Are Arsenal out of the Premier League title race? That’s a question most Gooners are pondering.
The Gunners remain winless in four league games. With their last 4 league results being, Bournemouth 2-0 Arsenal, Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool, Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal, Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal.
These results aren’t promising for Arsenal’s title hopes. After 11 games, Arsenal has already dropped 14 points, which is quite disappointing.
They’re now nine points behind Liverpool, who lead the league title, and four points behind Manchester City.
Manchester City has a better chance than Arsenal of catching up to the Reds if they can improve their performance after experiencing a dip in form in recent weeks. Either way, Arsenal must now make a significant comeback to salvage their season.
That said, Arsenal’s title chances are still up for debate. Former Premier League striker Troy Deeney voiced his opinion about the situation the Gunners are in, admitting that Arsenal is in a challenging situation where every game holds significant importance. He believes that Arsenal cannot afford another loss, as it would force them to have to pick wins over Manchester City and Liverpool in the second leg for a chance at league glory.
“I would say they are in a situation where every game is massively important,” Deeney said on Match of the Day 2.
“If they lose one more time, I think they are out of it [the title race] because otherwise they are going to have to beat Liverpool away and [Manchester] City as well.”
After the international break, Arsenal needs to be a changed team. They need to embrace winning as if it is their religion. They need to replicate the run they pulled off after the last winter break. Winning the league was never easy, but our Gunners made it harder.
A massive boost for their resurgence run could be that their creative spark, Martin Odegaard, has returned from injury and that the league fixtures ahead of them are fair compared to these last 11.
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Arsenal must go back to the drawing board, With only three wins in our last nine league matches, that’s hardly championship form.
The gaffer still believes he can get back into the title race, but first we must get greedy and show a little nastier of our personality.
Hampers by injuries to key men and a rash of red cards may well have unsettled the last season runner up.
There is something about the name captain Odegaard, the influential Norwegian started the game against the Blues and provided a sublime pass for the Brazilian goal in an encouraging sign for the gaffer.
But the gaffer must improve his man management quickly, the opposite is true of the Italian Maresca, his tactical prowess and astute man management have offered tremendous hope of a brighter future with his emerging talented outfit.
“…show a little nastier of our personality.” More red cards?
We should start thinking about doing what the European teams do before a UCL match when they rest their players in the league and go wholeheartedly for Europe’s biggest prize. Try to rack up league wins and see if we can make a dent but if Liverpool keeps it up then I think we should look at the cup games very closely
Injuries and suspensions have cost us. Also the players themselves need to actually reject call ups.
Rice, saka know how much they have played in the last 4 years, apart from his broken toe, rice looks jaded . Partey has finally seen the common sense thing to do, decline call ups, because he either got injured away or broke down when he returned.
Timber was better against Chelsea but vs Newcastle he didn’t seem right . White isn’t playing to what we know he can. Merino looked good when he came on the other day and hopefully this can give rice a break when the break is over. Skelly and nwaneri have been used in the correct doses but now it’s time to start using them more as they have shown they are capable. Whatever is happening with zincheno who knows and just like partey did with international football, tomiyasu has to ask himself can his body deal with it also ? Or perhaps this League is to robust for him. Good player but at this moment when he would be playing he is suffering set backs. Obviously there is great pride to play for your country but there is no respect from international managers to players. Odegaard limped off against Brighton, a few days later he suffers a huge injury whilst playing for Norway, carsely went top heavy and starts saka when there was no need to and there are other options. There is no respect from international managers.
But every club gets injuries (Liverpool’s first choice keeper has been/is out for example, along with others) and suspensions are down to the players – Saliba’s “moment of madness” cost Arsenal up to five points. I suspect it’s down more to the quality and strength in depth of the squad and Arteta’s tactics.
Well written helping favour to Arteta I observed. Good idea, why not, and calm the fans.
This is the reality however, this is the true representation of the team.
All the players hoped upon do not have the champion drive and consistency beyond the micromanage of what Arteta told them do on the field, or they all know nothing about football beyond their Academy orientation. I mean, nothing exceptional, very few or nothing to remember or reminisce about. They know the ins of football, but they need to know the in and out, the twist and turn.
I am not a manager, not even a footballer, but my town in Nigeria is one of the place where we have seen the finest football games in History. Since late 1950s big teams and national teams have come to Nigeria, and our World stage fame is admirable. So I know red cards, injuries are part of football, because they are unavoidable, and the rules have made them possible to be well managed.
I am not surprised, I already commented in the summer that it will take miracle for Arteta to win, hsving lost out those immediate past two season, which were his chances, but he was still processing his team. Though, it was clear the League is going to be competitive this season, with changed managers at Liverpool, Chelsea and the long dragged change at United, and you could see already that even the also ran teams are putting on some show ups.
For the first time in two or more years, I watch the live from TV in Nigeria, Chelsea v Arsenal. Good game, but I couldn’t see lots of players, especially midfielders impose their characters on the game. However, Martinelli was as usual, Timbers was impressive, Gabriel was as usual, Raya pleasing. The cameras were not well angled for my liken or my lenses were less perceptive of the motion.
The Edu ‘ s announcement should tell all Arteta can achieve this season is top 4. Though the boys will surprise me if they win a trophy.
The following next 11 games in the PL up to end of January, and I mention January because that when the transfer window close are these:
Home) N.Forest-ManU-Everton-Ipswich-Totten.
Away) W.Ham-Fulham-Palace-Brentford-Brighton-Wolves.
My “computer” tell me that without mayor injuries to our 4 pillars (Saliba, Odegaard, Saka and Havertz) we can win them all; so in January
we can find a couple proper attackers and go to fight for everything.
The arrogance
We won’t win all those games
Schedule and injuries have had an influence our results, but so have tactics and form.
We are too predictable, and need to shake things up a bit. We have depth, so when things are not working Arteta needs to move faster to make changes.
Make changes at halftime, have Saka and Martinelli interchange during matches, perhaps a tweak in formations.
Arteta can benefit from the international break, and use the time to analyze and adapt and get us back to winning ways.