Winning a major trophy should be Arsenal's priority

The defeat against Southampton have re-calibrated some fans expectations.

Personally I always thought this season, our minimum expectation would be to see us challenge for top 4 once more. A good season would be finishing 3rd (I expected Manchester City to run away with it, and Liverpool to finish adrift of them, but well ahead of 3rd). An average season would be 5th, just a handful of points behind 4th.

Despite losing to Southampton, my expectations have not changed. We are just 3 points of Chelsea in 4th, and 5 points behind Tottenham in 3rd.

Over at McBookie, you can get odds of 13/8 for Arsenal to finish top 4. These seem extremely long considering that there is just 3 points between us in 5th and Chelsea in 4th.

With fans changing their expectations, I have seen some say we should focus on top 4 rather than go for one of the cups. We are 6th favourites to win the FA Cup, 3rdfavourites in the League Cup and 2nd favourites in the Europa League. The 6/1 on offer for the Europa League look attractive.

I would not sacrifice the League Cup this week for the weekend game against Burnley.

Firstly it is against Spurs. At no point is losing to Tottenham an “acceptable sacrifice”.

We need to take the game seriously and start off the next 22 game unbeaten run.

Manchester City away to Leicester City is not a foregone conclusion, and neither is Chelsea at home to Bournemouth. We could quite easily see ourselves in a semi-final against Leicester City, Middlesbrough or Bournemouth.