Arsenal’s season so far can be defined by their current goal difference: 0. Going forward, the Gunners have been brilliant at times. Defensively, however, Unai Emery’s men must do better. The newly-installed centre-back partnership of Shkodran Mustafi and summer signing Sokratis looks to lack pace, mobility and an authoritative, organising figure. Emery’s insistence upon having his side play out from the back has meanwhile reduced the veteran goalkeeper Petr Cech to a jibbering, nervous wreck. Right now, solutions for Arsenal appear thin on the ground. Reverting to the three-at-the-back system introduced by Arsene Wenger in his final couple of seasons at the Emirates Stadium would...
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