‘EPL is Chelsea’s to lose’: It’s only November, but Arsene Wenger has already given up on Arsenal

Arsene Wenger threw in the towel on the title race on Sunday evening after watching Arsenal blow another winning position at Swansea.

The Gunners surrendered a lead at the Liberty Stadium, with Garry Monk’s side scoring twice in three minutes through Gylfi Sigurdsson and Bafetimbi Gomis to turn the game on its head.

Alexis Sanchez had put the visitors in front, but they weren’t able to hold on for the second time in a week.

Chelsea are on an average of 100 points this season,’ the Arsenal boss explained. ‘If you look at the number of points they have, if they keep that up nobody will catch them.

‘There doesn’t look to be anybody capable of challenging them at the moment.’

Wenger was far less impressed with his own side, who led through Sanchez before a wonderful Sigurdsson free-kick and Gomis’s header left the Gunners 12 points off the pace.

The turnaround followed their stunning Champions League capitulation from 3-0 up against Anderlecht in midweek, in which they stuttered to a 3-3 draw.

He added: ‘We had a very disappointing week, considering the performances we produced and the end results we got are very disappointing.

‘We were 3-0 up against Anderlecht and 1-0 up here and in the end we lose two points against Anderlecht and three points against Swansea. I think it’s very, very disappointing because you have to be capable, once you are 1-0 up and a big team, to win the game.’