The Arsenal title offer received two potentially fatal blows during the weekend, which ended with Liverpool 11 points at the top of the table.
The Gunners lost 1-0 at home against West Ham United on Saturday, before Liverpool won 2-0 in Manchester City the Super Sunday.
A crisis of attack injuries saw Gabriel Jesús, Kai Hvertz, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli, all Saturday games at the Emirates stadium.
In his absence, the chief of the Gunners, Mikel Arteta, began the midfielder Mikel Merino as an impromptu striker, with Leandro Trosssard and Ethan Nwaneri, 17, on both sides.
Speaking on Sunday, the former Manchester United captain, Gary Neville, criticized the lack of arsenal transfers planning, citing this as a main cause of his inability to deal with injury problems and maintain the rhythm of Liverpool.
But Neville also suggested that the rise to the fame of the coach of the piece Nicolas Jover was partly guilty that Arsenal found that it is difficult to score from the open game.
The piece coach, Nicolas Jover (right) and the manager Mikel Artet
Jover won public popularity for the first time last season when his free kick and corner routines began to attract attention among fans. Since then, he has rarely been far from the side of the Arteta manager in the touch line during the matches, while there is even a mural of him out of the Emirates.
Arsenal scored 20 goals from the Premier League of the pieces last season, more than any other team. They have scored 10 goals established so far in this term.
Sky Sports Pundit Neville said: 'It is a defense (having multiple injuries to attack the players), but then you have to plan it.
'I know they didn't want to do business in the January transfer window. They thought there was not the type of value in the market or could not get the player who would enter and impact, but they have left brief. There is no doubt about that.
'And they have fallen short. Even without (the injured) players, they still have to do that job yesterday.
'In the last two seasons, they have gone very close, and I had a lot of admiration for them. I felt they were approaching (to win the title). This season is more a problem for them than the last two. Because when the city would not be there, the team that had to be there was Arsenal due to growth and how close they were approaching.
Jover has become a hero of Arsenal cult and even now has a mural dedicated to him in London
'And they won't be them, it doesn't seem anyway.
'That is the big surprise and surprise. And that will be the one that will most affect in that Arsenal Board Hall, and with Mikel Arteta, the costumes and the players, because they are desperate to win a title and would have felt that they were moving closer. So it's a blow.
'Liverpool has fallen points in its last eight games. Liverpool has drawn two in the last three, drawn four in the last eight. Arsenal had the opportunity to approach again, yesterday they could have gone within five points. It is a great blow. A really big blow.
'The questions will begin to ask, because it is that type of season where you think it was at stake. Arne Slot has entered as the new manager, (Jurgen) Klopp's Left. I certainly felt that there would be a fall in Liverpool, but Slot was a great customer from day one. It is in total control.
'Arsenal has become quite rigid, sometimes they have become quite turgid. This obsession with the pieces, which exceeded its entire game, exacerbated by this presence of the coach of the piece in the touch line that focuses more on the pieces. It's like … no. Freedom has left a little of them.
'I know they have lost Saka, and I know they have lost Jesus, and I know they have lost Havverts, which are great blows. I mean, let's be clear, that is a big problem for Arsenal. But I'm still thinking that you have to do that job yesterday against West Ham at home.
Gary Neville says that Arsenal's dependence on the pieces has become less creative to the open game
Heaven's expert Jamie Redknapp got into the Arsenal at the beginning of the weekend when he said that Arteta's men were no longer good to see.
'I think they have been a difficult watch. I have never really seen that fluidity, movement, emotion for your game. They have bogged down with parts of sets and everything is about that. And it has been a difficult watch for them, you know.
“And especially this year, where they would have felt, you know, with Manchester City fighting so much,” this is our chance “, they are not really taking it. And I know they have injuries, but you can see that it is bringing declan rice in the end .
'You can't find that rhythm in the team you want. He has his own way of playing, and is trying to do it and wants to win so much and is getting too nervous. That transmits fans. You have to try to keep calm and simply put some rhythm.
'Forget about Liverpool right now, just make sure they begin to get some rhythm, winning some games. Did you say they had the Nottingham forest in the middle of the week? I mean, I couldn't think of a more difficult place to go right now, that's really difficult for them. They have to find a way.
'Much of this has been inflicted by himself, I think, when I look at the arsenal. It is very easy to blame everyone else, but the actions have not been good enough so far. '