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.
Have we got going like we’d hoped we would? No. But we’re undefeated, on the same amount of points after 9 games as last season and about to have a run of fairly favourable on paper fixtures.
At the end of the day this squad showed what they’re capable of when they get going last season and still to early to not have faith they can get back to that level.
We get to the doldrums of January and February and we never stopped grinding out results with not great performances then I will start really worrying.