in the past and even suggested the Arsenal armband should be warn by Declan Rice instead but the 59-year-old insists his words were misinterpreted.

He said: ‘They misunderstood it the public did.

‘It would have made Odegaard relieved [of captaincy burden], but I think he’s been a better player this year for it than maybe my comments.’

Reflecting on what he previously said about Odegaard, Adams remarked: ‘I just said, ‘Maybe it should be Declan,’ and I said this about Harry Kane for the England team as well.

‘When you’ve got a forward, sometimes you need to mix it up, you need to change things – put a faster player on or a bigger player for crosses or someone that can create things.

‘And he’s [Odegaard] part of that process and he’s a Dennis Bergkamp [type of player], he’s a talented, talented player.

‘But he’s not going to be on the pitch 24/7, so I just went for Gabriel [Magalhaes] or Declan Rice [to replace Odegaard as captain], that was my argument.

‘He wasn’t positive [with the ball last campaign], but he has been this season, he really does put the ball in now.

‘It was like he was hesitating and hesitating and he was slowing play up, but this season, I’ve seen a significant change in him.’