Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard admits that his own achievements have fallen under the standards he expected, but says that he has the ability and talent to end the season well.
Odegaard scored 23 goals of the Premier League – the former a season during the 2022/23 and 2023/24 campaigns in which the Norwegian scored 15 times 15 times. Nevertheless, he only contributed two goals and three templates in an injury -related season from 2024/25, so Arsenal occasionally looks toothless in the absence of Bukayo Saka.
His sensational best was seen during the 7-1 middle of the week in the first leg of her champions League round of 16 ties, which show some of Odegaard’s critics exactly what he is capable of.
Before the trip on Sunday after Manchester United, the 26-year-old announced that he is used to the fact that his achievements were checked and talked about being in front of the goal, which is likely to be another almost miss to win a first Premier League title since 2004.
“To be honest, I am very used to people who talk about me and judge my achievements,” Odegaard told Arsenal Club channels.
“But I think I do that, I’m very hard with myself and I know that I was not good enough, especially before the goal. This is normal, I work hard every day to improve it, and I know that I have the ability and talent to do it, and this week I was good and hopefully I can end the season to end.
“It is always difficult to play at the end of the season, but yes, I think every game is so important from start to finish. But hopefully, like last year, we can reach the top forms towards the end and see where this leads us in the league and in the Champions League. “
Now that Liverpool had now solved 16 points in front of Arsenal last season, it would require an unprecedented breakdown from the side of Arne Slot so that the Gunners are back in the cover picture.
However, the deficit would reduce the victory for arsenal over united and in their other game to ten points – which means Odegaard that the fight is not over yet.
“We have to do our job, we can only hope and win our games, then we will see what happens,” he said. “Of course we have put ourselves in a difficult position at the moment, but we have to continue, we have to try to win every time we play and we will see what happens to Liverpool, but I think the main thing is to concentrate on us and we can win the games.
“We will fight to the end, I think that’s the attitude of everyone, we fought for three years in a row and a few years ago we led with many points and we ended second place. In football, everything is possible. The main thing is to go on and continue to work hard and get better every day and we will see the games and we will see.”