Speaking to the Daily Mail, Tim Howard said: "I've backed Arsenal to win the Premier League for two successive seasons. I was wrong last year and and there is a decent chance that Mikel Arteta will go without a trophy once more.
"So would that represent failure for this team and this manager? I don't think so. Very few teams do what Leicester did and win the Premier League out of nowhere. Very few teams pop up all of a sudden and land a major trophy.
"The vast majority have to go close and fail. Then go closer and fail again before eventually it happens. Manchester City had to do that — even after buying all these superstars and pumping all this money into the club.
"It took Liverpool a long time to get back to that perch. So it's not failure, it's growth. If it's not this year, Arsenal will go close to next year and the year after that. This squad is young and built to do that. Arteta has found a formula."
Arsenal responded to their disappointing Champions League exit earlier this month by securing two massive results in the Premier League.
The 2–0 and 5–0 wins against Wolves and Chelsea mean that the Gunners are ready to push Man City all the way until the final day of the season.
Arsenal : Raya, Tomiyasu (Zinchenko 72 ) , dos Santos Magalhães, Saliba, White, Rice, Partey (Jorginho 72 ) , Odegaard, Havertz (de Jesus 72 ) , Trossard (Martinelli 72 ) , Saka (Ferreira Vieira 82 )
Chelsea : Petrović, Cucurella, Badiashile, Disasi, Gilchrist (Thiago Silva 78 ) , Caicedo, Fernández (Chalobah 67 ) , Mudryk (Sterling 66 ) , Gallagher, Madueke (Casadei 79 ) , Jackson
1:0 - 4 Leandro Trossard (Declan Rice) ,
3:0 - 57 Kai Havertz (Martin Ødegaard) ,
Mikel Arteta ( 45+1 ) ,