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Arsenal fans, we’re a funny bunch. We lost to West Ham and all I see online is people looking for every single stat that marries to the idea that we’re not good enough this season and Arteta has it wrong with his squad.
We’re 18 points worse off than we were last season.
Our non-penalty goals sit below Forest.
The dominance against West Ham, was, in fact, an illusion.
Don’t talk to me about elite mentality of our players if you can’t look at Arsenal sitting two points off the top of the league in December and be slightly confident in our ability to improve from now until the end of the season.
We banged the first half of last season and we faded. We haven’t banged this season and we’re 2nd. We added a new left-side 8, a new keeper, and a new 6. We’ve wrestled with injuries all season. Yet there’s not a single game you could tell me we deserved to lose.
Every time people write this Arsenal side off, they go one better.
The same folk claiming we’re in dire trouble were the folk who said missing out on top 4 to Conte’s Spurs was the end, that not signing Vlahovic was a death knell, and they probably spent the first chunk of this season claiming Kai was the worst signing in our history.
There’s too much of a market for claiming the Arsenal project ain’t right. People are far too quick to tell you 40 points halfway through the season isn’t good enough. As fans, we spend too much time worrying a...