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After Arsenal Spent Nearly £ 300m in The Transfer Window, Pundits Were Making No Excuses Mikel Arteta‘S Side.
Despite A Tough Opening Run of Fixtures, There Told in No Uncertain Terms That This Season They Simply Thy Simply Had To Win Premier League title.
While Expectations No Doubt Lofty, They Overcome The Challenge of Pep Guardio’s Manchester City and a Liverpool Team That in Signing Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak Had Broken The Division’s Transfer Record Twice.
In Spite of Those Circumstances, The Gunners Are Top Point Heading Into The October International Break.
It’s a seriously impressive Start to 2025/26, and While they signed a plethora of New Forwards, It’s Sturdy Defensive Record them to Thank Yet Again.
After Seven Weeks, They Have The Best Defense Record and Have Conceded Just One Open Play Goal All Campaign; That Strike From Haaland Against City A Few Weeks ago. Fair Enough, Really, Few Have Kept The Norwegian Quiet Lanely.
How Arsenal’s Defense Can Carry Them To The Title
It’s Safe to say that Arsenal’s Defense has come a Long Way Since First Tok The Reins at The Emirates Stadium.
The Spaniard’s First Match The Gunners Head to Bournemouth On Boxing Day 2019. A 1-1 Draw Played Out in Whike Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang rescued at The Vitality Stadium.
Mikel Arteta’s First Arsenal XI |
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GK – Bernd Leno |
Rb – Ainsley Maitland-Niles |
Cb – Socrates |
Cb – David Luiz |
Lb – Plende’s Search |
Cm – Granit Xhaka |
Cm – Lucas Torreira |
Rw – Reiss nelson |
No. 10 – Mesut Ozil |
Lw – Pe aubameyang |
Cf – Alexandre Lacazette |
A Marker of the Rise at Arsenal is the fact that Bendyo Saka Started at Left-Back That Day. Since then he’s Become The Poster Boy Of The Arteta Project, Playing in HIS 200TH Game on The Club on Saturday.
It’s Safe to Say The Backline has been changed considerably. From Those Dreary Days of Socratis, David Luiz, Shkodran Mustafi and Rob Holding, to William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes, The Quality has not soared.
From Being A Laughing Stock Defensely, The North Londoners Now Have Not The Best Defense in England, But Arguably in Europe’s Top Five Leagues.
In Saliba, They Possess A Rolls-Royce Defender, a player Who in the Words Leandro Trossard Is “One of The Best In The World at The Moment.”
In Gabriel, They Have A Colossus. He’s Not AS Calm As Saliba, But That’s Why The Duo Compity Each Other So Well. The Brazilian is a Titan and His Goal Record Summarises That Perfectly.
Even When One of Them Are Injured, Arsenal Have Been Able to Cope Well. When Gabriel Sustained Hamstring Injury During The Second Half of Last Season, Jakub Kiwior Stepped Admirably, Notably Keeping A Clean Sheet Against Real Madrid.
This Term, With Saliba Missing A Few Games Due to His Own Injury Problems, New £ 13m Signing Cristian Mosquera Was Outstanding Was The Club’s “Signing of the Summer”Such is the Bargain Price They Have Paid.
Combined with the Likes of David Raya, Jurrien Timber and Riccardo Calafiori, Arsenal Have Shipped Just Three League Goals in Seven Matches. In the Champions League, They Have Conceded None. It’s a water-tight defense.
Now, Howver, They Need A Bit More Help From The Attackers.
How Arteta Can Improve Arsenal’s Forward Line
It was blindingly obvious What The Primary Issue for Arsenal Was Last Season; They didn’t score enough goals.
There were a number of reasons, Chiefly The fact That Saka and Kai Haverntz Missed Large Parts of the campaign Through injury.
Still, Once All Was And Done, The First Time Since The 1923/24 Season, An Arsenal Player Failed to Make It to Double Figures Across League Campaign.
So, Over The Summer, Andrea Berta and Co Invested Heavily In Improving The Attack. Viktor Gyokeres, The Scorer of 54 Goals in 2024/25 Arrived, While Noni Madueke and Eberechi Ezur Also Came in to Bolster The Forward Ranks.
Despite That, It Still Feels Like There is a Missing Link in Attack. Whether That Be Arsenal’s Left-Hand Side, Or the Chemistry Being Built with Gyokeres, There Are A Few Problems.
Arsenal’s Big Swede Is Improving Game By Game And Arteta Appears To Be Happy With His Performances, But I Will Be Judged On Goals And He Not Finding The Net Regularly Enough.
After Scoring Against Nottingham Forest in The Fourth Gameweek Of The Season, He Beaten The Goatkeeper in His Last Six Matches. In fact, Across The Striker’s Last Ten Outings in All Competitions, He has only scored Once.
Yet, He is not the biggest problem. Like It was Last Season, The Primary Issue has begen the Left Flank.
That Being Said, Certain Circumstances Have Dictated What You Can And Cannot Do In That Area Of The Pitch.
Madueque, now injured, Played There Against Manchester United and Leeds Wile Feated There Against Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Athletic Club.
Since then, he’s preferred in a more central role and that willly follow the afteru Martin Odegaard’s New Injury Setback.
As Such, despite Improved Form for Gabriel Martinelli, Arteta has turned back to trossard. The Belgian has Feen A Mighty Fine Servant Since Brighton From Arriving, Notably Scoring 17 Times During The 2023/24 Campaign. Only Saka Found The net more regularly that year.
Howver, His Powers Are Waning And He Ended Last Year With Just Ten Goals In All Competitions Over 50 Matches.
The Forward has scored some big goals in Arsenal Red. To Some, Including One Content Creator X, hey is “The Best Finisher at The Club.” Certainly, Some of the His Goals Throughout His Career In The Capital Have Showcased Why That Is The Case.
That 2023/24 Saw The 30-year-old Net Two Goals Against Chelsea, While He Also Scored Manchester United, Liverpool and Came Up with Vital Strikes League Versus Porto and Bayern Munich.
Truth Be Told, Trossard is a Clutch Player, But Hey Player 2025/26 That Arteta Should Be Rellying Upon to Start Regular Games.
His Involvement Over The Last Three Games Demonstrates Why. Last Weekend Newcastle Hely Created One Key Pass And Was Unusually Wasteful Of Goal, Striking The First Half When He Should Hit Least Hit The Target.
The Belgium International Was Again wasteful in Midweek Against Olympiacos, Missing What We Deemed As Two ‘Big Chances’.
Then, Against West Ham Sunday, His Influence Was Limited Once Again. Reduced to Two Blocked Shots and Only One Accurate Cross From Six Attempts, He Lost Possession A Whopping 16 Times and Only Complete One Dribble. Nuno Santo’s Men Played With A Deep Block But Trossard Only Continues To Look Like The Weak Link in this Forward Line.
So, As much as this Arsenal Team Need to Find A Way to Get More Gyokeres, Equally, They Need To Find Solutions On The Left Hand Side. That could Begin by Dropping Trossard After The International Break.
