{"id":3393,"date":"2018-02-24T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T22:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2018-02-28T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:14:10","slug":"wenger-need-europa-league-title-save-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/wenger-need-europa-league-title-save-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Wenger need Europa League title to save his job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many believe that Arsene Wenger saved his job last year by winning the FA Cup final, and could history repeat itself? Could a cup final save him again?<\/p>\n<p>After being convincingly pushed aside by Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final &#8211; Arsenal&#8217;s only chance of silverware this season is also their only route back to the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal missed out on the top-four for the first time under his tenure last season and as it stands they are already 10 points adrift of the top-four.<\/p>\n<p>However, all is not lost for Wenger and Arsenal in terms of the Champions League &#8211; as Manchester United proved last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like being all or nothing for Arsenal and Wenger now, if he doesn&#8217;t win the Europa League &#8211; surely it will be hard for him to continue,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As it stands he is 5\/4 to leave before the start of next season, he is contracted to 2019 and he does always insist that he honour&#8217;s his contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That saving grace could be the Europa League &#8211; they are second favourites behind Atletico Madrid at 3\/1, but with some big names left in, it remains a big ask for Arsenal and Wenger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Arsenal odds:<\/strong><br \/>\nTo leave before start of next season 5\/4<br \/>\nTo win Europa League 3\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many believe that Arsene Wenger saved his job last year by winning the FA Cup final, and could history repeat itself? Could a cup final save him again? After being convincingly pushed aside by Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final &#8211; Arsenal&#8217;s only chance of silverware this season is also their only route back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[841,74,1640,93],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3170,4268,1336,4489,1476,1463,2733,4487,4388,824,2283,321,4322,762,4488,4491,4490,2816,1800,2685],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}