Which team to win Premier League title? Know from a sports journalist

Result of upcoming match between Manchester City and Tottenham on Tuesday will have no effect on Arsenal as they can lift the trophy

Arsenal secured a narrow 1-0 victory at Old Trafford in a crucial match against Manchester United on Sunday.

The win is Arsenal’s 18th clean sheet of the season. The remarkable achievement sets them apart from any other Premier League club. The Gunners now have a chance to lift the Premier League title on the final day of the campaign, regardless of Manchester City’s upcoming result against Tottenham on Tuesday.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast, ESPN journalist Mark Ogden praised Arsenal’s defensive skill. “They’ve been doing what title-winning teams do – they’ve got results without playing as well as you’d expect them to,” he said.

“With Arsenal, everyone is blinded by the Invincibles team [of 2003-04] and the Arsene Wenger teams that were brilliant to watch and won by two or three goals away from home, but this is a bit more like the George Graham Arsenal. [On Sunday] there were two banks of four against a Manchester United team that hasn’t got a cutting edge, and they were so rigid defensively, but that’s what you need in a title-winning team.”

“That’s what Arteta has done really well – he’s taken away that soft centre that Arsenal had for so long and he’s made them tough to beat. That is the building block of any title-winning team. We can talk about the goals they score and how exciting some teams are, but if you can’t defend, you can’t win anything,” he stressed.