Football pundit Paul Merson believes the losing side of weekend’s PL clash will have to forget about top-4 hopes
”I think a lot of the top-four race goes down to this game on Sunday,” Merse told Sky Sports. ”That’s why it’s a massive football match, whoever loses won’t be in the top four. But if Arsenal lose they’ve still got a chance in the Europa League. People are telling me Manchester United could go on and win the Champions League, I’m not sure about that.”
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Yet, beating Rennes might prove to be tricky, given that they have a two-goal advantage on us.
Anyway, he continued: ”I think it’s the same for Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, the longer you stay in these tournaments you can get into the scenario of what Manchester United did the other year – they stayed in the Europa League and put all their eggs in that basket and couldn’t get in the top four.
”I think it’s important for Arsenal and Chelsea to do that at the moment. I think Arsenal will go through, I think they’ll have far too much for them in the second leg but there’s some very good teams still left in it.”