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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says he is concerned about his team’s problems in front of goal after another timid performance by the team.
The Gunners withstood a second-half attack from Leeds following Nicolas Pepe’s red card to claim a precious point at Elland Road.
However, the result means that Arsenal have failed to score in four of their last five league games and their last goal in open play was Pepe’s winning goal against Sheffield United on 4 October.
Nine goals in total this season is Arsenal’s lowest in a league season at this stage since the 1986-87 season and a far cry from free-goal days with Arsene Wenger.
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And Arteta says that she is very aware of the problems that her side has.
“It worries me, obviously, because we need goals and we need a lot of goals to win football matches and be the best team we want to be, without that it is impossible,” he said.
“It doesn’t matter how good we are defensively. It’s not a lack of attacking players that we have, because we have attacking players on the field all the time, but we need moments when we have to make decisions earlier, better and more.” they have to be more ruthless.
“But it’s the hardest thing in football and sometimes we go through these patches and we have to overcome them and I have to help the players to do it as quickly as possible.”
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Captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was transferred to his favorite center-forward position by Arteta, but could not exert much influence in the match.
However, the Arsenal manager says he is satisfied with what he saw of the forward.
He said: “At times it worked really well. We had a patch in the first half, a 25 minute patch where we were really good, efficient, pushed high, created some really good chances and made it really difficult.” for them.
Then there was a time in the 15 or 20 minutes of the first half where we began to give the ball away, we did not control certain spaces against them and they suffocated us, which they were always going to do. They did it against all the Premier League teams.
“It’s impossible to dominate this team for 90 minutes. And then in the second half, when you expect things to adjust and get better, we go through 10 men and obviously it’s a mountain to climb.”
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