Saw the Orbinho stat about today been the 9th game where Arsenal scored 1 or 0 in the league this season and we've dropped points in 7 of them.

It's hard to look beyond the attack as not being good enough to kill matches and score enough goals to protect us from some of the variance we've fallen foul of.

It will be a terrible outcome to have wasted the chance when City have dipped not too be there to take the title. We need to try and make something from the season in terms of showing tangible progress to bring a winning team under Arteta.

awooga83 annoys me so much that we're not capitalizing on city dropping. They won't do it again anytime soon so we'll have to be perfect and that ain't happening

awooga83 we are not winning the league this season. But there’s other competitions. Patience.

We need to win something this year and need big changes in the way Arteta sets the team up. Playing low margin games is costing us big against inferior teams because it allows so much variance to come into play, bad ref, player mistake, wonder goal etc.

I don't think you will be able to win the league going about it as we are so can Arteta change his approach. I'm not convinced right now so I think there are big questions for what next if we can't land something this year.

We scored tons of goals last year. The so-called 2024 table shows us top in points and 2nd to Liverpool by 3 goals foe the year.

Our biggest issue right now is being able to field preferred lineups even just for a single game

Claudius *we scored tons of goals in some games. We also struggled to score and create in others.

Mirth this is true.
So we can punish teams. We can run up the scoreboard like Liverpool or Barca does on a good day.

Most of our struggles scoring come down to basically either an inability to attack the low block. Or lack of fluidity from squad turnover. We had a lot of squad availability issues yesterday.

awooga83 Liverpool appear to have Salah in the course of contending for best season ever for a PL attacker while about to become a free agent.

I do have to question the mentality when we go a goal up.

Why do we slow the game down so much?

It is costing us and Arteta needs to set it right.

Lol, Arteta is the one setting it up to be that way in the first place.

I know that is why I am saying he is the 1 that needs to change it.

Still don't think we're far off at all. It's frustrating.

The Champions League is winnable and we've got another level to unlock overall with the right signing or two. This window of opportunity isn't open forever but it's not looking like it will close in summer.

Panda

This is also my issue. Arteta's football is monotonous and one paced but I could stomach it in these circumstances if we were at least rock solid defensively and could hold on to a lead. Instead, when we go one up, any semblance of progressive football stops and we invite pressure by 1) needless time wasting and 2) becoming static.

Genuinely, I find corners the most exciting part of our football this season.

Dom
Not sure how much more rock solid we should be. We have the best GA and xGA in the league.

Yeah we've the best defence in the league and tbh I think Liverpool even being close is down to luck. Forrest have been great at the back but won't sustain it.

We have the two best CBs in the world and the best keeper in the league but in half a season we've dropped (I think) 10 points from winning positions. Granted we were cheated out of an extra four points against City and Brighton, but - unlike late last season - we don't play on the front foot when leading. Against Brighton, Liverpool and Chelsea the team went ahead and then let the momentum shift by dropping deep. We're on course to concede more and score fewer goals than last season.