Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal were again flustered by a Sean Dyche side, and this latest headache comes with a spirit-draining price tag.
The Gunners walked into the City Ground with the chance to grow their Premier League table lead to nine thanks to a loss by Man City. Liverpool also dropped points on Saturday, and Arsenal just had to read its lines and beat the 17th-place team on the Premier League table.
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But Arteta’s changed attack couldn’t score against Forest and he had to break the seal on his big-name subs. It got better, but not enough to take the eggs off the scoreboard in a 0-0 draw that inched them seven points clear of City and Aston Villa.
And so Sean Dyche’s first game against Arsenal as Forest boss looked a lot like some previous iterations against Arsenal as Burnley or Everton boss, as Dyche improved his record to 2W-5D-4L against Arteta with the last two of those draws coming as part of six clean sheets.
We’ll share all of Mikel Arteta’s words as soon as he speaks from the City Ground.
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