Whenever Arsenal need me, I will help them, former manager Arsene Wenger said at a time when the club was struggling. With what the French Professor said, he is ready to return to the chair where one of his students, Mikel Arteta, is currently sitting.
In fact, FIFA's Director of the Global Football Development Program said that on Saturday (January 2), when Arteta was gradually reducing the pressure on himself. According to the media, the Spanish coach is promoting exactly what he learned from his former teacher: survival skills.
22 years in charge at Arsenal, a few times and especially in the last years, everything was at risk of getting really bad, but Wenger arranged everything.
Recently, after a seven-match winless streak in the Premier League, and instability in the dressing room, things have turned things bad for Arteta. Many fans shouted for the club to find a new coach.
As FA Cup winners last season, the way Arsenal have been performing in the past few months has been a shock to Gunners fans. Their team is not as good as they imagined. And so Arteta was put under the... microscope, so he had to take the highest responsibility, from removing Mesut Ozil to implementing a rigid strategy. The disappointment lasted endlessly. Arsenal are slowly falling below the rankings without stopping...
But it was at that moment that Arteta enjoyed his most emotional week. 3 matches, 9 points, 2 clean sheets and 8 goals. At least during this time, Arteta has had many of his biggest cries closed.
The impressive 3-1 win over Chelsea, 1-0 at Brighton was a solid and latest, 4-0 at West Brom was an explosive. This excellent away performance also included some really impressive goals.
When people are young...
There is a saying When people are young... that is abandoned with the meaning that mistakes that are made can be corrected. And with a little mystery, people can't understand why things are happening.
For Arteta, it is difficult to understand why he made Arsenal increasingly stiff after bringing the flexibility to study from Pep Guardiola. It is difficult to understand why he suddenly became "credited" in the matter of tactical diagrams, ignoring creativity, innovation and improvisation.
But it is understandable that when he was young, Arteta was not afraid!
He is not afraid of pressure, not afraid to change and find a way to fix it. He was not afraid to receive support from leaders, including the most frequent contact person, Sports Director Edu. The trust and support for Arteta publicly (and possibly just a few private conversations) has created a change.
It is also worth mentioning that it is difficult to explain, it is the time of turning point. Not against any weaker opponent, but Chelsea. That derby at the Emirates Stadium on December 27 gathered all the elements for Arsenal and Arteta to believe that they would return to the track.
Alexandre Lacazette, who has scored five goals in his last four games, has talked about the change at Arteta, when he allowed more players to join the attack. With players who have been relieved of their psychological burden and have a fighting spirit, Arsenal are back to the type of people who can do anything.
The new 9 points only took Arsenal to 11th place, but on the upper hand, they were not too far away from the group with a ticket to the European Cup. When Arteta showed his survival skills like his coach, The Gunners looked forward with optimism.
