Found these offering a different take on the performance
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/mikel-arteta-arsenal-guardiola-spurs-19414966
this suggests Arteta is trying to establish the same focus in the final 3rd as seen with Pep at MC
https://www.gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2020/12/07/if-maitland-niles-does-not-start-in-midfield-v-burnley-i-will-weep-the-team-thats-not-there-yet/
"For what it’s worth, this is what I saw.
I saw the team at the top of the league showing true respect to the team in 15th. It was more than a clever Mourinho strategy. They were worried and had to play with full focus to beat us. Ordinarily the team in 1st doesn’t spend an entire 90 minutes on the back foot to the team in 15th.
I saw an Arsenal team that gave everything. I didn’t see a reason to criticize any player on this occasion and I have recently. On other days, but not here. I’d actually rather not go in on Arteta either but as much as I see many positives in what he’s done and is doing, I felt that we were trying to win the game with a team that’s not there yet. Again, it’s hard to criticize when much was the way you want it, but even though many of the crosses were good and the efforts weren’t bad, I didn’t think we were going to score.
Why?
Well…..because our strategy seemed intelligent in one way but based on next season in another. "
