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Montemurro - We stepped up to the expectation

Joe Montemurro believes we’ve handled the pressure of expectation admirably following our title-winning 2018/19 season.

Manchester City may have finished 2019/20 at the top of the table, but with a game in hand and seven still to play, we had every chance of defending our crown.

“I think we were leading into a really important part of the season and when you look at the games that we had remaining, it was set to be a really exciting end to the title race,” Montemurro told Arsenal.com.

“We still had a really good chance of achieving something and we placed ourselves in a really good position.