To be honest we have 18 goals and 11 big chances, it means that we have scored goals off penalties and deflections and have been significantly luckier. This is not sustainable…. If I was Arteta I would be worried that we are lacking firepower in the striker department and our reliable creative players aren’t delivering as they used to. Odegaard and Saka haven’t been the force they were last season. In fact our players aren’t in top 10 in goals scored and assists.
Defensively we are solid now… but come January transfer season, he needs to add some power to the frontline.
This may sound unpopular and I am no way shitting on the manager or the team, just a stat that I am trying to wrap my head around…. Happy to be change my mind.
Y’all need to relax. We haven’t even lost a game yet.We’re in 3rd by a 2 point margin. We’ve been disrupted by injury far more this season than we were up until the end of last season, our best attacking threats have all been in and out with injury, we have not been playing to our highest level, and we’re still finding ways to win games.
We just held man city to almost nothing offensively. Chelsea needed a suspect penalty and a fluke to get a draw against us even when we played pretty poorly by our standards.
And I know someone’s gonna say “but we’re allowed to criticize!! Reee” yes you are, but if you think we’re gonna be smacking everyone four nil and playing great football every week you’re completely delusional. So maybe hold your criticism for if we actually collapse, not have one average game (where, I’ll say again, we still got a point).