Arsenal, who was once the hegemon of the Premier League, after the departure of Professor Wenger, gradually withdrew from the ranks of the league title, and even the shadow of the four-year crazy demon was invisible to the fans, in order to be able to return the team to the peak, the team management also increased its investment after hiring Arteta as the head coach, hoping to see the small broken factory rise again, but at the beginning of this season, the Gunners under Arteta's rule were sluggish, once hovering in the lower reaches of the standings, and the head coach Ta Shuai also fell into the crisis of the class. However, with the return of the injured, Arsenal's performance has improved significantly, and they have also seen the hope of qualifying for the Top Four at the end of the season, but to achieve this goal, Arsenal need to achieve better results in the second half of the league, after all, they still need to face competition from teams such as Tottenham, Manchester United and West Ham United! In the twenty-third round of the Premier League, Arsenal encountered Burnley at the bottom of the table, the home all three points is the only goal of the Gunners, after the game began, although the Gunners had the advantage in the field, but the forward players did not perform well in seizing the opportunity, especially Lacazette missed an opportunity to empty the goal, and finally Arsenal home 0-0 suffocated deputy squad leader Burnley!
Arsenal, whose overall strength is obviously superior, after the start of the game, in the cheers of the home fans, launched a fierce attack towards Burnley's goal, for the visiting team, trying to save the goal is their biggest appeal in this game, in order to achieve this goal, Burnley also set up a bus in front of the goal, hoping to rely on the advantage of numbers to block the Gunners' attack, from the performance of the first half, Burnley's strategy achieved the expected effect, Arsenal completed 12 shots in the case of 75% of the possession, But only 2 hit the target, and Burnley used set pieces and counter-attacks to create scoring opportunities.
Arsenal's best attacking opportunity in the first half came in the 20th minute, after Smithroe burst into the box on the right, inverted the triangle pass, Odegaard got the ball and stabbed the ball was saved by Burnley goalkeeper, Lacazette's subsequent supplementary shot was also blocked by the defender, Arsenal once again penetrated Burnley's right side in injury time, but Saka's pocket shot grazed the upright out of the bottom line, and neither side broke the deadlock on the field at halftime.
After the start of the second half, Arsenal's broken iron barrel formation is still the main theme of the game, in the 64th minute the Gunners won the right corner, Odo's high and low flat ball passed to the box, SmithRoe kept pulling the ball out of the box, although it penetrated Burnley's defense, but was quickly saved by goalkeeper Pope, in the 67th minute Arsenal left side penetrated Burnley's defense, SmithRo broke through the bottom line and passed back to the follow-up Lacazette, who faced the empty goal of poking the shot deflected out of the upright, the Gunners missed the perfect opportunity again, As time passed, Burnley became more and more confident and eventually took away a valuable 1 point from the road.
After 22 years, Arsenal have played 5 games in all competitions, but have not tasted a single victory, which is not a good signal for them to compete for the top four in the table, and when they can usher in the first victory of the new year has become the most concerned topic for many Gunners fans!