This is not how Arsene Wenger would’ve wanted it to end
When the Frenchman announced that he would be leaving at the end of the current campaign, one would have been forgiven for thinking that the Arsenal players would rally around him and each other, before finishing the season on a high.
Unfortunately that hasn’t happened, and Wenger’s final season at the Gunners looks set to wander to a close like an inebriated person just inching their way home, any way, any how.
The run-in to the season has also seen Wenger’s side break a truly unwanted record, with Wednesday’s defeat to Leicester City at the King Power stadium seeing them lose seven consecutive top-flight matches for the first time since January 1966.
7 – Arsenal have lost seven consecutive top-flight away matches for the first time since January 1966. Wilting.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) May 9, 2018
That run has included defeats to Leicester, Manchester United, Newcastle, Brighton, Spurs, Swansea and Bournemouth, teams which – bar Manchester United – one can safely assume Arsenal sides of old would’ve been confident beating.
Unfortunately, the clear dissipation of confidence from the squad has meant that rather than beat teams below them in the table, Arsenal have struggled to muster anywhere near the sort of performances necessary to even seal a point.
It also means that if they fail to take three points from Huddersfield Town next weekend, Arsene Wenger will finish his Arsenal reign with eight consecutive away defeats, not the way he will have imagined it ending.
