William Saliba has admitted Arsenal don’t deserve to be top of the Premier League this season.
Arsenal are currently 15 points behind leaders Liverpool in the Premier League table, who they have a game in hand on, with 10 matches left to play.
The Gunners have been hit hard by injuries in attack and it has led to them losing three league games and drawing 10.
Saliba believes they have not performed well enough to be top of the table and Liverpool deserve to be leading the way.
“If they are first it’s because they did something we didn’t do,” he said. “Of course there’s a big gap but we have to keep going.
“They are so good as well. I think this season we don’t deserve to be at the top but we have to keep going and there’s Champions league as well, so we will push.”
The Champions League is now their most realistic chance to win a trophy this season and they are on the cusp of reaching the quarter-finals.
The Gunners are 7-1 up on aggregate going into the second leg of their last-16 tie with PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday.
Arsenal will face one of Atletico Madrid or Real Madrid in the next round, but Saliba thinks they can go all the way.
“If we don’t believe or if we don’t dream to win the Champions League there is no point to play,” he said.
“We are here, this season with the new format it was not easy to be qualified. Now we’ve won the first game [against PSV], tomorrow we’ve got a good chance to win a game and to be qualified.
“After, there is four games before the final. We can do it, we all believe that we can do it. We have to work and pray as well.
“We are sad when we don’t win a trophy but we have to keep believing because we are here. We won the first game last week and if we win or draw we are in the quarter-final then anything can happen. We have to believe in ourselves and everyone thinks we can do it.”
