With just 13 points from Arsenal's opening 11 games, a disappointing start to the season is threatening to become a full-blown crisis.
Defeat to Tottenham in the North London derby was the Gunners' sixth of a sobering early fixture schedule. Marooned in the bottom half, with just 11 goals scored, Mikel Arteta is facing ever increasing pressure to quickly arrest the slump that has set in so rapidly within his squad.
No side outside the bottom three have scored fewer than Arsenal and ahead of a tricky run of fixtures, their season could be effectively over before the festive fixture schedule is even completed.
Ahead of facing Burnley in the Premier League, Mirror Sport looks at the issues Arteta must quickly solve in order to save the
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