Perhaps Arsenal never actually did have a chance. Perhaps Erling Haaland hitting 50 goals by April and Manchester City bursting past the Gunners on the home straight was as inevitable as the sun rising in the morning.
It feels as though it would take a changing of the winds unexplainable by the laws of nature for the new Premier League leaders to stumble now, such has been Arsenal’s recent plight. Kevin De Bruyne was left out with a niggle, and his replacement Julian Alvarez scored a goal-of-the-month contender in his absence. Perhaps that says it all about Pep Guardiola’s unstoppable juggernaut of a team.
