{"id":202,"date":"2026-03-26T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=202"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:44:56","slug":"paul-merson-makes-bold-premier-league-or-bust-arsenal-prediction-after-carabao-cup-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Paul Merson Makes Bold &#8216;Premier League or Bust&#8217; Arsenal Prediction After Carabao Cup Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ui-advert site-component-vertical-margin\" data-role=\"advert-unit\" data-testid=\"advert-unit\" data-ad-format=\"mpu\" data-type=\"\" data-label=\"\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a sore one for Arsenal. It\u2019s a confidence-sapping defeat because you come in the dressing room after that and think: oh my God, we just got destroyed in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill it impact the Premier League? Arsenal are too good for the other teams they have to play against in the run-in, so they will beat those teams. But watching that game and that second half, I don\u2019t see Arsenal winning anything else but the Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta will hope that Merson is wrong, and that his Arsenal side can come back from the international break and get themselves into the semi-finals of both the FA Cup and Champions League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to see Arsenal\u2019s latest transfer news. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a sore one for Arsenal. It\u2019s a confidence-sapping defeat because you come in the dressing room after that and think: oh my God, we just got destroyed in the second half. \u201cWill it impact the Premier League? Arsenal are too good for the other teams they have to play against in the run-in, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}