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LONDON - CESC Fabregas has warned that Arsenal are out to prove their doubters wrong by winning the Premier League title as they embark on an ambitious year.
Arsenal will begin their bid to stretch their one-point league lead over Manchester United with a trip to Portsmouth on Wednesday, before travelling to Merseyside to face Everton on Saturday.
And Fabregas, 20, believes the team, in spite of Thierry Henry's departure to Barcelona, have the strength in depth to succeed both in England and in Europe.
The Spanish midfielder told Sky Sports: 'The team is hungry and wants to achieve something to prove people wrong.'
'We want to achieve a lot of things over the next 12 months. If we could win everything that would be perfect - but the Premier League is the competition it would be amazing to win.'
Fabregas believes the departure of Henry has brought an era of opportunity for a group of players who had been playing in the shadow of the great French forward.
'I have more responsibility than before,' he said.
'When you looked at Arsenal a year or two years ago you just saw Thierry Henry. It was a little bit like the other players did not exist.'
'But when he left it was an opportunity for everybody to show we are a team and a good club. Even if the best player in the world is leaving us we can still achieve something.' -- AFP
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