After a dreamy start to the season and a streak of seven undefeated games in the Premier League and two more in the Champions League, Arsenal are in crisis. The Gunners are winless in the last three matches in the domestic championship, causing them to fall in fifth spot, seven points behind the leaders Liverpool. Finally, the first defeat in the UCL followed, as Mikel Arteta’s team lost to Inter in Milan 1-0 on Wednesday.However, the defeat to the Nerazzurri revealed another worrying fact – Arsenal are winless in the last five Champions League away games, equaling the negative record from 2005. This appalling streak began in the last round of the 2023/2024 group stage when the Gunners drew against PSV in Eindhoven, but considering that they had already secured the group’s top spot, it did not harm them much.🚨| Arsenal’s away woes: The Gunners are without a win in their last five UEFA Champions League away games, their longest winless run since February 2005. #Arsenal #UCL pic.twitter.com/D0X7sxcXuC— Beta Sport. (@Beta_Sport_) November 7, 2024 Two months later, Arsenal fell in Porto 1-0 in the Round of 16 first leg. However, the equal victory at Emirates sent the tie to the penalties in which the Premier League side triumphed. Yet, in the quarter-finals, there was no help. At Emirates, the Gunners drew 2-2 against Bayern, only to be eliminated by a 1-0 defeat in Munich.The negative series continued this season with a goalless draw in Bergamo against Atalanta and Wednesday’s defeat in Milan, which completed the five-match streak. The fact that Arsenal’s last away win in the Champions League came on December 6, 2016, against Basel 4-1 is completely mind-blowing! Still, that was the Gunners’ ultimate UCL season before a five-season-long absence from the elite competition.Huge pay rise and more power – Edu joins Marinakis’ empireWhat’s certain is that Arteta will have to figure out what is going on with his team away from Emirates and why Arsenal failed to win even some matches in which they deserved to triumph because the conclusion is simple – you cannot expect results if you cannot “deliver” away from home. In the next UCL round, on November 26, the Gunners will travel to Lisbon to face Sporting, and we’ve seen what Ruben Amorim’s crew did to Man City. Truthfully, the Portuguese manager will already be at Old Trafford, but still, a threat to Arsenal is real.##NAJAVA_MECA_8485570##
