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(Reuters) – Arsenal’s exit from the League Cup to Manchester City on Tuesday has left the Premier League club in dire straits ahead of a festive schedule that will define the season, coach Mikel Arteta said.
Arsenal have lost five of their last seven Premier League games and are 15th with 14 points, their worst start to the season since 1974-75.
Their problems escalated after a 4-1 League Cup loss to reigning champions City, which knocked them out of the competition, increasing the pressure on Spain’s Arteta, who took over the club last month. December.
Arsenal face Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday before games against Brighton & Hove Albion and West Bromwich Albion in quick succession. They also play Newcastle United in the FA Cup on January 9.
“We have to turn it around, there is no question,” Arteta told Sky Sports. “If we don’t, we are in big trouble, so this is the moment that is going to decide our season.”
“We have the tools to turn things around because I see how hard the players are trying and what they are trying to do, but right now a lot of strange things are happening in every game and that makes things really difficult.”
Arteta will hope to bolster his beleaguered squad in the January transfer window.
“We are looking for options that we have, players that come and go,” he said. “It’s a really tough window on the pandemic and the way football is at the moment.”
(Reporting by Arvind Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Michael Perry)
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