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GOOD NIGHT FROM THE EMIRATES
It has become a familiar sentiment Sunday night for Arsenal fans.
For the fourth straight home game, the Gunners have been beaten in the final game of the weekend to increase the pressure on Mikel Arteta.
After Leicester, Aston Villa and Wolves before them, this time it was Burnley who pitched at the Emirates and left with three points, for the first time since 1974.
A short game in confidence and skill turned into a ridiculous ejection just before the hour mark.
After fouling Dwight McNeil, Granit Xhaka countered the reaction from the Burnley players and retaliated by throwing Ashley Westwood to the ground by the neck.
Then it went from bad to worse. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke his goalscoring duck, but on the wrong side; the Arsenal captain steered Westwood’s corner into his own net when the Gunners conceded on a set piece for the first time this season.
The result takes the Clarets out of the bottom three, and just four points behind their illustrious opponents. If Burnley is in a relegation battle, so are Arsenal.
While Sean Dyche praised his full-time players, Arteta had a bleak figure.
This is the first time since 1959 that the north London club have lost four straight home games, and now it’s the worst start to the season in 45 years.
The Arsenal manager says he will continue to work hard and scratch his head. For how much longer is anyone’s guess.
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