Arsenal has lost its past two league games, including a 2-1 defeat to City last weekend. Since then, Pep Guardiola's side beat Burnley to leapfrog the Gunners to the summit on goals scored.

Arsenal can move back to the top of the table if it avoids defeat to Newcastle, but it realistically needs a win to pile the pressure back on City, which will boast two games in hand by the time it next plays a Premier League match.

Given the tight nature of the table, the finest margins could decide where the title lands this season, and Arteta is determined to see Arsenal at its best level.

"We don't know. We are just talking about a lot of possibilities," he said. "Then, depending on how the situation is, then you can start to think about something else.

"You have to put everything into it. Everything you have, you have to put it on the table, and you have to make it happen.

"The clarity in what we have to do it cannot be better. Win tomorrow, and then we'll be much closer.

"I have belief in our players and our people and the willingness in what we want to achieve."

Newcastle, meanwhile, has lost eight of its past 11 Premier League matches, with no side losing more than the Magpies since the start of that run on 26 January (AEST).

This run has seen Newcastle, which will be without Anthony Gordon for the trip to Emirates Stadium, drop down to 14th in the table, but it is still in with an outside chance of booking a place in Europe, with only seven points separating it from seventh-place Bournemouth, which has played a game more.

The pressure is on Eddie Howe to get a win, though, after three straight league losses, and he acknowledged there could be a lot of change this summer.

"It's about attitude, commitment to the team," he said. "I think the players would expect that; I think they understand the demands and the role they're in.

"There's a responsibility in every moment to try to be at your best. That responsibility falls on me as well to make sure I'm delivering the best I can for the players and staff to create an environment we can win in."