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Arsenal's Petr Cech eyeing Premier League title after clean sheet record

Arsenal's record-breaking goalkeeper Petr Cech believes the club are capable of winning the Premier League title this season.

Cech, 33, secured his 170th Premier League shut-out in Monday's 2-0 win over Bournemouth -- a result which also saw the Gunners move to the top of the table and Cech enter the history books.

A first goal for the club for Gabriel and a strike from in-form Mesut Ozil wrapped up the points against the Cherries, as Cech picked up his eighth league clean sheet for his new side and surpassed David James' old record in the process.

"I feel really proud," he said after the game. "I believe that this is the best league in the world and one of the most difficult leagues to play for a goalkeeper so to have achieved such a record, obviously, it's a great personal achievement so I'm really proud of that.

"What makes me happy the most, probably, is that these clean sheets so far brought four Premier League trophies, so hopefully we will add clean sheets this season and we will celebrate at the end of the season, because this is far more important.

"I think the most important [thing] was to win the game and obviously once we got the 2-0 lead and it was going towards the end of the game, then, I have to confess that I started thinking about the record and in the last 10 minutes, I was checking the clock."

Having lifted the Premier League trophy four times across London at Chelsea, the former Rennes man has glory in his sights with his new team.

"I think that the great thing is that we go game by game," he added. "We don't feel overwhelmed when we win. Obviously, you are disappointed when you lose a game like we did two days ago [after the 4-0 loss to Southampton] but the reaction and consistency of the work is very important and so far we've been doing that, preparing every game as well as we could.

"Now, we are in a really good position so hopefully we can carry on that. Now going into the New Year, we are in a position where we can actually aim for our targets."