When Arsenal beat Manchester United last month for their first league win at Old Trafford in 14 years, the north London club seemed to have turned a corner after two straight domestic defeats. Mikel Arteta’s side had lost to Manchester City and Leicester before the win over United. Those three points seemed the springboard Arsenal needed to improve their league form. Having won the FA Cup over a pandemic-hit summer, things seemed to fall into place for the former Premier League champions.
Yet, here we are seven weeks later with Arsenal in a full-blown crisis, having managed just two points from their last seven league games. The Gunners—4 wins and 8 losses in 14 games—have managed five points out of a possible 30 from their last 10 Premier League games. How abysmal Arsenal have been in the league can be gauged from their scoring statistics—three goals in the last seven and four from the last 10 games, two of those coming from the penalty spot. A year into his…