Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is confident of sustaining their top three challenge.
Wenger has urged his stars to keep their recent run of good form going into the last 10 games of the season.
"It will be about who does the best and they will be the team who focus on the next game and the next result.
"Last season we were in four different competitions and we were knocked out of three in the space of two weeks. We are only human beings.
"On top of that, some results were really going against us, you think about the last minute against Liverpool at home and about Tottenham when we were up.
"These two results killed the hope we had to play for the title and from then on we felt, subconsciously, too secure that we were in the top four of the league anyway.
"Once you don't go for the championship any more it's different.
"This season it's totally different, we were completely out of the top four, we have come into it on a good run and now, of course, it is taking advantage of that momentum." He said: "It is a key time. The fixtures are difficult for Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham.
