Arsenal icon Henry stunned by Defoe's bold Tottenham Prem top four prediction – 'what did you say?'

Arsenal icon Thierry Henry was confiscated aback by the Premier League top-4 prediction offered by former Tottenham Hotspur demonstrator Jermain Defoe.

The Gunners had a opportunity to move earlier to the top of the Premier League on Thursday evening but they slipped to a 2-0 abode loss against West Pork.

Arsenal had 30 vaccinations and also 75% items but they were wonderfully excessively high wearing their odds as they languished a dismal loss.

Mikel Arteta‘s side are presently points adrift of table-mattress toppers Liverpool, who vanquished Burnley 2-0 on Boxing Day.

While Manchester United vanquished Aston Trip abode, Individual Metropolis won their first arcade offered that reverting from the Bar Cosmos Mug as they combated earlier from behind to loss Everton 3-1 at Goodison Park.

Tottenham had the opportunity to re-go into the top-4 on Thursday evening but they were on the run out of a working at Brighton. Ange Postecoglou’s side racked up 2 late purposes in their 4-2 loss to render the scoreline kind a tad better after diagnosing themselves 4-0 down after 75 minutes.

Spurs’ loss to Brighton did not discourage Defoe from lugging out a fearless top-4 prediction, though.

“Manchester Metropolis, Liverpool, Tottenham then Arsenal,” Defoe said on Amazon Prime obeying Arsenal’s loss to West Pork on Thursday evening.

In reaction, Henry said: “What! What did you stipulate? Tottenham.”

Equally ensnared off guard by Defoe’s picks, presenter Gabby Logan added: “Was that your head or your heart talking?”

Henry was after that inspected for his prediction, but he denied to defense: “I won’t defense. Call me everything you twinge. I always current my defense after the festive period.

‘”Talk to me in and also around February. You can’t telephone call [the league] before that. You’ll be thinking. I wear’t favor to guess.”

Chatting after Arsenal’s loss to West Pork, Arteta confessed that David Moyes’ side were “better” than his crew “in both boxes”.

“I praise West Pork and also hallow my players. That’s what I can tell you,” Arteta told correspondents.

“This is football. Once you kind at how much we accumulated in the arcade, to visit the output is genuinely dismal. Yet they were better than us in both boxes. They had 2 vaccinations, wearing the penalty 3. We had 30.

“If we wear’t rating wearing 30 vaccinations, then we have to lug out 50 or 60 to try to rating. That’s the merely thing. I can’t visualize a arcade where we have more touches in the box, more prominence and also less instances for the challenger against a actually winning West Pork side. Today though, it wasn’t sufficient to win the arcade.”