Arsenal mistakes leave Premier League title race alive with gap still four points

Arsenal failed to open up clear daylight at the top of the Premier League, and the title race remains alive with the gap described in the report as four points.

The Guardian piece says Manchester City have won only one of their past five league games but Arsenal have twice failed to take advantage, drawing 0-0 with Liverpool and Nottingham Forest and leaving themselves vulnerable. The article adds that Arsenal have been the best team in the league and the Champions League and have lost only three times all season.

In the described match, Arsenal dominated for long spells before individual errors and improvised opposition finishing shifted the game: Martín Zubimendi misplayed a backpass that allowed Bryan Mbeumo to equalise, a half‑time smattering of boos followed, and later a sequence left Matheus Cunha space to score. Mikel Arteta made a quadruple substitution but, the article says, the control he seeks was gone.

The piece notes the bigger picture — Arsenal still have to visit the Etihad in April and face what it calls a key test of nerve — and stresses that while there is no reason to expect a City winning run, the evidence-based approach Arteta relies on will be tested as the run-in continues.

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