Arsenal has one last blow to save his season Topsy-Turvy

That should not have been the end for Arsenal.

The shooters should achieved their first top-four finish in three years. Their disappointing defense should held together long enough to allow the team to score more than one point in four critical games. The bizarre nebbish that make this team vibrate should roared in form instead of farting and dying. But Arsenal is never doing what it should and now, its hopes of qualifying for the Champions League by finishing in the top four in the Premier League are dead.

But redemption is always possible. If Arsenal manages to win the Europa League final against Chelsea in the last two European finals, he will get a place in the Champions League in the first year of his life after Arsene Wenger. They have a chance to stabilize the club in anticipation of a tumultuous summer and move on to the Unai Emery era with a positive momentum and the promise of a high level competition. Or they could eat shit, lose, and once again make their way through the Europa League next season. Nobody wants it and the stakes of this month's final are as important as they could be for the Gunners.

It would be fair, even generous, to describe this Arsenal campaign as hot and cold. After two defeats in the league, Emery's men did not lose again for four months, beating Tottenham and leading Liverpool to a tie. New midfielder Lucas Torreira was superb and the front-line duo of Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang excelled. Even during this fruitful period, the unfortunate (and unfortunately accurate) consensus was that Arsenal was lucky, as the winning streak was peppered with late goals, lucky rebounds, and slow defenses; which prevented the bad finish and the maintenance of the goals.

Nevertheless, in the Premier League, it is not the "how" but the "number" that counts, and the debatable roundness of a nice little run in the league mattered less than the points on the board. Arsenal's 11 consecutive wins in all competitions from late August to late October were their best performance in 12 years. No team will ever achieve anything without at least a little luck, and an optimist might have thought that Arsenal could hold on long enough to boost the confidence they had put in until the beginning of the year.

Instead, Hector Bellerin's LCA ran out of smoke and the defense won out. Liverpool exposed the duo of molasses Sokratis and Shkodran Mustafi with a 5-1 record in late December, and when Bellerín was sidelined for the season, Arsenal's defense ability in any space is dead. The bottom did indeed fall in mid-April, just after Arsenal finished the 31st day in third place.

After dividing 1-0 with Watford and Everton, Arsenal started their series of brutal victories. Next came a 3-2 loss to Crystal Palace, 3-1 to Wolves, 3-0 to Leicester and a draw to Brighton. At the beginning of April, it seemed that Arsenal would head to Tottenham and possibly even catch Chelsea for third place. As the last day of the season approaches, Arsenal must win, make the Spurs lose and get the combined score of these two results totaling at least one shot of sending eight goals to place themselves ahead of Spurs at fourth place, unlike goals. This does not happen.

However, in Europe, things went well. Arsenal has hired Unai Emery to replace Arsène Wenger, due in part to its history: conquering Europe's second-rate continental competition. His Sevilla teams have won three consecutive European titles and he has demonstrated his astonishing talent for balancing his team's ambitions on two fronts. In the absence of prestigious means or names to credibly fight for a title or even to really defeat the rest of the six big EPL in the first four races, the Europa League seemed the surest way to return to the Champions League. Suffice it to say that Arsenal has taken the competition seriously.

The Gunners defeated BATE Borisov, passed near Rennes, eliminated Napoli, then smoked 7-3 in Valencia on two legs to book their ticket to the final, a season after a fall in the semifinals. The 4-2 night at Mestalla was Arsenal at its peak. Kevin Gameiro opened the scoring early, but a nice counter-attack and a ruthless finish from the strikers allowed Arsenal to clinch a stunning victory. Aubameyang had the hat trick, run all night in front of and around Valencia defenders and finally converted some of the many chances he had won. Lacazette looked great all night, both to install her partner and to look for her own fault. His goal was probably the best of the night.

But bumping on BATE Borisov and even Valencia does not make a successful season. Arsenal did not replace Wenger after 65 years at the helm, which allowed him to finish fifth and secure more sludge in the Europa League. Emery still had a mandate to bring Arsenal back to the Champions League. Although the Premier League campaign had its good times, it finally failed. And it all boils down to the final against Chelsea.

The two teams split into a clash this season. Although Chelsea has already almost qualified for the Champions League by finishing fourth in the league, the Blues will do everything possible to win a trophy. If Arsenal lost, they could not promise to play in the Champions League to whoever they would like to sign this summer, and the first year of Emery's reign will be an interesting failure. This does not bode well for his immediate future, nor for that of the team.

But if they win, the Gunners will be able to face future players on the most sacred tradition of Arsenal, which finishes second in the UCL group stage and then immediately loses 9-0 in the round of 16. Dynamics counts at this level and Arsenal has a real chance of generating some. And everything is based on a game