"Game-changer": Pundit identifies "eerie" shift in Arsenal's play that could shake up the title race

During the BT Sport broadcast, ex-Fulham, Chelsea, and Brighton midfielder Steve Sidwell observed the lack of enthusiasm at the Emirates Stadium at the end of the Arsenal vs Southampton game.

Sidwell even suggested that a lack of faith or nervousness among Arsenal supporters could significantly impact the title race as a "game-changer."

Sidwell explained: "The biggest thing was the reaction when the final whistle went. I know it was emotional and tension was high because a goal was going to come if a few more minutes had been played."

"But [at full-time] it was as if the whistle hadn’t been blown. It was really eerie for the first time. The Arsenal fans didn’t know how to react. Normally when that happens there is a little bit of chanting, there is a little bit of applause, and they get behind the team, but it was dead calm, dead silent."

"I thought “Oh, that [tension] is now going into the fans and seeping now’. Whereas before - the Emirates this season has been electric."

"The atmosphere there has been poison in previous seasons whereas [this term] it’s been their mainstay. But that reaction after, that was the first time I went, ‘Oh, that could be a game-changer"