Laurent Koscielny believes Arsenal’s home games will be crucial to their title chances, ahead of this weekend’s game against Chelsea.
The Gunners have nine teams left to visit north London and seven fixtures on the road remaining before the end of the season.
The away games look marginally tougher on paper, which is why the France defender admitted to Arsenal Player that he is looking to take maximum points from the home games to give themselves the best chance of keeping top spot.
If you want to win the Premier League, you need to win all your home games.
Our seven away games will be very difficult because we play against Man City, Man United, Tottenham, West Ham, Everton, so we need to do the job well at home so we have the points.
West Ham are the only team to win at the Emirates this season, Liverpool picked up a point and the other seven games ended in home wins.
Chelsea will provide a stern test of that good home record this weekend and Koscielny isn’t only focusing on the Premier League, with games coming thick and fast in other competitions.
We take each game and we will see. We want to play and win all games. We are in a period where we play many different competitions, we play the Champions League, the FA Cup, Premier League.
This weekend is an important game and next weekend too, because it is the FA Cup and we won it twice and we want to continue like this.
In February, March, we will have Champions League so we need to take it game by game and that’s it.
Alexis Sanchez, Tomas Rosicky, Danny Welbeck, Francis Coquelin, Jack Wilshere and Santi Cazorla’s return from injury should give Arsene Wenger’s side belief to pursue three competitions.
