Getty ImagesHarry PooleBBC Sport journalist34 minutes agoCJ Cup Byron Nelson – third round leaderboard-23 S Scheffler (US); -15 R Castillo (US), A Schenk (US), E Van Rooyen (SA); -14 K Kitayama (US), J Vegas (Ven)Full leaderboardScottie Scheffler carries a commanding eight-shot lead into the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on Sunday as the world number one closes in on a first win of 2025.The American, 28, carded a five-under-par 66 in his third round to reach an overall 23 under through 54 holes at TPC Craig Ranch in Texas.Second place on 15 under is shared by Scheffler’s compatriots Adam Schenk and Ricky Castillo, and South Africa’s Erik van Rooyen.American Kurt Kitayama and Venezuelan Jhonattan Vegas, on 14 under, are the only other players inside 10 shots of Scheffler, who birdied the 18th on Saturday despite completing his round in darkness after the horn blew to suspend play.On his decision to finish in the gloom, Scheffler explained that he wanted to avoid the nuisance factor of having to return to the course on Sunday morning to complete his third round, before facing a long wait to begin his final 18 holes in the last pairing.He said: “If we were going to come back pretty early in the morning, even if finishing 18 would have cost me a shot, I think it would have saved me a shot [on Sunday] based on energy, not having to come out here early and wait five hours or so to tee off.”Once they gave us the go-ahead to finish, I was definitely very anxious to finish.”He added: “I couldn’t see very well, but I finished in the dark many times growing up. It’s not that big of a deal.”Scheffler set the lowest 36-hole total of his PGA Tour career when he followed his opening 61 with a 63 on Friday.That was also the second-lowest 36-hole total in Tour history after Justin Thomas’ 123 at the 2017 Sony Open.Play was held up for more than six hours during Friday’s storm-affected second round before being suspended, which meant the third round did not begin until the afternoon on Saturday.Scheffler, who won seven titles on the PGA Tour last season, split seven birdies with two bogeys to move closer to victory and the winner’s $1.78m (£1.3m) prize money.Scheffler missed the beginning of this season after undergoing surgery on a hand injury. He finished fourth at last month’s Masters, the first major of the year.Last year he became the first player to win seven PGA Tour titles in a single season since Tiger Woods in 2007.Related topicsGolf

Getty Images18 minutes agoAnthony Joshua says he will undergo elbow surgery this month before making a return to the ring.The two-time world heavyweight champion has been out of action since suffering a devastating fifth-round knockout against Daniel Dubois at Wembley in September.Joshua, 35, said he was “trying to get my body right” before making a comeback.”I’ve got to have a little surgery on my elbow, a small surgery, sometime in May,” Joshua told broadcaster Dazn.He added: “That will see me out of the gym for maybe six to eight weeks and then, as soon as I’m healed, I’ll be back.”Joshua, who has won 28 of his 32 fights, was at ringside in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday to watch Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez defeat William Scull on points.Promoter Eddie Hearn said in April that he remains confident a fight between Joshua and fellow two-time heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury could still happen.Hearn said all it would take is a direct message on social media between the fighters – despite Fury announcing in January that he had retired from boxing.Joshua won Olympic super heavyweight gold at London 2012 before winning his first world title in 2016.The Briton unified the WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight titles in 2018 and reclaimed them from Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019, before being dethroned by Oleksandr Usyk in 2021.Related topicsBoxing

Getty ImagesKal SajadBBC Sport journalist24 minutes ago4 CommentsSaul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will face Terence Crawford in a Las Vegas super-fight in September after outpointing William Scull to regain the undisputed super-middleweight title.Scull danced around for 12 rounds and frustrated Alvarez with potshots, as the Mexican superstar struggled to cut off the ring in a dull contest in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Ultimately, Alvarez’s power punches to the body won him the bout with scores of 115-113, 116-112 and 119-109.”It was a boring fight. A fighter not trying to win and just trying to survive. I hate those kind of fighters,” Alvarez, 34, said.Crawford entered the ring post-fight and two of the sport’s biggest names posed for a face-off.They will meet at the 65,000-seater Allegiant Stadium on 12 September.Crawford, 37, is a four-division and two-weight undisputed champion but will be moving up from light-middleweight.”Everything happens for a reason and there’s a reason why I’m here. In September I’ll show the world what greatness looks like,” he said.’He just came to survive’ – Alvarez frustrated in points winGetty ImagesFighting outside of Mexico or America for the first time as a professional, Alvarez made his ring walk at the unusually early 06:20 local time to cater for audiences back home.As he often does, Alvarez started slowly to feel out his opponent. He landed right and left hooks to the body in the second round and Scull sneaked an uppercut through Alvarez’s guard in the third.But Alvarez was unable to apply any real pressure and was being made to miss by 32-year-old Cuban Scull’s movement.Scull walked back to the corner smiling after the seventh, as if he felt he was on course for the upset.With little action happening inside the ring, the cameras panned to a bored-looking Crawford at ringside.”Let’s fight, there’s too much running around,” British referee Kieran McCann told both fighters before the ninth.Visibly annoyed with his opponent’s approach, Alvarez shook his head as he walked back to his corner after the 10th.Scull complained about low blows, most of which were legitimate punches, and Alvarez was warned for punching when his opponent had his back turned in the 11th. The closer scorecards reflected how neither fighter asserted their dominance in the tedious contest. “He came just to survive until the 12th round,” Alvarez said after his 63rd career win.”I hope September will be another kind of fight.”Canelo & Crawford set for ‘biggest fight of past decade’Getty ImagesAlvarez was stripped of the IBF belt instead of facing Scull last year but once again becomes the king of the super-middleweight division.He said it would be a “pleasure” to defend all four recognised world titles against Crawford.”Crawford is one of the best out there and I like to share with that kind of fighter,” Alvarez said.Crawford is the reigning WBA light-middleweight champion and has won all 41 pro bouts but is likely to be a slight underdog because of his weight disadvantage.He described the blockbuster against Alvarez as the “biggest fight of the past decade”.While it has the potential to break box office and gate receipt records, some boxing purists feel Alvarez has ducked the hard-hitting David Benavidez, an unbeaten American fighter with Mexican heritage who has 24 stoppages in 30 wins and is nicknamed ‘The Mexican Monster’.Related topicsBoxing

Getty ImagesAndrew BensonF1 Correspondent in Miami36 minutes ago9 CommentsMiami Grand PrixVenue: Miami International Autodrome Date: 4 May Race start: 21:00 BST on SundayCoverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live from 20:00; live text updates on BBC Sport website and appMcLaren’s Lando Norris said he was “very happy” after qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix, despite losing out on pole position to Max Verstappen.Norris ended up 0.065 seconds from the Red Bull driver and, while his satisfaction was mixed with some frustration, it was based on his feeling that he has made progress with some of the problems with which he has been struggling this season.The Briton has been open about the fact he finds his McLaren car does not ‘talk to him’ in the way he would like when being pushed to the absolute limit on a qualifying lap.And while he again made a mistake that he felt cost him pole position, their communication has been better this weekend at the Hard Rock Stadium.Norris, who won Saturday’s sprint race, said that “Max did a Max lap once again and I can’t fault him”. So in the context of that, and his own weekend, second was not too bad.”I’m very happy with the end result,” Norris said. “Just a shame when you miss out on pole, so that’s the only frustrating bit.”But I’ve been trying different things, I’ve been doing different things with the team to try and work a bit more in this area and things have been taking a step forward. So I’m happy. Maybe not quite there yet, but happy with the progress.”His team-mate Oscar Piastri, too, felt he should have been in the fight for pole with Verstappen.But the Australian, leading the championship by nine points after his third victory of the season in Saudi Arabia last time out, said he was fourth because of “poor execution”.Piastri added: “The gap has always been close, and our advantage has been a little more on Sundays, but our picture of where we stand is that if we make mistakes we are going to be beaten and that’s been true through the year.”Team principal Andrea Stella says McLaren have now seen enough of a pattern to work out what has been happening to allow Verstappen to take three poles in six races.”We have now enough statistics to confirm what was already our initial impression in Bahrain during the (pre-season) test,” Stella said, “that the car was easier to exploit in terms of performance in race simulation runs, rather than on a single lap with qualifying trim and new tyres.”We have seen that pretty much so far we haven’t had any perfect lap.”We are definitely trying to assess on a solid engineering basis our understanding so that we can make some adjustments that our drivers can test to see if we can give them a car that is just slightly more predictable and rich of information in terms of how the grip is when driving the car at the limit.”He added: “Just to make sure that my point is clear, it’s a car that doesn’t give you much ‘cueing’, which is the technical word we use, and this means that it’s not easy for our drivers to repeat some big performances that we can see in individual laps.”Upgrades are coming to try to solve this, and Red Bull have their own in Miami, a new floor that is the first of a number of developments they hope will allow Verstappen to challenge the McLaren drivers more consistently in races.”What we are trying to achieve of course is a better balance in the car,” Verstappen said. “Now this track is not always the easiest to say that you have improved or nailed something because it’s just a really weird layout I would say. So it takes a bit more time.”But for sure it was not negative. And yeah, from here we can work and try to improve it further because from my feeling, of course, we’re not there yet. We need quite a bit more to be really in a fight.”Getty ImagesIn McLaren’s view, Red Bull have not been painting the most accurate picture of the competitive picture between the two teams.”Red Bull, they are very good at making fast cars,” Stella said. “They are very exceptionally good, I would say, at driving fast cars, and they are extremely good also in creating the narrative to their advantage.”They exploit every possible opportunity to stay in the competition, and some of these opportunities sometimes is to create the narrative, like, ‘oh, we are making miracles here, the others should win every single practice session and qualifying and race.'”This is the narrative created by some of our competitors, which we read occasionally and then we change the page and we focus on ourselves.”The grid sets up an intriguing race. The title contenders are in reverse order, with an interloper between Norris and Piastri in the form of Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli.And Norris scents an opportunity to nail his first victory since the opening race of the season in Australia back in March.In qualifying, he made errors at the last corner on both his laps, each time costing about 0.2secs, so he knows the pace is in the car.”Max has always been good in qualifying and as a team we have struggled a little more in qualifying, whether that’s set-up or what, I’m not too sure,” Norris said.”We know the Red Bulls are running high downforce, which allows them especially with the DRS (in qualifying) to be a lot more competitive. But it’s a long race and we know we have good pace in both conditions.”I don’t just expect competition from Max. Kimi’s been quick all weekend and Oscar has been as well. So yeah, I just expect a tough race from all accounts.”Related topicsFormula 1

Getty ImagesMantej MannBBC Sport Journalist46 minutes ago48 Comments”We punched them in the face.”Alex Mitchell’s reference to an act of violence after 80 minutes of compelling European rugby at Aviva Stadium may have delivered an element of surprise.It was, however, an emotive reflection which suitably matched a Northampton Saints performance that left Leinster with more than a bloodied nose in their Investec Champions Cup semi-final. Fuelled with vengeance for last year’s defeat at the same stage and a quiet confidence amid a backdrop of external doubt, the reigning Premiership champions produced the knockout blow to end Leinster’s pursuit of a fifth star on the jersey – a stunning 37-34 win.”A couple of pundits were saying they’re going to win by 20-30 points and that Saints won’t score a point,” Saints and England scrum-half Mitchell told RTE.”We showed up today and were a bit more fearless this time around. Last year, we were waiting to see what Leinster were going to do.”We showed up today and the first 20 minutes, we punched them in the face. They weren’t really expecting that. Credit to the boys, we got the result.”Confidence in Leinster reaching a fourth consecutive final from fans and pundits alike was well-founded.The Irish province pitched up at their vociferous Dublin home without having conceded a point in thumping knockout victories over Harlequins and United Rugby Championship title-holders Glasgow Warriors.Saints, though, had not read the script. England wing Tommy Freeman scored a first-half hat-trick to extend his tally to seven tries in his past three Champions Cup appearances and further strengthen his claim for British and Irish Lions selection, while Henry Pollock’s star continues to rise after his searing try.The hosts responded after half-time, but, somewhat uncharacteristically, lacked the clinical edge to regain the lead, while Saints were able to negate Leinster’s blitz defence once more as James Ramm scored their fifth try.Ireland wing James Lowe dragged his side to within three points to set up a thrilling finale but, after referee Pierre Brousset awarded Leinster a late penalty instead of a try, Northampton salvaged possession with a last-gasp turnover camped on their own line before kicking the ball dead.Saints director of rugby Phil Dowson was a member of the playing squad the last time the club overcame Leinster in 2013, but the former back row’s masterminding of their latest victory is perhaps the greatest of his coaching career.”Lots of people wrote us off and we understood we were underdogs but the belief within the group was outstanding,” Dowson told BBC Radio Northampton. “I would hate to think what my blood pressure was doing at the end but the last defensive set spoke volumes about our group, about the lads coming on and their impact. We got the turnover, killed the clock and cue the wild scenes in the coaching box.”We have had experience before of playing into a press defence. We had practised playing through it and we revisited those principles. There were more opportunities we could’ve taken but we took enough to get on the scoresheet.”‘Why not us?’ – Pollock delivers in toughest arenaSaints’ biggest test remains against either Bordeaux-Begles or six-time winners Toulouse in this season’s showpiece in Cardiff, but if this victory is the greatest of Dowson’s era so far, his greatest servant could yet prove to be the influential Pollock, who is still remarkably in his debut campaign as a senior player.The young back row, 20, has broken into Northampton’s side, made his England Test debut and is a contender for Lions selection just 12 months on from watching last season’s defeat at Croke Park in fancy dress as a supporter. “That was a battle. I have never played in a game that hard in my life,” Pollock told Premier Sports.”That is what dreams are made of. “As a boy I grew up watching this competition and to get to the final with my boyhood club, I’m emotional speaking about it. “After the last two performances these Leinster boys had, to come here with no fear, we have been saying all week, ‘Why not us?’.”Pollock’s all-round performance belied his level of experience, while his try demonstrated the physical prowess of a back as he launched on to Mitchell’s flat pass from a standing start to glide through a hole in Leinster’s defence, before sprinting around final defender Sam Prendergast.Asked about applying two fingers to his neck in celebration, an enthused Pollock added: “I was just feeling that pulse. “This is why you play the game, because you love it. The fans, the sport, going up against the best back row in the world was amazing. Bring on Cardiff.”Related topicsNorthampton SaintsLeinsterRugby Union

Getty ImagesAndrew BensonF1 Correspondent in Miami3 May 2025, 22:25 BST175 CommentsUpdated 11 minutes agoMiami Grand PrixVenue: Miami International Autodrome Date: 4 May Race start: 21:00 BST on SundayCoverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live from 20:00; live text updates on BBC Sport website and appRed Bull’s Max Verstappen beat McLaren’s Lando Norris to pole position at the Miami Grand Prix.Verstappen headed Norris, who won the sprint race earlier on Saturday, by 0.065 seconds.Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, on pole for the sprint, grabbed third ahead of the second McLaren of Oscar Piastri.Mercedes’ George Russell was fifth ahead of the Williams of Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon, as Ferrari struggled, with Charles Leclerc eighth and Lewis Hamilton down in 12th.Verstappen’s pole, in a car with an upgraded floor this weekend, was won with a blistering first sector of the lap. The Red Bull’s speed in the fast sweepers there was too much for McLaren to claw back in the remainder of the lap.”It’s been a great qualifying,” Verstappen said. “We improved the car a tiny amount, which helped me rotate it a bit better.”Q1, Q2, Q3 improving every run. Trying to find the limit. I had a tiny moment into Turn One trying to find more time there but it’s very tricky here with the tyres. It’s qualifying, try to correct it and floor it out of the corner.”It was a second piece of good news for the four-time champion this week, after the birth of his first child, a daughter called Lily.Norris said: “Congrats to Max, especially being a dad now. I was hoping it would slow him down a bit but it clearly didn’t.”Max did a Max lap again and I’m happy for him. The pace is there. I have been feeling good. It is what it is, I’m P2, Max on pole, ready to see what I can do into Turn One.”Antonelli’s third place proved his pole in the sprint on Friday was not a flash in the pan, on a weekend where he is showing the spark of prodigious talent that convinced Mercedes to put the 18-year-old straight into their team in his debut season. He beat team-mate George Russell by 0.114secs.It also made amends to some degree for a disappointing sprint result, where he lost the lead at the start and then was hit by Verstappen’s car in the pits and finished seventh.”This weekend is going well so far,” he said. “It was a bit disappointing this morning, but happy to bounce back. I was a bit too greedy into Turn One but the rest of the lap was quite good. The gaps are super-tight.”A strong showing for Williams in sixth and seventh underlined the troubles of Ferrari, where Leclerc was 0.483secs off the pace and Hamilton failed to make it into the top 10 shootout.He was just 0.058secs off Leclerc in the second session, but that was enough for four places, and it left him ruing a decision not to use an extra set of new tyres that he had available.”It’s always a surprise every session you go out what the car is doing,” Hamilton said. “It’s a bit of a mess at the moment balance-wise. Unfortunate to have not got through. Same old.”Leclerc said: “It is just not good enough. It is frustrating because it is those kind of days and it has been quite a few races already that I feel I am doing a really good job. But when you are finishing P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, it is just a shame. I have no satisfaction of doing a good job.”I am just hoping we can turn the situation around as soon as possible but at the moment that is the situation we are in and there is not much I can do.”Related topicsFormula 1

SWPixStuart BrennanBBC Sport England3 May 2025110 CommentsBetfred Super LeagueSt Helens (0) 4Try: Whitley Leeds (10) 17Tries: Lumb, Miller, Gannon Goals: Miller 2 Drop-goal: SinfieldLeeds Rhinos sealed a Magic Weekend win over St Helens which cranked up the pressure on Saints coach Paul Wellens.The Rhinos forged ahead in a bright opening with tries from Riley Lumb and Lachlan Miller but the game degenerated into a messy affair with both sides making unforced errors.Matt Whitley struck back for Saints early in the second half but Lewis Murphy’s sin-binning, a Jack Sinfield drop-goal and Morgan Gannon’s late try ensured Leeds took the win which sends them fourth in Super League.Defeat means Saints have now lost six of their past nine games after starting the season with four straight wins.Leeds leapfrog their opponents with a third win in four games, a run only spoiled by their defeat by leaders Hull KR last week.They got that loss out of their system in the opening phase as Gannon’s smart kick popped up nicely for Lumb to pounce and score after Gannon and Ash Handley had opened up the defence.Ten minutes later more enterprising attacking play from the Rhinos saw Harry Newman send Alfie Edgell racing down the right, and he passed the ball inside to send Miller over and establish a 10-point lead at half time.Lumb pulled off a try-saving tackle on Jon Bennison but Saints rarely troubled the Leeds line in the first half.Wellens sent on experienced pair Daryl Clark and Jonny Lomax, the latter controversially dropped a fortnight ago, and for a short while they started to piece their game together and shortly into the second half they cracked the Leeds defence as Whitley went over.That sparked an attacking spell for Saints, with Leeds errors inviting pressure and Saints squandering it with scrappy disorganised rugby.Tristan Sailor’s interception and sprint downfield set Saints up perfectly but an incorrect play-the-ball cost them possession in a threatening position, a moment that summed up their game.Murphy’s sin-binning took the wind out of their sails and came as he leaped high to gather a kick and caught Edgell in the face with his knee, as the Leeds man kept his feet firmly planted on the ground.Murphy was disconsolate and Wellens infuriated, and Leeds took advantage by going up the other end, with Sinfield coolly drop-kicking the ball between the posts.Saints’ misery was compounded as what seemed to be a debut try for Deon Cross was ruled out for a knock-on in the build-up before Gannon capped a fine display by powering over for a try that made sure of the points.Murphy yellow ‘ridiculous’ – reactionSt Helens boss Paul Wellens:”The start of the game really did hurt us. We were winning exchanges in terms of the defensive side of things but both edges got done and we made it very difficult for ourselves from that point on.”We dug in, rallied, went down to 12 men and dug deep through that period as well. There were certain bits of the performance that were okay in that respect but I feel like in some ways I keep repeating myself.”On Lewis Murphy’s yellow card:”I thought it was ridiculous. Lewis Murphy goes up and contests the ball. He’s got eyes for one thing and one thing only and that’s the ball.”We had Jake Wingfield in a Challenge Cup game at Warrington knocked out cold and we were told then it was just an accidental rugby injury.”So what’s the difference between that then and this here tonight? It’s quite flabbergasting to be honest because that was a big momentum shift in the game.”We were going on strong and then they went up the other end of the field and made it 11-4. I thought it was a ridiculous call.”Leeds Rhinos head coach Brad Arthur:”I thought the boys were brave and tough. It’s been a long six weeks for us. We’ve had some big games and every game we’ve had to fight really hard.”We’ve probably got what we deserve I think and put ourselves in a position. Those past six games to win every one of those games, we’ve made it hard even for ourselves tonight and we’re still learning but we found a way.”We came out in the second half and looked a bit flat and a bit tired at times but we hung on and that was a result where we’ve worked extremely hard. The attitude and effort has been outstanding.”On Lewis Murphy’s sin binning:”It’s accidental but at the end of the day the rules are it’s the player’s responsibility to make sure you don’t make contact with the head. And that’s what’s been officiated for the past nine or 10 weeks, so you can’t change it now. “It was accidental and I feel sorry for the fella but that’s the rules.”St Helens: Sailor; Bennison, Cross, Percival, Murphy; Welsby, Whitby; Paasi, Mbye, Lees, Sironen, Whitley, KnowlesInterchanges: Lomax, Walmsley, Clark, DelaneyLeeds: Miller; Edgell, Newman, Handley, Lumb; Connor, Sinfield; Palasia, O’Connor, Oledzki, McDonnell, Gannon, WatkinsInterchanges: Holroyd, Lisone, Bentley, JenkinsReferee: Jack SmithRelated topicsLeeds RhinosRugby LeagueSt Helens

Getty ImagesGary RoseBBC Sport journalist14 minutes ago14 CommentsWhat Arsenal needed before the biggest game in their recent history was momentum.What they didn’t need was a full-strength side going down to a first-ever home defeat by Bournemouth.Unfortunately for Mikel Arteta that is what happened as the Gunners’ preparations for Wednesday’s pivotal Champions League semi-final second leg at Paris St-Germain were dealt a blow by Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the Cherries.Arsenal’s aspirations for the remainder of this campaign rest entirely on success in Europe, and they head to the French capital needing to overturn a 1-0 loss from the first leg.That task looks even harder now, after Bournemouth battled back from Declan Rice’s opener with two goals in the second half, but Arteta believes such a loss could ultimately work in their favour.”It didn’t create the right momentum,” he said. “It created a lot of anger, frustration, rage, disappointment. “Let’s use all of that on Wednesday. That’s what we have to do.”What do Arsenal need to do to beat PSG?For a start, the Gunners need to be better at defending set-pieces.While they were far from at their best against Bournemouth they were in control of the game, as the visitors did not manage a shot on target for the first hour.But their first such attempt resulted in an equaliser as Dean Huijsen headed in from Antoine Semenyo’s long throw.A set-piece was again Arsenal’s undoing for the winner as a corner was flicked on to the far post for Evanilson to bundle in. Of the goals Arsenal have conceded this season 38.7% have come from set-piece situations – the most in the English top flight.Arsenal have to score on Wednesday and then somehow keep out a PSG side that has scored a league-high 42 goals in 16 Ligue 1 games at home so far this season.In their past five Premier League games Arsenal have taken the lead, but in four of those games they failed to hold on to that advantage.In total they have dropped 21 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season, their joint-most in a single campaign (also 21 in 2019-20).The other concern to arise from Saturday’s defeat was that after Bournemouth took the lead in the 75th minute, the Gunners did not manage a single attempt on or off target.”At the minute, looking at that you just cannot see it [Arsenal beating PSG],” former West Ham goalkeeper Rob Green said on BBC Radio 5 live.”You take Declan Rice out of the equation of this team and you’ve got a group of players bereft of confidence and ideas on how to score goals and have an incisive edge.”There’s work to do and so little time to do it.”‘A major wobble’ at the wrong time for Arsenal?This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.For the vast majority of the season Arsenal were Liverpool’s main challengers for the Premier League title, but their disappointing run of form recently means they are clinging on to second place.They are three points ahead of Manchester City in third, but if Newcastle beat Brighton on Sunday that gap will be down to two.Should Chelsea, who are fourth, win at home to Liverpool and fifth-placed Nottingham Forest triumph at Crystal Palace on Monday then they will be four points behind.With three games to go that would mean a finish in the top four could be under threat for the Gunners – just as well that this time the top five will secure Champions League football for next season.”Are the wheels off at Arsenal?” ex-Premier League striker Chris Sutton said on BBC Radio 5 live. “They are having a major wobble, aren’t they?”It may not be quite as dramatic as that, but Arteta knows the Gunners need to be much-improved from their recent performances to avoid their season fizzling out even more than it is already threatening to do so.”We have a lot to do, yes, because mathematically we are not qualified [for the Champions League],” he said.”We haven’t had the right to finish second yet, so we still have a lot to do.”Related topicsPremier LeagueArsenalFootball