Five things Arsenal can take from the depressing defeat to Leicester City

When you lose your third game in a row and concede three goals in each of those losses it is not easy to come up with anything positive, however, I have dug deep, real deep and come up with five things that we can take from the 3-0 hammering inflicted on us by the Foxes.

On the face of it, some of the points are not what you would call classic positives but sometimes a negative can be seen as a positive because it highlights a problem that you can then act upon, well, that would be the hope anyway.

Bernd Leno

Yes, he had a bad game against Wolves but every goalkeeper on the planet has the odd bad game and overall Leno has shown consistency all season long and yesterday against Leicester he showed that he is absolute quality and if it was not for the German it could have been a lot worse.

Mesut Ozil cannot be blamed

Because he did not play and it means we can go a few days without reading how much he gets paid, how he lets us down, how he goes missing, how he is inconsistent, how he ducks out of challenges etc. Anything that gives us a break from that same old crap is positive.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan has to go

Surely his performance today will have convinced Unai Emery that Mkhitaryan must be sold this summer, forget what he earns and forget what we can get for him and focus on his stats today, Shots 0, Shots on target 0, Key passes 0, Aerials won 0, Dribbles 1, Crosses 0, Accurate long balls 0, Through balls 0, not bad for 73 minutes. If Emery does not realise how useless he is now he never will.

Unai Emery has his favourite players and they are no good

How else can you explain the inclusion of Shkodran Mustafi and Alex Iwobi? All I can think of is that Emery has a soft spot for them, they are his favourite players in the team because there is no way their continued selection is justified but wait and see, he will pick them again as sure as night follows day.

This Arsenal squad has no fighting spirit.

Contrast our performance today with that of Watford when they went down to ten men, the difference is on a galactic scale. At no time did any of our players dig deep and show the necessary fighting spirit that teams need when they go down a man, they basically downed tools and accepted that defeat was inevitable.