{"id":464012,"date":"2011-07-19T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/19\/premier-league-title-race-will-be-tighter-than-ever-arsenal%e2%80%99s-johan-djourou\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:42:00","slug":"premier-league-title-race-will-be-tighter-than-ever-arsenals-johan-djourou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/premier-league-title-race-will-be-tighter-than-ever-arsenals-johan-djourou\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League title race will be tighter than ever &#8211; Arsenal\u2019s Johan Djourou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Miles Chambers<\/h3>\n<h4>19 Jul 2011 12:42:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"86.0828125\">\n<div readability=\"15.3352941176\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johan Djourou - Arsenal, (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/112900\/112978_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Johan Djourou &#8211; Arsenal, (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/94\/arsenal\">Arsenal<\/a> defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/switzerland\/9719\/johan-djourou\">Johan Djourou<\/a> believes the title race will be tighter than ever this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Gunners finished a disappointing fourth in the Premier League last season and will have to qualify for the Champions League group stages as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said recently that any of the \u2018big six\u2019 &#8211; the Red Devils, Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool &#8211; could win the title, and the 24-year-old centre-back can understand why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He told Arsenal\u2019s official website: \u201cI agree, it was always going to be the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past decade it has been the same teams but now the money comes in at a team like Man City and they spend a lot to deliver.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTottenham as well are making ground, they have got some great players too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to fight and that&#8217;s what makes the English league so good to watch because there is competition. We know there are favourites but there are outside teams who can make trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs players we have to be on our toes but I think Arsenal is still on top because even if I look at last season, the problem before was that we couldn&#8217;t beat the biggest teams but last season we didn&#8217;t have any problem with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think we just need to get those little things right and it will be great for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/19\/2581492\/premier-league-title-race-will-be-tighter-than-ever-arsenals\" title=\"Premier League title race will be tighter than ever - Arsenal\u2019s Johan Djourou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier League title race will be tighter than ever &#8211; Arsenal\u2019s Johan Djourou<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Miles Chambers 19 Jul 2011 12:42:00 Johan Djourou &#8211; Arsenal, (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Arsenal defender Johan Djourou believes the title race will be tighter than ever this season. The Gunners finished a disappointing fourth in the Premier League last season and will have to qualify for the Champions League group stages as a result. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said recently that any of the \u2018big six\u2019 &#8211; the Red Devils, Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool &#8211; could win the title, and the 24-year-old centre-back can understand why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Premier League title race will be tighter than ever - Arsenal\u2019s Johan Djourou - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/premier-league-title-race-will-be-tighter-than-ever-arsenals-johan-djourou\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Premier League title race will be tighter than ever - Arsenal\u2019s Johan Djourou - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Miles Chambers 19 Jul 2011 12:42:00 Johan Djourou - Arsenal, (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Arsenal defender Johan Djourou believes the title race will be tighter than ever this season. 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