The English premier league is survival for the fittest. Consistency is the only active factor that matters in football, especially in elevated competitions. Arsenal lacks the consistency to keep winning games, ceding points to mediocre clubs, and bargaining with equal strength in the last days of the Premier League season. Pep Guardiola knows his former colleague's weaknesses and made advantage of them, streak winning games and putting the gunners' confidence fully on the point of defeats, meeting them numerous times and winning them in all phases.
Yeah consistency is the key behind any club's success but with Arsenal, they started very well and were consistent for almost most of the games until the injuries to the crucial players hit us and we started to wobble a bit and dropped lot of crucial points we needed near the end of the season. Still we did our best and managed to finish 2nd which isn't bad considering how we have struggled to get into top 4 over the years. Arteta is making team strong bit by bit so I am confident that if things goes like this then we will be able to win PL soon in coming years.
For other leagues that don't have such high competition, maybe that's not a problem, look at me Paris Saint Germain, they have been inconsistent this season but they can still be champions, because their competitors also can't do competition. But this is the Premier League, we know that the competition here is very tight, not even just the big clubs, even the clubs that are considered weak here can still provide very tough resistance. Likewise happened to Arsenal, when they made frequent mistakes and lost consistency, they had to give up their position to be taken by another club.
Manchester City got another title and earned another achievement with their coach Pep Guardiola, the only thing left for them is to earn the champions league title and they have to beat Inter Milan for that.
Manchester City's plan for this season is to earn a triple trophy this season. They have won two, it remains one which is the champions league. On Friday, Manchester City will face Inter for the champions league title. If luck favors them and they won against Inter that would be the biggest achievement for Pep Guardiola for being the first coach that has made Manchester City lift their first-ever champions league title. I don't think Manchester City would let the opportunity to lift the champions league title slip them the way it did last season
I don't think that Manchester City will depend on luck in the Champions League finals. I know that the game of football is luck and skills. Manchester City I know with their great form this season will rather depend on skills and not luck to earn the Champions League title.
They gave dreamt about it,
They have worked for it,
They have been disappointed many times,
This time could be their time.
The luck factor must indeed be considered, but it was very big luck when they were a weak club that was not predicted to be in the final, instead they managed to make it to the final. But Manchester City is different, they did really well and they deserve to be in this final. When their ability on the field is very good, luck will chase them, not them who have to chase luck. I think anyone who's seen Manchester City this season, would say they deserved to be champions, except they were so unlucky in this final.