GABI SEES PATH TO TITLE

Building from the back to knock City off perch

- KEITH WEBSTER

GABRIEL believes the togetherness at Arsenal will see them achieve their goal of becoming Premier League champions.

Mikel Arteta's squad did something even the Invincibles couldn't manage 20 years ago by winning 28 league games this season.

And they pushed the best team on the planet to the final few minutes of an enthralling season before yielding in the title battle to Manchester City.

Arsenal's attacking flair under Arteta in 2023-24 was evident in the likes of Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Kai Havertz and Leandro Trossard, even if their 91 goals could not quite match City's 96.

But where they led all others in the season just ended was at the back.

The Gunners conceded a miserly 29 goals - how Adams, Keown, Bould, Dixon and Winterburn would have approved.