Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta say the club must address their lack of goals from midfield but admits his current team may not be able to provide what he needs.
Last season, Granit Xhaka, Dani Ceballos, Bukayo Saka, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Emile Smith Rowe, Joe Willock, Lucas Torreira, Matteo Guendouzi, Mesut Ozil and Reiss Nelson managed a grand total of five Premier League goals between them.
Speaking ahead of Thursday’s clash with Rapid Vienna, the boss stated that:
“If you ask, can they [the midfield] do it? There’s a question mark. Have they done it in the past? The answer is no.
“We haven’t had any goals from midfield, it’s not something that has happened this year. It happened in other years and it’s something that has to be addressed.
“To change the quality and characteristics of the players is very, very difficult. Again, it’s necessary.
“Big teams need big players in midfield who score goals. They need central defenders who score goals from set-pieces to add to that. If you start to lose those margins, you start to lose points, you start to be away from the top teams. It’s not [rocket] science.”
