Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says the Gunners cannot afford to drop anymore points in the Premier League if they want a Champions League spot next season.

The Gunners are currently placed fifth in the Premier League standings with 50 points, having won 15 out of 26 matches played so far this season.

With six teams battling it out for four Champions League places, it is set to be a fierce run-in to the end of the Premier League season.

The 67-year-old manager insists that his side have it all to play for now and has urged the Gunners to stop throwing points away if they want to book their place in the Champions League next season.

‘It’s a strange championship because there’s no continuity at the moment – we’ve had games cancelled, then after you play away, you don’t play, you play FA Cup and you play away again,’ Wenger told the Arsenal website.

‘So you don’t really know where you stand. You don’t have the same number of games, you don’t have the continuity home and away. What is for sure, is that we are in a position where we can’t waste points.

‘We want to play in the Champions League next season. We have a tough job, because we have six or seven teams fighting for the places and how well we do until the end of the season will, of course, depend on that.

The French manager insists that another one of his targets is to clinch the club’s 13th FA Cup trophy, which would be a record in the history of the competition.

‘On the rest, we are in the semi-finals of the FA Cup, we have an opportunity to do that as well. So overall those are our targets. After that, success is basically to take the maximum out of the potential of the team. Where is that? We will see,’ he added.

Arsenal will now take on West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on Saturday.

The match at the Hawthorns kicks off at 14:30.

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