Everyone fears us after our Anfield supershow, taunts Gallas

The Gunners captain believes his team proved that they are genuine title challengers after coming from an early goal behind to draw 1-1 against Liverpool yesterday.

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Although the draw ends Arsenal's 12-match winning streak, it helped them regain their place at the summit of the Premier League ahead of Manchester United, who they face at Emirates Stadium on Saturday.

Gallas said: "I think we showed everybody we can fight for the title because a lot of people wanted to see how Arsenal would react against a big team like Liverpool and I think we reacted very well and maybe we can be disappointed because we didn't win.

"Everybody watched that game in front of their TV and a lot of teams will be afraid of Arsenal. Liverpool were maybe a little bit afraid of us and a lot of top teams will be afraid of us again.

"We play well, we can score at any time or we can play the physical game as well."

Liverpool took a seventh-minute lead through Steven Gerrard's rocket free-kick but Cesc Fabregas rounded off a scintillating 80th-minute counter-attack by deftly poking in the equaliser that Arsenal's display fully merited.

Gallas nominated Chelsea and Manchester United ahead of Liverpool as Arsenal's title rivals.

He added: "For me, it will be very difficult to win the title. There are three or four teams who can win the title. Man U will be one of them but you have another team in Chelsea. We have to think about Chelsea as well because they won 6-0 against Manchester City."

Gallas believes the remarkable Fabregas, who scored his 10th goal of the season yesterday, can mature into the Premier League's star performer if he makes a few minor adjustments to his game.

"He can be the best player in the league," observed the Frenchman.

"To be the best you have to be good during one season and the season is very long. He has to know sometimes when he is tired, to not play a physical game because sometimes when they are young, they like to touch the ball too many times. He has to save his energy but he can be the best player."

Manager Arsene Wenger was delighted with his emerging team.

He said: "We are disappointed not to have won. The players are frustrated, but you have to be realistic. We were 1-0 down after just a few minutes against a very committed team who are good at set-pieces and counter-attack well.

"They have such good support at Anfield that sometimes that wins it for them. Overall we handled the game very well. I cannot fault anyone, it was a fantastic game."