Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka has rejected they're bottling the title after dropping four points from the past two games.

The Prem leaders have twice let slip 2-0 leads to draw 2-2 in the past week.

But Xhaka said: “This is not about our mentality and I am certain everyone will see a reaction against Southampton on Friday.

“Everything is still in our own hands if we win our remaining games, so nothing has changed on that front.

"We go into our next matches with the same objective, we're not looking at what Manchester City are doing.

“Sunday's game was similar to the match at Liverpool last week where we started very well, scored two goals but couldn't get the win. We need to analyse why this happened twice in a row.

“But if anyone thinks that we'd get to this point of this season by smashing all our opponents without dropping points, I think they're not in the right position.

“We are disappointed and when things are not going well it's easy to show the finger to someone else.

“But now is the time for everyone to be together.

“We have taken on a challenge which no one was thinking about before this season started and now we have seven games to go, so let's carry on."