Arsenal just missed a good opportunity to get close to Liverpool, even though they were playing at home, but they were really bad today. It looks like this season will be Liverpool's because I doubted that Arsenal would be able to give Liverpool a fight as they haven't won a trophy for a long time, so maybe they don't have the champion mentality anymore. Besides that, I think Arsenal must have realized that they don't have a reliable striker, but strangely they haven't tried to make changes.
I wouldn’t look up to Arsenal to be title contenders, no. They’ve still got what they’ve got which hits them once the league is about coming to an end, you find an Arsenal team that was doing great starts to fumble. Even if they managed to have come closer to Liverpool, they still wouldn’t be able to capitalize on those little moments that matters to secure the trophy. See them loosing today in a home game that you would expect them to win or at most, share points.
Arsenal defeat is an important point in the Premier League trophy race this week, that Arteta squad has not changed, I mean they still often lose points at important moments and especially towards the end of the season. This is clearly a big advantage for Liverpool in leading the standings, Arsenal is slowly being eliminated from the trophy hunt.
At almost the same time, several other matches also ended surprisingly, such as Chelsea defeat to Aston Villa. In my opinion, Enzo Maresca chances of leading his team to finish in the top four are now getting thinner. Meanwhile, Manchester United were lucky to survive a defeat when they visited Everton headquarters, but an additional 1 point was not enough to improve their position in the standings. If you look further, Tottenham are now on their way to turning things around, they are now consistently winning their last three matches.