Arsenal: 3 reasons behind the team’s biggest weakness

2. The Players Have to Keep on Winning

Much of the blame falls on the manager to get his players acting and thinking in a certain way, but the obvious drawbacks of having a young and mostly inexperienced team playing together for the first time is that they haven’t won a lot of matches yet.

Had there been one or two youthful additions over the summer entering an already established group familiar with winning then the outlook may have been different. But this is six new arrivals banding together with other young players in what is a team unrecognisable from the one that started the season.

Perhaps they just need to keep winning? The importance of confidence in football, and sport in general, can never be understated, but it can be split into two categories: collective and individual.

Individually some of these young players should be bursting with self-belief: there are international regulars, trophy winners, captains and former captains.

However, as a group this team is still bonding and in looking for ways to explain their panicky, sometimes rash decision making when the game is theirs to be controlled could lead back to their relative inexperience as a collective unit and needing to build that confidence up further.

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