This is true.

Aargh. Horrible miss by Saka.

Impressive performance so far by Gabriel.

Ceballos and Xhaka off.

Leno should have done better on Wolves second goal. Even his biggest fan can see that surely.

I swear John Jensen was a better footballer than Granit Xhaka. He’s been abysmal today and isn’t tracking back and liable to cost us another goal

He should have scored

Massive deflection that he had to save with his feet because he was going the other way, silly talk

Notice I didn’t say who should come on instead.

We could go down to 9 without those two and we wouldn’t be much worse.

Why is Ceballos picking up the ball in the right back position all the time?

Have another look

And in any case, I'm not sure you can point at it for the reasons we're behind. Just get the ball to Saka as early and often as possible, and get Aubameyang near him. The commentator ex Wolves player, *%^@ off, is winding me right up

Where does a central midfield of Xhak/Ceballos/Willock sit in terms of each prem team in the league? I'd say the following teams have a better central midfield than us: Liverpool, City, Chelsea, Spurs, Man U, Everton, Wolves, Leicester, Leeds, Villa, Southampton, West Ham

I didn’t say it’s all his fault we’re behind. But he should have done better for the goal.

We are absolutely *%^@*** rubbish. There are comfortably 6-8 teams better than us in the league at the moment. We need to give Arteta time but boy is he making hard work of our PL form. We are dreadful.

Always look on the bright side of life, as the song goes. At least I haven’t paid £14.95 for this.

Agreed.

We’re not as good as we either think, or perhaps more accurately, hope we are.

The league table doesn’t lie.

Nelson on for Willian

Here comes Nelson. He must be wondering why it took so long. He can’t do any worse than what has been displayed so far (can he?).

If Wolves score again to win 1-3 I think we’ll be 15th, so have five teams below us.

Would rather see us lose having given some of the youngsters a chance to impress and gain experience than waste more money on wasters like Willian

We concentrate our attack in wide areas so much. It is strange because we don't actually cross the ball that much or have a decent target or at least flood the box - so I can't see what the plan to score goals is by playing wide so much? Going wide is the easy option for footballers without good enough technical ability because there is more time and space out wide

When I posted that I was thinking of the entirety of when I’ve supported us since 1963.

I find it very hard from the limited television perspective to work out what our overall game plan is. And this has been true for quite a few games now.

I’m sorry folks this is now a full blown crisis. Arteta needs to get midfielders in on loan in January otherwise mark my words this can plumb any depth. This can go anywhere, do not underestimate how far we can fall. This could get really bad.

We finished 17th in 1976, that was the worst season since I started supporting The Arsenal in 1970

I'm sure plenty of fans want someone to 'take a chance' try to make something happen - the problem with the ability of the players if I don't think they are skillful enough for any risk they take to actually pay off, and the downside is by taking that risk it leaves us vulnerable. We feel like a team who is in constant fear of conceding a goal so daren't try anything too flashy or risky to score a goal. So we're in this constant flux of dullness and calamity

But not another Willian type looking for easy money to pay for steak tasting trips to Dubai

Yeah. Like in next weekend’s league game you mean?

I want to say you're overreacting but.... this looks bad.

I'm sure there will be plenty of fans on line calling for Özil. But really, Özil would be on the total periphery of this game. Wolves midfield and defence would totally bully him

Thankfully/Hopefully there really are 3 teams worse than us in this league

Thanks.

I’ve been trying to forget about that one.

He'd be worth a pop.

If you look through the squad and try to imagine what a good Arsenal side in the future looks like and you're only really taking a handful of players to build around. Gabriel, Partey, Saka.

There are others like Martinelli - we've seen very little of him really. Tierney I like but he's been 2nd best against a lot of the best wingers in the league. Saliba we hope, but all that hope is based on his price tag, if he was signed for £2m none of us would be banking on him for the future. Leno is ok but not in the top 5 GKs in the league.

Beyond that we are massively struggling

Xhaka highlight reel from today’s game

https://twitter.com/kylevg94/status/133 ... 66627?s=21

https://twitter.com/paulwynne100/status ... 95238?s=21

Arteta came in and wanted to sort the defence out. I could see the logic in that. But we lack energy further up the pitch. I still think we’d be better off with Guendouzi because energy in midfield is one of the things he does provide.

Xhaka off Lacazette on

It's like the team has a collective psyche and its just cracked over the beginning of this season, there was a vulnerability which is likely projected by Arteta as a novice. It turned for me on the Leicester game. Oh great here comes Lacazette, so ceballos on his own in there?

Sigh. Great chance for Aubameyang.