Gary Neville has spotted something worrying about Arsenal’s players during games

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Arsenal are in dire straits at present, sitting just four points above the bottom three in a lowly 15th place in the Premier League table.

Mikel Arteta’s charges have lost eight of their 14 league games so far, and haven’t won a league game since 1 November, when they ran out 1-0 winners at Manchester United.

Since then, the Gunners have lost to Aston Villa, Wolves, Spurs, Burnley and Everton, and drawn with Leeds and Southampton in the league.

Creativity is proving a big issue for Arsenal, who are failing to fashion enough chances from open play, let alone scoring them, cue a mere 12 goals scored in the top flight.

Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville believes the Gunners players look bored and methodical, and claims the first step to recovery should be ensuring the players start to love their football again.

“I think Mikel Arteta has to do one thing in the next few weeks,” he said on the Gary Neville podcast, via Sky Sports.

“Results may not come, performances may not come, but he’s got to make those Arsenal players look like they are enjoying themselves. At the moment, they don’t look like they are enjoying themselves.

“On Saturday they looked like a bunch of players struggling and toiling with how they’d been asked to play, maybe they didn’t believe in the system, or maybe they don’t believe the players next to them are good enough. Something is not right.

“I think Arsenal fans, and most football fans, are the same. They won’t accept being bored. To me, the Arsenal players look bored, and the football they’re producing looks like a real struggle.”

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For a team like Arsenal to be struggling as much as they are is indeed concerning, and what Neville has spotted from the Gunners players is worrying.

It’s safe to say that expectations at the Emirates Stadium have tumbled this season, with the main focus now simply to fix whatever is broken and look to climb up the table.