During the course of Arsenal’s recent winning run, a debate has slowly begun to germinate about the team’s performances. With 7 wins on the bounce in all competitions, there is precious little to complain about in terms of the results. Yet performances have been far from convincing. As ever with these things, the debate was insulated inside the Arsenal fan base until the Watford match, but in recent days it has bled into the football mainstream. Arsenal have done little to impress in the unforgiving arena of the eye test and the underlying numbers seem to support the assertion that the team has ridden its luck of late. Unai Emery is still fine tuning his system, so some growing pains...
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