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Mikel arteta is managing a deep and varied arsenal squad.
Arsenal fc arteta. Granit xhaka receives instructions from mikel arteta during the 3 2 win over everton image. Arsenal may have lost two matches in a week their first premier league defeats of 2020 but new head coach mikel arteta is still on the right track and his post match comments prove it. Of sakas 30 appearances in all competitions for arsenal this season 15 have come as a winger predominantly on the left flank. This is in relation to images emerging via the daily star on saturday night may 16 of him inhaling from balloons and its not the first time this has happened since joining the north london outfit.
As such here are three players that arsenal head coach mikel arteta must lean on more. As the season resumes he can let the competition fly and the team will be all the better for it. The premier league will return in less. Alexandre lacazette appears to be in hot water with arsenal.
When the premier league returns from june 17th the games will come thick and fast. According to the athletic mikel artetas arsenal rank top for the percentage of turnovers ending in a foul this season on 78. Instead he trained with pierre emerick aubameyang reiss nelson and alexandre lacazette a possible indication that arteta views the 18 year old as one of his attacking options. Photo by stuart macfarlanearsenal fc via getty images remove the specifics and it is easy to envisage arteta saying much the same thing to granit xhaka when he arrived in north london.
Of course not all of these fouls will be tactical but the stats do go some way to showing the immediate response of artetas team once they lose the ball commit a foul to stop a potential counter attack.