Arsenal have 'no hope' left in Premier League race - Odegaard - ESPN

Team captain Martin Odegaard admitted «there is no hope» for Arsenal in the Premier League title race after their challenge suffered a potentially fatal blow with a 3-0 defeat to Brighton on Sunday.

Second-half goals from Julio Enciso, Deniz Undav and Pervis Estupinan gave the visitors a deserved victory at Emirates Stadium as the Gunners struggled to respond to Manchester City's win at Everton earlier in the day.

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The result leaves them four points behind City having played a game more. Pep Guardiola's side will be crowned champions if Arsenal lose at Nottingham Forest on Saturday evening, and Odegaard told Sky Sports: «I think it is going to be very difficult now, to be honest. It is a tough one to take.

»It is not a good feeling at the moment. The way we played especially in the second half, I don't know what happened, to be honest. A big, big disappointment, and it feels like there is no hope [in the title race] now."

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta believes his team capitulated after going in 0-0 at the break and apologized to supporters, thousands of whom left the ground long before the final whistle.

«A week [ago], I was feeling proud [after beating Newcastle United] and today we have to apologise because the performance we had in the second half was not acceptable,» Arteta said. «We knew the way they play, they made the game really competitive. I think there were 30 fouls in the game.

»Very difficult to get any long sequences of play, to get set in the final third. They had a lot of issues as well; they gave the ball away a lot in their own half, and we could have really capitalised in the first half on six occasions and we didn't.

«Then we concede a goal when they