Pain in the Arsenal
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4 targets for Arsenal during the second half of the 2022/23 season

By James Cormack

Arsenal's Brazilian midfielder Gabriel Martinelli holds up the shirt of Arsenal's Spanish defender Pablo Mari (recently injured in a stabbing incident in Italy) as he celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal of the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Nottingham Forest at the Emirates Stadium in London on October 30, 2022. - - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by Ian Kington / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by IAN KINGTON/AFP via Getty Images)
Arsenal's Brazilian midfielder Gabriel Martinelli holds up the shirt of Arsenal's Spanish defender Pablo Mari (recently injured in a stabbing incident in Italy) as he celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal of the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Nottingham Forest at the Emirates Stadium in London on October 30, 2022. - - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by Ian Kington / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by IAN KINGTON/AFP via Getty Images) /
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4. Finish in the top four

Arsenal’s goal before the season was to finish in the top four. (Photo by Harriet Lander/Getty Images)
Arsenal’s goal before the season was to finish in the top four. (Photo by Harriet Lander/Getty Images) /

Remember the primary goal.

Arsenal didn’t enter the 2022/23 season expecting to dominate. Sure, their pre-season was promising but the Gunners were light years off the top two last term. They were fighting for a top-four finish, but Antonio Conte’s Spurs pipped them to the post.

However, the Gunners have come on leaps and bounds since then while those folk down the road have stagnated. Our excellent start to the season not only means we’re five points clear at the top, but we’ve also created a major buffer with our top-four rivals. Fourth-placed Spurs are eight points adrift having played a game more, Manchester United are 11 points off, Liverpool 15, and Chelsea 16.

It’d take a monumental collapse in 2023 for Arteta’s men not to make the top four and return to the Champions League for the first time since 2017. Still, the Gunners cannot lose sight of this goal.

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