{"id":42677,"date":"2024-01-01T21:46:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T21:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/rice-calls-for-more-grit-as-arsenals-title-hopes-dwindle\/"},"modified":"2024-01-01T21:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T21:46:50","slug":"rice-calls-for-more-grit-as-arsenals-title-hopes-dwindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/rice-calls-for-more-grit-as-arsenals-title-hopes-dwindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice calls for more grit as Arsenal&#8217;s title hopes dwindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul data-sourcepos=\"3:1-7:45\">\n<li data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:81\">Arsenal lost back-to-back games.<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"4:1-4:71\">Declan Rice calls for a\u00a0more focused mindset.<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"4:1-4:71\">Arsenal dropped to\u00a0fourth place with 40 points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Declan Rice, a midfielder for Arsenal, thinks the team has to have a more focused mindset during games after dropping points in back-to-back games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/12\/odegaard-blames-little-details-as-arsenal-stumble-at-home\/\">Arsenal\u2019s<\/a> prospects of winning the Premier League title were damaged on Sunday when they lost 2-1 to Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal dropped to fourth place with 40 points halfway through the season after failing to capitalize on an early lead provided by Bukayo Saka at Craven Cottage.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Gunners also suffered a 2-0 home defeat to West Ham United.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go 1-0 up, you need to take more control and have more self-belief,\u201d Rice told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to have more desire, the mentality needs to be better. We need to demand more for each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this league, there\u2019s no room to mess up. There\u2019s so many good teams around you and we want to be pushing up the top end of the table. It\u2019s a tough one to take today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Manchester City are third with a game remaining, while Aston Villa and Liverpool, who lead on goal differential and play Newcastle United later on Monday, all have 42 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of media who talk and say \u2018Arsenal will win the league this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/12\/ex-arsenal-stars-company-soars-now-40-times-more-valuable-than-ronaldo\/\">Arsenal<\/a> are better this year\u2019, and whatnot. But we don\u2019t get involved in that, we just try to take every game as we can, one by one,\u201d Rice said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing really well. There\u2019s been a blip in the road, but there\u2019s no room to panic. There\u2019s still so many games to go, we need to stay positive. It\u2019s not the time to be negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"alsoread\">\n<h4 class=\"text-uppercase mb-10 mt-20 fs-18\">Also Read<\/h4>\n<div class=\"post-box sty22\">\n<div class=\"post-frame js-ratioHtP\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<h5 class=\"title\">Fulham Shocks Arsenal: Premier League Standings Reshuffled<\/h5>\n<p>Fulham stuns, puts Arsenal in fourth. Arsenal&#8217;s early lead falters, settling in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/12\/fulham-shocks-arsenal-premier-league-standings-reshuffled\/\" class=\"post-link\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal lost back-to-back games. Declan Rice calls for a\u00a0more focused mindset. Arsenal dropped to\u00a0fourth place with 40 points. Declan Rice, a midfielder for Arsenal, thinks the team has to have a more focused mindset during games after dropping points in back-to-back games. Arsenal\u2019s prospects of winning the Premier League title were damaged on Sunday when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FotoJet-2024-01-01T125234.281.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}