With four rounds of fixtures left to play in the top-flight this season, as well as a number of rearranged ties, it looks increasingly certain that we will be in for an enthralling Premier League 2016-17 finish.

After Leicester City’s heroics last season, few thought that this campaign would live up to expectation, but things still look interesting as we head into the final few weeks.

There have already been a number of twists and turns in this year’s competition and with the Premier League title, the Champions League spaces, the Europa League place, the Golden Boot award and the relegation spots all to be decided, every team and player in this league still has something to play for.

With the majority of these outcomes looking set to go right down to the wire, fans will be left with a magnificent end to the season and are guaranteed a thrilling finale between now and the end of May.

Here are five things to look out for before the end of the Premier League season… 

Arsenal’s tactical switch

Gunners boss Wenger.

The majority of talk around Arsenal this season has revolved around Arsene Wenger and his future at the Emirates Stadium.

Whilst this will continue until the end of the season, unless the Frenchman’s new deal is finalised before the summer, one thing that may be worth keeping an eye on is the club’s recent tactical switch to a three-man defence.

This change has been made in recent weeks and has been fairly effective after guaranteeing three consecutive wins for The Gunners – against struggling Middlesbrough, last year’s Champions Leicester and the other coming in extra-time against Manchester City in their FA Cup semi-final.

By switching to three at the back, Arsenal became the 17th team to play with this system this season, whilst Chelsea could be on course to become the first Premier League champions to win the title by playing this way.

It was, of course, Antonio Conte that began to dominate headlines by playing this system and Wenger admitted himself that it was the first time he had played that way in 20 years.

It will be interesting to see how they fare in their remaining fixtures. 

Just where will Crystal Palace finish?

Well, what a month April has been for Sam Allardyce, who is working wonders with his Crystal Palace side.

After flirting with relegation for a large part of the season, the club has taken 19 points from their last nine games and look to have pretty much guaranteed safety for another season in the top-flight.

During this spell, The Eagles beat the league leaders 2-1 at Stamford Bridge, brushed Arsenal aside at home as they soared to a 3-0 victory and dented Liverpool’s top four hopes as they earned a 2-1 win at Anfield.

Now, the question is just where will the team from Selhurst Park finish this season?

On paper, they have a tough run-in with Burnley, Manchester City, Hull City and Manchester United all still to play.

However, given their current form, the London outfit could carry this into their remaining games and win all of their four final fixtures. This means that we could potentially see them finish as high as eighth, which would be their best-ever finish in the Premier League.

Golden Boot battle: Harry Kane v Romelu Lukaku

Spurs striker Kane.

Now that Spurs frontman Harry Kane has returned from injury, he and Everton striker Romelu Lukaku look set to go head-to-head for this year’s Golden Boot.

Whilst the English forward is looking to achieve back-to back Golden Boots, the Belgian international is getting closer and closer to equalling the record of Gary Lineker’s 30 goals in one top-flight season for Everton and this year will also see him top the club’s goalscoring charts for the third season running.

Lukaku is currently leading the way with 24 goals and, the great thing about this race is that realistically anything can happen and the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Dele Alli, Diego Costa and Sergio Aguero cannot be ruled out until the final whistle blows on the last day of the Premier League season.

One big name that will be missing from this list is Manchester United forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swede superpassed all expectations this season by netting on 17 occasions, but his recent injury has put an end to his chances in this competition, as well as an end to his season and possibly even his Manchester United career.

Fight for 17th place

Swansea City manager Paul Clement.

With relegation looking extremely likely for Middlesbrough and increasingly certain for Sunderland, this will leave one relegation spot remaining and it will now probably be a direct battle between Marco Silva’s Hull City and Paul Clement’s Swansea City.

The likes of AFC Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, Leicester City and West Ham United should have all done enough now to be safe, with the only team who could potentially be drawn in to this fight is Sean Dyche’s Burnley.

Both Hull and Swansea have played 34 games and find themselves on 33 and 31 points respectively.

Whilst Hull seem to be in slightly better form, both clubs won their previous games and Clement would edge Silva out on experience in high-pressure games after competing at some of the biggest clubs alongside Carlo Ancelotti.

This battle will be so interesting and it could come down to the final day of the season with Swansea facing Manchester United, an in-form Everton team, Sunderland and West Brom, whilst Hull must still play Southampton, Crystal Palace, Sunderland and Tottenham – it is really is almost too close to call!

The title race in full swing

Chelsea defeated Tottenham in last weekend’s FA Cup semi-final.

A few weeks ago, the title was pretty much done and dusted – Antonio Conte had seemingly won the title at the first time of asking and the inconsistent nature of the big teams at the top had let them down once again.

However, just a few games later and we now have a fairly serious title race on our hands. Chelsea haven’t been poor in this recent spell, it is just that Tottenham have been better.

They have gone unbeaten in their last eight games, whilst Chelsea have suffered defeats to Crystal Palace and Manchester United in this same period.

There are now only four points separating the two, with both sides having five games left to play. Assuming that Mauricio Pochettino’s men win all of their remaining fixtures, the title race could go right down to the penultimate game of the season.

Chelsea will still be favourites for the top spot, but if they were to blow the title now, it certainly would be one of the biggest title collapses in recent footballing history.