Premier League leaders Arsenal will be put to the test against Liverpool on Sunday, but manager Mikel Arteta claimed the team still has a lot of opportunity to grow.
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The Gunners, who have won seven of their first eight games, are a point ahead of Manchester City, who will play Southampton on Saturday.
Prior to the encounter at the Emirates Stadium, Liverpool the 2019–20 champions and runners-up from the previous season, are in ninth place with just two victories in seven games. When they went there in March, they won 2-0.
“It is a really exciting game to play against one of the top opponents in this league,” Arteta told reporters. “It’s going to be a really demanding match that’s going to require us to be at our best again.
“It’s a fixture that everybody is looking for against an opponent that has shown in the last five or six years the level they have and we have to show that we have raised the level and are ready to compete against them.”
Arsenal are unbeaten at home in the league, their sole defeat coming at Manchester United last month, and Arteta said he was proud of the change in atmosphere at the North London club.
“How you measure success is lifting trophies, but as well you have to understand where we were and how fractured the club and the environment looked,” he said.
“I am very conscious that we can get much better than what we are today… we have to do better to be the team that we want to be and the challenge now is to do it every three days.
“You always see the weaknesses that you want to improve.”
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