Arsenal’s title charge has faulted recently with their lead going from 7 points to Man city to 2 points. They are few reasons why this happened.
This has been due to Arsenals best centre back getting injured in the middle of November and not expected to be back to 2026. Arsenal do have 2 very capable centre back to replace him in the 2 new signings of Pierro Hincapie and Christian Mosquera however, shortly after Gabriel’s injury Mosquera also got injured for a similar amount of time.
Even with Hincapie playing we have struggled to match the physicality that Gabriel gives us especially at set pieces which we have used to get us out of difficult matches. If you look at the Villa match, which we lost 2-1, it was a very tight game but we were too open and couldn’t control it in the way we would normally do.
I talked to Noah (19) about the current situation for Arsenal “The midfield is struggling at the moment, in the last 20 minutes against villa we had no legs in the midfield” Arsenal have been too reliant on Rice and Zumbimendi and not trusting Norgard who is more physical and could of helped us at the end vs Villa.
If you watch Arsenal’s previous match’s the performances have been nowhere near the level, you can expect from this Arsenal side. The last very good performance was the Tottenham match on the 23rd of November, so Arsenal have had a few performances not up the standard with the Wolves games being the worst where they played way below the level you would expect.
To get back on track Arsenal need to get their defensive standard back especially after the Wolves game after Areta said “The defensive levels have been unacceptable today”. In recent season’s Arsenal’s success have been built on a strong defensive platform which Arsenal need to get back to win the league.