One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies

For Arsenal, is this season over? Strictly speaking, if the team wants to keep the second place in the league, then the last three rounds of the league will need to win two games. After all, the team is ahead of Manchester City, and Newcastle, Chelsea and even Nottingham are not much different; and if you don’t care about rankings and just want to keep your Champions League seat, it is actually enough to win one game in the last three rounds.

But for Arsenal, who was once full of confidence but eventually lost all four, it seems that the same plot and results are almost repeated year after year.

When everyone's finger was directed at the situation of coach Arteta and captain Odegao after the Champions League, was it wronged them or did everyone find the problem but couldn't solve it?

Arteta has always emphasized that his goal is to keep winning, but in five and a half years, what is the correlation between three trophys with insufficient gold content and winning?

5 years and 4 months, what exactly has Arteta brought to Arsenal?

Number of trophys: 3, 2 community shields, 1 FA Cup;

Previous league rankings: 19/20, 8th (not complete season); 20/21, 8th; 21/22, 5th; 22/23&23/24&24/25, expected to be second place for three consecutive times;

European results: 20/21 Europa League, semi-finals; 22/23 Europa League, 8th finals; 23/24 Champions League, quarter-finals; 24/25 Champions League, semi-finals.

There are also some long-lost situations: Arsenal, who reached the Champions League semi-finals this season, is the team's best European record since the 2008/09 season;

is expected to win the Premier League runner-up for three consecutive seasons, and is also the team's most stable performance since the 2003/04 season. Among them, the total score of 240 league points has been guaranteed in three seasons (it is expected to grow), and it is even lower than Manchester City's 244 points in the same period; the results of losing in 15 games during the same period are the lowest in the Premier League; the total score of 129 points against the top ten league teams in that season is higher than any team.

So no matter how you look at it, Arsenal under Arteta actually presents a phenomenon of stable improvement. Moreover, when it comes to the stability of the league, Arsenal led by Wenger has actually only won two runner-ups in the 14 years since the peak of the 2003/04 season from 2004/05 to 2017/18 season.

Therefore, even if Arsenal accidentally fell to third place this year and after, the average ranking in the past six years can be said to be the best period for Arsenal from the 2004/05 season to this day.

But why has the sound of "attacking" the tower never stopped?

Perhaps the result of Arsenal's eight semi-finals under Arteta can illustrate some problems: With the end of the Champions League semi-finals with Paris, Arsenal only handed out a 2 draw and 6 losses in the semi-finals of the last 8 different games, and what is even more sad is that there are only 2 goals in 8 games!

There is always no one when the goal is needed, and Arteta's issue of selecting the lineup has undoubtedly been criticized. For example, the lack of center striker's shortcomings and excessive trust in Havertz that has been repeatedly mentioned in this season - Arsenal won the FA Cup in the 19/20 season, and one of the important players is the regular center Aubameyang who scored twice in the final. But after leaving the team in the winter window of 222, Arteta's choices for the forward line are Jesus and Havertz - aren't these two? This is not the case. Although it is true that the efficiency is not as high as Aubameyang, the biggest problem is that they are always not there when they are needed!

Arsenal spent a huge amount of money to win Havertz, hoping that he could continue his magic at Chelsea and help the team bring the Premier League and even the Champions League. But unfortunately, it is not that Havertz didn't score goals or was too low in attendance, but that his ability may not be enough to support the team's desire. Although Arteta's eyes are its greatest value and feature, this kind of player who does not even "eat all over the world with one move", even looks less useful than New Zealand's big center Chris Wood in the Premier League.

So, does Arsenal spend less? Since Arteta took office in December 2019, the team has spent 784.2 million euros to recover 222 million euros and its net investment has also reached 560 million euros. But the problem is that Arteta seems to really like to stock up on players in the midfield and backcourt and even goalkeeper positions, but there are only three players in the front line, Jesus, Trosad and Havertz.

So back to the data of the semi-finals, maybe it’s not that Arsenal cannot win the championship, but how should he win the championship when no one can score?

Sky Sports' latest statistics on the Premier League injury record this season, Arsenal has the highest 27 players

Back to the league, in fact, there are more angles to answer Arsenal's championship-free situation - this season's Premier League, statistics from Celestials show that Arsenal's 27 players have the highest injuries (nearly twice that of Liverpool).

The unavailability of high-frequency or multiple injuries may be a accumulation of Arsenal's training and game styles, and perhaps the off-court instability caused by the sports director who left last fall. But it seems that it is not appropriate to blame the management all, because this situation does not happen every year.

Then, Arteta, who has the absolute right to speak for the transfer, can only be the biggest responsible person - if the team always uses Merino as the center and Calafiori, who is not cheap, is always injured, perhaps the transfer fees of these two people (even can be added to Fu'an Jianyang) are accumulated together (up to 95.6 million euros), the team must have found a top striker who can help him in the championship..

As the second highest salary in the Premier League, Arteta is currently the third-longest candidate in European football coaching giant clubs - second only to Simeone and Guardiola. But even if it is not compared to Guardiola, in fact, Arteta's results are a bit unreasonable compared to Simeone's La Liga championship won in the 20/21 season.

What will cause this problem? Does Arteta's stubbornness and idealization coexist? Is the helpless combination of the coach's overly conservative temperament and the lack of team spirit attributes? Or is the imperial captain not strong enough to make up for some of the team’s shortcomings?

If you still apply it to Odegao with the label of "Real Madrid abandoned players", it will definitely be a bit inconsistent. But such titles may also reflect the shortcomings of Odegao's insufficient upper limit

As a player and captain appointed by Arteta Kyung, Odegao has indeed grown up in Arsenal to be a world-class midfielder. Although Odegao's talent is not comparable to that of the previous German player who came to Arsenal from Real Madrid, if you only consider the investment of 37 million euros in this period, it is at least worth it and far from losing.

But in the two rounds of the game with Paris, all the good impressions were broken - there was no forward threat transmission, no active running, confrontation and defense, no captain's appearance!

So, when the game is over, everyone will see Odegao's lonely back and look extremely regretful. But in fact, as early as the 180-minute game, Odegao was always "lonely and lonely" - he could neither connect with the team nor let himself integrate into high-intensity confrontation.

So, can the captain be replaced? In fact, he cannot change the candidates appointed by Arteta himself, but in fact, the outside world does not want such factors that affect the stability of the locker room. Is it OK to sell

? Of course, it is even worse, but perhaps the only solution is to continue to garrison troops in the midfield.

Judging from reports given by multiple media, Arsenal has prepared 200 million euros for signings in the summer window, and the focus of this is naturally the center of No. 9 - Zhekelais? On the left side, it may be Nico Williams, while on the middle side, another Spanish midfielder, Souvementi.

Perhaps with the arrival of the center, Havertz's corresponding retreat can effectively alleviate the shortcomings of Odge's lack of forward ability in key battles, and the measures to increase the Spanish midfield can also be understood as increasing the team's technical thickness and thus forming a joint force with Odge to enhance forward transmission.

In short, Arsenal's problem lies in Arteta and Odegao. But for a manager with an annual salary of £15 million, his flexibility is crucial. After all, if the handsome guy remains unchanged, the team wants to show more improvements and changes, which is nonsense!