Arsenal has dropped points in seven of their last 15 Premier League matches and are now confronted with the discouraging task of putting their hope for a first trophy on the Champions League since 2020. In anticipation of them after the last international break of the season, the holders, Real Madrid.
After he had brought Manchester City to the thread in the last two campaigns, Arsenal was expected to have the only real threat for the Pep Guardiola team that marched to a fifth consecutive title.
Arsenal's 2022/23 Title offer staggered in the last part because of important defenses.
The arrivals of Jurrien Timber and Declan Rice the following summer transformed them into the best defensive unity of the competition, which underlines a characteristic of the term of office of Mikel Arteta, despite a new missed title challenge.
Despite the attacking of reinforcements that are seen as a priority for this season, Arsenal's some forward addition Raheem Sterling was on a Deadline daily loan from Chelsea. He still has to score a competition objective for the Gunners and has only one assist.
After three consecutive seasons of progress with their attacking statistics, this campaign has seen a significant decrease.
Incorrectively, injuries have taken their toll because Arsenal's striving for a first league title has faded since 2004.
Only Bukayo Saka has shown a remarkable improvement in his output this season compared to the other attackers who have been at the club since they came forward as the most important challengers of Manchester City.
Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka missed considerable parts of the season – they started 32 league games together last season and 36 in 2022/23.
With only 10 competition, this campaign starts together, it is not unreasonable to suggest that Arsenal might have been much closer to Liverpool if their two important creative forces could be seen more consistent.
Arsenal has kept track of their strong defensive record of last season, but their attacking output is considerably impressed compared to.
Only once in the Premier League history has a team that is completed in second seasons second – Arsenal does this itself between 1998 and 2001.
They claimed the title the following year, and with the right attacking reinforcements this summer, the Gunners will hope that history is ready to repeat themselves.
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