Arsenal are still in this race, but they will do really well to finish in the top four now.
If they'd lost to Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City in the last few weeks you hold your hands up and you accept that they are just better teams at this time. That is a fact at the moment, and you just have to make sure you win games against the other teams.
They've lost to teams they should be beating. Fourth should be done now.
That will be their biggest disappointment.
From day one, I said Arsenal and Tottenham were not winning all their remaining games. When you watched Man City vs Liverpool the other week, it's different. With their quality, you know they could reel off seven or eight wins. That is not a problem for them at all. However, Arsenal and Spurs were never ever going to do that.
If you go back on Soccer Saturday, a long, long time ago towards the start of the season, I said Arsenal would finish in the top four.
The reasoning was that they were playing just one game a week for the majority of the season, and that is a massive advantage.
Everyone was also saying about Harry Kane, that it was a joke for him to be going to America to watch the golf. Spurs wouldn't have lost to Brighton if he'd stayed. That's just not true.
Other teams are going into Europe most weeks throughout the season. They are taking four- or five-hour journeys regularly for some of these European games.
So, playing once a week, I thought Arsenal had a chance. It's got to a stage now where really, from the position they were in, it'd be a disappointment if they don't get in.
Tottenham then getting in instead would make it even worse. That's the problem.
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