It isn’t in query that Mikel Arteta has reworked Arsenal since taking on as supervisor in 2019.
Arteta has acquired Arsenal again into the Champions League after a seven-year absence and led the Gunners to 2 second-placed finishes in a row within the Premier League.
That progress renewed optimism in north London and, after pushing to the ultimate day of the Premier League season within the final marketing campaign, many thought this is able to be the 12 months that Arsenal lastly lifted silverware.
Nonetheless, Arteta has been dealt a variety of blows all through this season with accidents to key gamers resembling Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Ben White.
When any Arsenal participant speaks about profitable trophies in interviews, they are saying that they’re ‘determined’ to win silverware and captain Odegaard used that phrase in his pre-match programme notes in opposition to .
Reaching the semi-final of the Carabao Cup isn’t Arsenal’s primary goal nevertheless it did give them the hope of a visit to Wembley and in addition provides Arteta the prospect to raise a trophy which is what those that criticise his aspect level to.
That feeling of desperation of eager to win a trophy and the frustration of missed probabilities in opposition to , spilled into the Manchester United recreation, as Arsenal missed alternatives and failed to interrupt down a aspect that performed with 10 males for practically an hour.
It’s not at all a season that has utterly derailed. These on the membership would level to Arsenal being on the identical factors within the league as they had been final season.
Nonetheless, two losses back-to-back at dwelling in cup competitions has began to create a sense that it could be one other marketing campaign the place Arsenal miss out on the highest prizes.
