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Arsenal and Manchester City can still win the Quadruple this season.
Going into this weekend’s Premier League fixtures, the Gunners sit top of the table, seven points clear of Manchester City.
Mikel Arteta’s men host Everton hours before City travel to West Ham.
If both teams manage to get three points, it keeps them in the hunt for the title.
However, only one of them can realistically win the Quadruple.
“With all due respect to both teams, I don’t think they are equipped enough to win a quadruple,” Adava OluwaGbenga Festus, OAP at Midas Radio and Football Analyst, tells DAILY POST.
“City are more or less out of the Champions League, except they somehow pull a miracle. Remember Madrid will likely have Mbappe back for that game.
“Arsenal have been solid at the Emirates, but they need to see off a Bayer Leverkusen side who have absolutely nothing to lose in the return leg.
“But all in all, they have competed well to get to this stage.”
City was hammered 3-0 by Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash.
Pep Guardiola’s team selection against the Hammers will be interesting, because he not only wants to keep pace with Arsenal, he would be desperate to overturn the deficit against Madrid at the Etihad.
The Gunners play both Everton and Leverkusen at the Emirates.
“Arsenal winning last week and City dropping points to Nottingham Forest has provided Arsenal a sort of respite,” Adava said.
“But they have to absolutely make it count by beating Everton. Both teams have won their last two matches, but Arsenal with definitely more to play for will most likely get the 3 points.
“City who were atrocious in midweek will be quickly hoping to banish the ghost of their Champions League horror in Spain, by getting back on track and in doing so putting West Ham to the sword.
“Mentally, I think they are still a bit short with most of their big performers like Haaland and Dias painfully average in recent weeks.
“West Ham is 18th and in the relegation zone, and if there’s a good time to face City, it’s now while they are reeling off a bad loss.”
Arsenal and City might yet qualify for the Champions League quarter-finals. But next Sunday, we will know for sure which team won’t win the Quadruple, as they face each other in the Carabao Cup final.
“As for how those games set up for a Carabao Cup final, I think none of these will apply,” Adava argued.
“Arsenal in the first leg against City at Emirates dominated play by a lot of margins, but the times are different for both teams.
“A combination of injuries and loss of form has culminated in a topsy turvy past few weeks. But they are both still in relatively good form – even though the performances are another thing entirely.
“As for the cup final, it’s a one-off. Form is thrown out of the window for those ones and most times little margins determine those type of matches and I reckon Arsenal and Arteta will be under much more pressure to win and this could alter the eventual outcome,” he stated.
