Arsenal is not a team to rely on to such extent, we've seen it lots of times when they blow up their chances of being in top four, when you least expect them to deliver they tend to fail then, but when you are not expecting much from them they will deliver, no one expected them to have a fine run both home and away before they met Man city recently, the top 4 is still wide open in my opinion
I don't completely agree with you, this season Arsenal have shown quite an impressive game and Arteta has really succeeded in making Arsenal a candidate to fill the champions league slot next season, slowly Arsenal, which at the beginning of the season was even below the top 10, were able to show their capacity as one of the a big team, during the training of wenger, arsenal they were indeed a big 4 specialist team, but they always fell when the champions league or european league started, so i want to see what arteta will do next season if they make it through to the champions league, will their fate be like the Wenger period or can arsenal really be a contender for the champions league title next season?