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The Gunners’ struggles in the Premier League have continued and both their coach and players are not sure what is going wrong
Mikel Arteta has admitted that Arsenal’s 2-1 loss to Wolves on Sunday was a “really bad result” with the Gunners now 14th in the Premier League after 10 games.
In a game that was overshadowed by a serious blow to the head suffered by Raúl Jiménez, the Lobos took all three points thanks to goals from Pedro Neto and Daniel Podence.
While the Gunners claimed a rare open-play goal through Gabriel in the 30th minute, they managed to make just two shots on target in the 90 minutes despite having 57 percent possession.
Arteta’s team has now won just one of their last six Premier League games, while the Gunners’ current score of 13 points is the lowest after their first 10 games of any league campaign since the 1981 season. -82.
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With pressure starting to mount on the Arsenal manager, he admitted that the club must find a way to turn their luck around and start scoring freely again.
“It’s a really bad result,” Arteta admitted. Sky sports. “We had our moments. We had a great reaction in the second half. The team showed enthusiasm but the goal did not come. There are no excuses, we have to improve.”
Talking to BBC SportArteta added: “They had two shots on goal in the first half and scored twice. The team showed real resilience, unity and faith to try to win in the second half. We created the chances but we didn’t score.
“We need more goals to win football matches. We need to continue supporting the players. All the players pass [tough] periods. We are creating chances but fighting to score goals. That is the difference between winning and losing.
“When you lose games, confidence goes down because they think things can happen again. You need to win after a loss. We’ve been doing this in my time here. This is the first time since we’ve been here. [that they’ve had a losing run]. “
Arsenal midfielder Joe Willock struggled to identify exactly what was wrong at the Emirates, but is determined to see his team recover quickly.
“It’s not a thing we can point to. We’re not flowing right now. We have to figure this out very quickly as a team. We need to perform better. It’s not good enough,” Willock said after the game. .
“It’s nothing we can’t change. We want to recover from this game and stay together and get back to the pace we finished last season.
“I don’t think the incident is the reason the flow stopped. We are not good enough right now. We have to fix it in the group. We are a great team and we want to compete for things. We have to regroup and talk about this tomorrow and recover as soon as possible. “
