Petr Cech is hoping Arsenal’s season has “turned the corner” after climbing back into the top four.

Arsenal face Huddersfield on Wednesday and Manchester United next Saturday at the Emirates on the back of a much-needed away win at Burnley.

The Gunners have slipped to away defeats at Liverpool, Stoke, Watford and Manchester City this season and their form on their travels was a major worry about their chances of getting back into the Champions League.

But Arsenal keeper Cech, 35, says they can now climb the table if they can string together a run of form and they must not even give up on catching runaway leaders Manchester City.

Cech said: “We said that we wanted to carry on with the big win at home against Tottenham and we needed to back it up. Apart from Everton win away, good result at Chelsea, we haven’t been getting results away from home.

Petr Cech in action against Burnley (
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“But now we got a big win at Burnley and hopefully we’ve turned the corner in terms of the away games and we need to carry on with our home form and if we can get as many away points as well then we will climb up the table.

“We just showed at Burnley that when we play on top of our game we are solid, organised and managed to stick to the plan and if we do that we can win any game.

“But as I said, we have had the lack of consistency in games at times, at times we’ve switched off and we’ve paid for that in the away games particularly this season.

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“It’s only 13 games in, that’s the most important thing and there’s so many points to be won, so many games to be played and you don’t teach your goals after 13 games, you need to carry on for 38 games and show consistency.

“There can be plenty of twists in the table and you see yourselves climb after two wins then have a draw and fall out of the top four pretty quick. It’s packed in there and I think it will be until the end of the season.

“Last year actually we had more points than ever before but ended outside (of the top four) and this year you have six or seven teams playing for the top four so it will be competitive so you have to look at yourself and be consistent.

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“You have to play game by game, not think too much about what’s going on around you because if you win your game then you give yourself a chance. Let’s win our game and see how the others are doing.

“If the other teams at this moment above us and if they keep going, keep winning then you can’t catch the, but first you need to win your games and keep putting pressure on them.”