Arsenal are currently on a bad run, having lost their past three games and winning only one of their last six games, drawing the other two.
Other than the Fulham game, where they clearly struggled, they dominated the other games, but their one flaw was not burying the many chances they generated in front of goal. Versus West Ham and Versus Liverpool, they would have easily picked wins if they had just been sharp in front of goal.
Any Gooner would tell you that the Gunners are struggling because their forwards have been firing blanks.
Arsenal players and staff have flown to Dubai for a week of training. And I suppose Arteta should have one aim while there: his team should all go and learn how to finish; that’s all Gooners expect.
After a disappointing end to last season, many Arsenal fans were hopeful Arteta and his boys might redeem themselves this season by mounting a strong title challenge. At the moment, there are doubts about their title credentials. But they may yet improve their fortunes despite being five points off the top of the Premier League; they must just be clinical when they return to competitive football. Their next game will be against Crystal Palace at the Emirates on January 20th. I hope that game will be a turning point.
The Gunners should find their scoring boots and improve their efficiency in front of goal. A clinical Arsenal attack is bad news for any team, but they appear to have lost their mojo this season.
Sylvester
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You can have all the breaks and “resets” you want but if you are not good enough to succeed you are not good enough and Arsenal are not good enough.
They have been found out and the managers inability to counter the oppositions tactics and the disinterested appearance of Saka, Martinelli and Co leads me to wonder of they can even secure top four.
Boots are useless without a reliable scorer.
If we get a proven CF he will score and we will also see more goals from Saka, Marty, Odegaard and others as well.
It’s straight to the point.
Problem with Arteta is trying to be too clever for his own good. Creating problems and trying to solve them to prove his intelligence evidenced by his ridiculous claim of playing 46 formations in one half of the game.
As well as playing one of the best midfielders in the world at RB while benching one of the best CB in the league, buying a substandard player and disrupt team formation to fit him and loaning an inferior keeper to bench one of the top in league, for no reason whatsoever.
Intelligent coach who is hell-bent on sabotaging his rise to the top.
Pace, Pace, Pace. First half against Liverpool we were playing fast and getting chances. When we are progressive we are at least getting good chances. It seems like the strategy is to go into this super slow snails pace of control that just lets the defence get set, the two on one against the wingers and we bat it around the edges.
But as the other posters said, they need to score. We take our chances and we have 6 or 9 more points and are still in the FA. Wright’s comment was that we need a killer and it is true. We don’t have that and the change in strategy means we get shut down.
Last year we could spread the ball around because we were faster, Partey and Granit had a lot to do with that. Now we are back to the greatest back-passing team on the planet. With this slow pace a killer is essential.
Sadly, I don’t think we can afford a killer in January. Maybe if Eddie and Ramsdale were sold it would get us enough but I don’t know. I am not sure who else has much value that we would part with…
IMO the problem is more than just “scoring boots,” it is also tactics.
Our slow build up lets defenses set and organize, then double team our wingers, and we are stuck passing sideways and backwards.
Bringing in a striker and midfielder won’t matter much if we continue to rinse and repeat the same tactics.
It is more than just creativity from the players, but creativity from our manager as well.
👍Durand. the difference in the speed of passing, running into space and build up play is “chalk and cheese” between last season and this.