An Opportunity Missed or Some Breathing Space?

This weekend provided the gunners with a golden opportunity to lessen their points difference from the top four. We saw Chelsea going down against United losing all 3 points. Man city lost 2 vital points against Fulham drawing 2-2 and finally Liverpool getting bashed at White Heart Lane. All the three top teams lost vital points while only the champions were able to secure all 3 points. Did we fail to close the gap or are we lucky to have the same difference as of last week when it comes to those teams?

Last year, we had a similar opportunity when United lost to Wolves and our match was against New Castle. A dark memory indeed when our defense shattered in second half conceding four goals in a row. A similar scenario happened this weekend as again we lost our lead quiet badly conceding three goals in the second half.
This clearly showed that we are not learning from our past mistakes. After every match I listen to our manager saying that we know our flaws but the problem is knowing is not the solution to whole this scenario, acting within time is the solution. We take the minor teams way to easily or should I say we take every other team way to easily. If it is some top class club we get under pressure and if it is some minor club we play easy and when we concede a goal, we get under pressure and as a result continuous bashing.

After the first goal in the Blackburn game we literally lost our touch and in the second half we were as poor as we were against United. With the bigger clubs also losing points, many of the fans would be happy enough that at least others are losing too and that will give our team some breathing space. This happened last year when Walcott after the New Castle match expressed a sigh of relief when he got to know that United have also lost their game.
But the point I want to make is that if you are a top level club or if you want to be the best, you have to stop looking on other team's result. No doubt we love to see other teams losing but what use do we make of that loss? we never utilize the opportunity thrown to us so many times.

In short this week, we had a golden opportunity to close the distance but alas we wasted it. Such opportunities are extremely rare and if we kept on losing at such stages than the result will be similar. We the EPL giants are now resting at 15th position on the table literally fighting for survival. It's a kind of dilemma not only for the club but also for us fans to see so many failures in recent times.

Please do comment what you guys think!