Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat against Bournemouth on Saturday fully packed the club’s biggest problems in the season in a 45-minute outbreak.
Mikel Aretetas decreasing side took over a lead in the first half by Declan Rice to undo goals from Dean Huijsen and Evanilson. Another advantage of being secured safely Opta.
The nature of Bournemouth’s two strokes was also painfully familiar for the Gunners.
“The key was the sentence in the second half,” Cherries boss Andoni Iraola outlined after the game. “At the end of these narrow games, the difference to the set games was the key to get the three points.”
Arsenal has maximized these differentiations in the last seasons and still has one of the best attackers in the division. However, their attempts to defend dead balls have a lot to be desired.
The Gunners sent 12 SET -PIECE goals this season -just like the city of Ipswich and a tough only from three Premier League clubs. Areta has transformed Arsenal into an suffocating compact block in the open game to ensure that dead ball situations make up 38.7% of all goals that have been received in this term, which is conveniently the highest ratio in the division.
Areta was in a bad mood at the end of the defeat on Saturday. “We should have killed the game and we didn’t make it,” the Spanish boss fumbled. “If you defend your box in two set pieces in the way we did, you are in a large, big, difficulty.”
Arsenal was guilty of giving up over the entire Leads campaign. At the beginning of the season, the Gunners were able to blame these slip -ups early red cards -ten men from the North London outfit had reduced points on Brighton and Manchester City until September.
However, this problem has swollen into a cartoon in the past few weeks. Arsenal has taken the lead in the last five games of the Premier League, but only against Ipswich could she win. This chronic complacency, which was undoubtedly conditioned by Arsenals Run for the semi -finals of the Champions League, gave up nine points last month.
To fix the expenditure for Areta, which is higher than the second before the urge of the next season. The solutions may be a little more difficult to decipher.