Last night’s 0-0 draw with Southampton shows how Arsenal’s poor finishing will once again cost them the title. With 68% possession and 21 shots, 11 on target, the Gunners could not score a vital goal. The last time Arsenal won the league was in the 2003-4 ‘invincibles’ season. Arsenal have dropped 9 points in the last four matches after being top of the table on New Year’s day. Now sitting in fourth place, five points from Leicester who are top, Arsenal fans fear they are once again allowing the season slip away. The North London side have a jam-packed schedule in the coming month playing 5 games this month, one against Manchester United, one against league leaders Leicester City and a Champions League game against Barcelona, Wenger’s men will be hard pressed and exhausted to gun for the title. After yesterday’s match Wenger admitted:
"We cannot fault our focus, desire and energy levels, but when you create the quality of chances we did tonight you have to win the game and that's what we didn't do.
"The only thing you could say was their goalkeeper had a great performance.
"It was just bad finishing, we had the chances and at the moment we have played three games without scoring, but not without creating chances, and you go through patches like that."
With 14 games left of the Premier League season Arsenal need to start scoring goals if they are serious about winning the League.
Source: transfermarketweb.com