Jamie Carragher claims that Erling Haaland’s absence is the greatest obstacle to Arsenal’s Premier League title chances. The Gunners are top of the Premier League after eight matches, with a three point gap over Manchester United. City, having taken full advantage of Liverpool losing three league games on the bounce.Although Liverpool posed the greatest threat to Arsenal at the start of the season, after winning the Premier League last term and splashing out over £450million on new players in the summer, Carragher is backing Manchester City to pose more problems for the Gunners — solely because of Haaland.Arsenal came into the season concerned that Liverpool would be the biggest obstacle to ending their 21-year wait for a title. Now their biggest fear might be Erling Haaland,’ Carragher wrote in his column for The Telegraph.Manchester City are the team that is most likely to win the title. Arsenal has the strongest squad of the contenders, while Liverpool needs to fix some well-documented problems. City The most dynamic and influential attacker. ‘The Norwegian is the biggest reason why Pep Guardiola’s side have a great chance of reclaiming their crown. Without him. City’s most realistic target would be finishing in the top four. Jamie Carragher believes Erling Haaland will be the biggest obstacle to Arsenal’s title chances. The Gunners are currently top of the Premier League, three points clear of Manchester. City Carragher says that Haaland, the most prolific goal-scorer in England history is still the greatest.’The City The Manchester United star has a record of 15 goals in 11 matches across all competitions. City’s eight Premier League matches to date, only failing to find the net during Tottenham’s 2-0 win in August.While the Norwegian has netted 11 Premier League goals, his team-mates have only chipped in six more — and all in matches where Haaland has already found to net. When a team that’s battling for the title looks so reliant on one player, it is usually a cause for concern. Guardiola is going to feel blessed’, Carragher continued.Haaland can make a difference in every game he plays. He is the lethal finisher for this generation. This is why he’s already deserving of comparisons to past legends.’The ex-Liverpool defender then went on to say that Haaland belongs in the same category of legends as Thierry Henri and Ian Rush because his goals have led to Manchester. City The ex-Liverpool star has placed Haaland in the same category as Arsenal icon Thierry Henry. Haaland has scored an incredible 15 goals across all competitions this campaign. Haaland is now in the same league as Arsenal legend Thierry Henry, according to the ex-Liverpool player. Haaland scored 15 goals across all competitions in 11 games this season. Shearer led Blackburn Rovers into the Premier League back in 1995. He then moved to Newcastle where he scored most of his 260 goal totals without winning a title. Lineker, like Kane, has never won a domestic championship.’Between them, Lineker, Shearer and Kane were the league’s top goalscorer on nine occasions, with just one trophy to show for it across those particular seasons,’ he added.’That is why in the pantheon of the greats, the likes of Henry and Ian Rush – who are revered as part of legendary teams – can argue their goalscoring records carried more weight, albeit Henry was a much different profile of attacker to the others.Haaland is already in the Rush and Henry category in terms of his goal output because of his medal collection, which is bound to get bigger.Despite Carragher claiming that Guardiola will be ‘blessed,’ the Manchester United star is likely to feel even more blessed. City The boss warned his players that they couldn’t rely solely upon Haaland to score goals.‘We cannot do good things with just Erling,’ Guardiola spoke after his team’s 2-0 victory against Everton in which Haaland scored the two goals.‘Our other players have to make a step up. The chances we create are so clear. They have to score at that level.’ Pep Guardiola has told his players to step up, and not depend solely on Haaland’s goal-scoring. ‘Yeah, we have to score more. If we don’t create it’s fine but when we create we have to score.‘They know it. We talk about it for a long time. In the training sessions they are good at finishing so they have to do it. I don’t have doubts that when it is unlocked players will score.’
2025-10-25 08:57:49
Jamie Carragher insists Erling Haaland can stop Arsenal from winning the Premier League – and claims Man City would only have top-four chance without ‘greatest ever goal-scorer’
