Arsenal suffered a 1-0 defeat in opposition to Newcastle United within the Premier League within the early kick off on Saturday.
It was one other damaging outcome for Mikel Arteta’s group, who’ve now been crushed by Bournemouth and Newcastle within the league, whereas in addition they misplaced factors in opposition to Liverpool on the Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners are going via a mini disaster in the mean time and they’re seven factors behind Liverpool within the league now.
They’re lacking some key gamers with health points, together with captain Martin Odegaard and defender Riccardo Calafiori however their troubles this season aren’t solely due to these lacking gamers but in addition as a result of they’ve struggled to create sufficient probabilities.
They over depend on Bukayo Saka and his creativity and when the opponents handle to nullify the menace from the Arsenal right-wing, the Gunners look fully out of concepts, which was the case in opposition to the Magpies at St James’ Park.
Saka has a message for his Arsenal teammates and he posted that on his Instagram account.
He shared the rating line of the defeat in opposition to Newcastle and posted the message:
“We stick collectively.”
Arsenal star Bukayo Saka’s message to his teammates.
Image by way of: Instagram
The Gunners know that they’re presently struggling and the likes of Liverpool and Manchester Metropolis have each managed to open up a lead on Mikel Arteta’s aspect.
With robust fixtures developing within the Champions League and the Premier League, journeys away to Inter Milan and Chelsea to be exact, Arteta would wish his group to be at their greatest and grind leads to the robust matches. The Arsenal supervisor confirmed assist for his gamers within the submit match interview, backing his attacking choices.
Arsenal want constructive outcomes to remain within the title race
Newcastle, however, had been 5 video games with no win earlier than dealing with the Gunners however a primary half purpose from Alexander Isak gave Eddie Howe a a lot wanted win and relieved some strain on him.
The following few weeks might resolve the course of the season for Arsenal and whether or not they’ll problem for the league title for a 3rd straight season.
They want enhancements in all of the positions however most significantly, they want creativity from the center of the park and that’s one thing solely Odegaard might present of their group.