Arsenal winless in seven Premier League video games however Boxing Day report is spectacular forward of Chelsea fixture

Arsenal’s subsequent run of video games might make or break Mikel Arteta’s place as supervisor.

The Gunners are languishing in 15th place within the Premier League desk having misplaced 5 of their final seven matches.

They have been additionally dumped out of the Carabao Cup because of a 4-1 quarter-final thrashing at residence to Man City on Tuesday.

Up subsequent is a difficult Boxing Day conflict with Chelsea, which is stay on talkSPORT at 5.30pm and that is adopted by potential relegation six-pointers with Brighton and West Brom.

Regardless of Arsenal’s dire type, Arteta can be inspired by his aspect’s spectacular residence type on Boxing Day.

The Gunners haven’t misplaced any of their final 12 Boxing Day residence video games since dropping 2-Zero to Nottingham Forest in 1987.

Their prolonged unbeaten run additionally features a 2-1 victory over Chelsea in 2001.

Chelsea, although, have misplaced simply two of their final 17 Premier League conferences towards their London rivals (W9 D6), however each of these defeats got here on the Emirates (0-Three in September 2016, 0-2 in January 2019).

Arsenal legend Martin Keown has informed talkSPORT his former membership are in ‘free fall’.

“Individuals are calling for Emile Smith Rowe and all these children, however you’ll be able to’t simply throw them into this example,” he stated.

“A few of the guys are usually not getting alternatives early sufficient, then impulsively we put [Alex] Runarsson into the crew [against Man City] when he’s not prepared.

“That has to return all the way down to the supervisor. You actually can’t get something incorrect any more in, with the January switch window arising, there might be no extra errors.

“They paid £25million for William Saliba and he doesn’t have a squad quantity, Nicolas Pepe is questioning round like he’s not , Willian is on vacation.

“It’s a must to choose senior gamers you’ll be able to depend upon and bolt younger children onto that, with gamers they’ll choose up the best habits.

“For the time being, the membership feels prefer it’s in free fall.”