I just see Arsenal repeating same thing they did in the premier league last season, just take a look at how Arsenal started very well this season just to reach this stage and starts losing points. Well, it's obvious that Arsenal may not really be strong enough to stand as title contenders this season so their match against Crystal palace may not be certain to whether they can defeat them regardless of the fact that they are playing in their home ground after all, they lost against Westham in Emirate stadium so it wouldn't be a surprise if Crystal palace also do the same.
Arsenal started this season in excellent form, but now we can say that Arteta is again facing a decline in results. Perhaps Arteta adheres to some kind of training strategy that he considers optimal, and considers these seasonal declines to be some kind of coincidence of unsuccessful games. There is still a difference with last season, since last time the decline was at the end of the season, and this time it happened in the middle. So far they are 5 points behind Liverpool, this is not critical, but winning back this difference will not be easy.
The same pattern is always repeating again and again. No doubt people named this club as a clown club. It was always running out of its fuel at the end of season. People are also feeling so tired of watching this club caused by they never meet what they have expected.
Im concerning about how arteta was not even building the mentality from the players. It seems he was not even caring about that. Arsenal was always performing very well at the early of season but it's always bottling its performance at the end of season.
Even thought the gap was not so big but it is quite difficult to surpass the club that was always performing very consistently. This must be noted that if arsenal was losing against manchester city small gap last season.
The same thing is going to repeat soon. Im not even doubting it to happen caused by i do believe arsenal will be performing so badly till the end of season.