Mikel Arteta insisted that Arsenal will not stop fighting for the Premier League title, despite the fact that 11 points behind leaders Liverpool were slip.
Arteta looked up while the Gunners were beaten 1-0 on Saturday by West Ham in the Emirates Stadium, which ended their unbeaten run of 15 games at the top of the top.
And that defeat turned out to be precious, with the side of Arne Slot appearing 2-0 to Manchester City 24 hours later to get further clearly during the top of the rankings.
OPTA's supercomputer now hands Liverpool a chance of 96.6% to lift the title, while the Gunners have only had a 3.4% chance of the table at the top in May.
The chances of Arsenal were not helped by the seasonal injuries to Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus, while Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka also remain offside.
And the side of Arteta is a tough test on Wednesday to the third placed Nottingham-Bos.
Although they won this exact match 2-1 last season, Arsenal has not won a consecutive road races at the city grounds since a series of four between 1987 and 1990.
Although the chances are apparently stacked against his team, Arteta repeated Arsenal's wish to fight until it was mathematically impossible to lift the title.
“We are not going to stop. About my dead body,” Arteta told reporters. “If not, I will go home. Mathematically it is possible.
“You are there, you have to play every game. Suddenly, three days ago, we can close an opening, and you are like 'you're gone one and a half games.”
“It doesn't matter, we have to keep going. The difficulty is greater than three days, but if you are going to win the Premier League, you have to do something special.
“If you are going to win the title in the circumstances we have, you will probably have to do something that no one else has done in the history of the Premier League.”
After their collision with forest, Arsenal continues their campaign in the Champions League with their two -legged round of 16 collision against PSV Eindhoven.
They are also confronted with huge tests in the Premier League, with an away game to Manchester United before they welcomed Chelsea for the Emirates before the international break next month.
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