Arsenal have lost four home league games in a row for the first time since all the way back in December 1959.
That’s a staggering 61 years ago, with this Gunners side rapidly falling apart under Mikel Arteta this season as the manager’s future is now surely in major doubt.
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Arsenal have been absolutely woeful so far this term, with the north Londoners sitting in 15th place in the Premier League, having lost seven of their first twelve fixtures.
Arteta’s side are now a great deal closer to the relegation zone than to the top four, and it’s on the back of a particularly bad run of form at home.
See below for this quite shocking stat from Opta, which sums up quite how bad things are for the club…
4 – Arsenal have lost each of their last four Premier League home games, their worst top-flight run on home soil since December 1959, a sequence which also included defeat to Burnley. Lonely. #ARSBUR pic.twitter.com/kOmUXBeY9Z
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 13, 2020
The 1-0 home defeat to Burnley follows a run of defeats against Leicester City, Aston Villa and Wolves at the Emirates Stadium, with Arteta’s side scoring just one goal in that run and conceding seven.
Here are Arsenal’s full results at home in the Premier League so far this season…
Arsenal 2-1 West Ham
Arsenal 2-1 Sheffield United
Arsenal 0-1 Leicester
Arsenal 0-3 Aston Villa
Arsenal 1-2 Wolves
Arsenal 0-1 Burnley
This stat below is also damning on Arteta’s side, with this team struggling for goals in a way not seen at Arsenal since the early 80s…
10 – Arsenal’s tally of 10 goals after 12 Premier League games is their lowest at this stage of a top-flight season since 1981-82 (8 goals). Nonsensical. #ARSBUR pic.twitter.com/5C8FOYwr81
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 13, 2020
Gunners .i hate arsenal bcos of arteta.he would soon take them to relegation zoom .sack him now or arsenal would just b a history
Sack Arteta now so that the Arsenal team can move forward.