#2 Arsenal – 2015-2016
If there was one word to describe Arsenal’s 2015-2016 season, it would be odd, but that would only be in correspondence of the league season that saw Leicester City win the league. Defending champions Chelsea ended up tenth and Crystal Palace managed not to win a Premier League fixture for four months and still reached a cup final.
Still, Arsenal’s season was somewhat surreal as they finished higher than they ever managed for 11 years, but at the same time, they watched their best chance of a title crash and burn in the second half of the season.
The Gunners didn’t start their season well, with an opening day loss to West Ham and then five games later losing again, this time to Chelsea, but they soon turned things around, with wins over Leicester City, Manchester United, and Everton, as they went on a five-game winning run.
However, a stunning 4-0 loss to Southampton on Boxing day saw everything slowly unravel but it was between January and March when the cookie crumbled. The new year wasn’t a good one for the Gunners, and barring a ten-game unbeaten run towards the end of the season, 2016 had been atrocious.
A late Joe Allen equaliser cost Arsenal two important points at Anfield and Oliver Giroud went on a 16-game scoreless run, which further put a dent in Arsenal’s title hopes. Things went from bad to worse as the Gunners suffered injury troubles. It was a make or break point in Arsenal's season and they bottled it to end the season second behind eventual champions, Leicester City.
