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One thing Arsenal need to happen to win the Premier League and it has nothing to do with Liverpool

Gabriel Jesus of Arsenal after scoring during the Premier League match against Crystal Palace
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Arsenal got themselves back on track in the Premier League title race on Saturday evening. The Gunners put on a five-star show at Selhurst Park to thrash Crystal Palace 5-1.

After back-to-back draws in the top flight - only matching Liverpool's two results at the same time - Arsenal got back to winning ways with an impressive away performance.

It hauled them back to within three points of Liverpool at the top of the table, albeit only for 24 hours or so, with the Reds beating Arsenal's fierce north London rivals Tottenham 6-3 in a crazy game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday.

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The gap is back to six points and the Reds have that game in hand still - away at Merseyside Derby rivals Everton after the original clash was postponed due to Storm Darragh.

But Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta knows the one thing he needs to happen if Arsenal are to have any chance of winning the Premier League. Winning all their games of course, that's a given, but there's something else in tune with that and it has to do with a player coming back into form.

Gabriel Jesus has scored five goals in his last two games - both against Crystal Palace - having only scored once all season prior to last Wednesday night. And if Arsenal are to win the Premier League title, they need the Brazilian to keep on scoring.

That is because Jesus is currently on an incredible streak of scoring and not losing in the Premier League. In fact the Arsenal striker has never lost a game in which he has scored, going back to his Manchester City days too.

Jesus has scored in 61 different Premier League games since arriving in England in 2017 and he has yet to taste defeat when he has scored. There have been 56 wins and five draws in those matches.

So if Arsenal are to go on and win every game between now and the end of the season, or at least not lose, they could do with making sure Jesus plays and scores in them, if you're superstitious about these things.