Mikel Arteta Reveals ‘Worst Performance Of The Season’

Arsenal suffered their second successive league defeat as they stumbled to a 2-1 loss away at Fulham which coach Mikel Arteta dubbed as the worst performance of the season.

GWG.ng reports that the defeat sent the former league leaders to 4th place.

The visitors made the perfect start in response to their midweek defeat to West Ham as Bernd Leno could only parry Gabriel Martinelli’s shot into the path of Bukayo Saka, who tapped home from close range to give the Gunners the lead in the fifth minute. However, Fulham took the game to Arsenal and responded, ending a run of three Premier League games without a goal as Raul Jimenez converted Tom Cairney’s cross to bring the hosts level.

It was another extremely difficult afternoon for Arsenal, who failed to muster a shot on target in the second half. It was described as their “worst of the season” by Arteta and they could do nothing to halt Fulham’s momentum as Bobby De Cordova-Reid fired home the winner in the 59th minute to make it a happy end of year for Marco Silva’s side. The win sees Fulham, who end a run of three straight defeats without scoring a goal, move up to 13th in the table.

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta expressed his frustration after a lackluster performance from his side;

“Really tough day. A sad day. Three days ago [2-0 defeat by West Ham] we played a game we lost that we completely meant to win it, today was our worst game of the season. The pace, the purpose we have in attack, defensively we were second best, we could not dominate and had issues because of that. This was our worst performance of the season,” Mikel Arteta said of the Arsenal loss.

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