What comes up must come down, I guess

3 reasons:

1. Strategy: Arsenal play the highest line and has the best defensive trio in the league (Saliba, Gabriel, Rice). That makes them the hardest team to counter.

2. Tactics: Arteta has many bench options to change the tactics of the game. Very low block? Throw in Havertz and Tomiyasu, and bomb them aerially. Need players to make runs? Throw in ESR, Trossard or Vieira, and let them open up the defense.

3. Confidence/concentration: The team knows they can score late, and also helps that added time tend to help Arsenal because opposition must maintain concentration over 100-110 min of game time rather than over 95 min. Harder to do that when you’re always defending than in attack.

Arsenal also have decent options on the bench to change the game tactically in their favor, with the multiple aerial threats to take advantage of their numerous set pieces that they will win due to how deep their opposition sits back.

Arsenal have pretty tough fixtures around April and fairly favorable set of fixtures until around mid March. This also means that they have to pull ahead of City by 5 pts or they don’t stand a chance.

Will be tight until the very end between the three I think.

There’s truth in what ShadowXYZ04 is saying: your squad has talent but they are not yet at the quality or have the requisite mentality to control games for 90 min. In the short term, you will continue to drop points but I wouldn’t be too worried if you are willing to write off this season.

This is absurd. By this logic, if Man City were to get point deducted or relegated this season, should Arsenal (or Liverpool) sue because the points deduction didn’t occur in previous seasons and cost them the title?