Arsenal’s players must train harder and improve their form if they want to redeem themselves in front of their fans (and their selves, of course) after a mixed start of the current Premier League season. With eight matches behind them, Arsenal is on the 7th place of the League standings – out of all their matches they only managed to win one. According to Per Mertesacker, the team needs to improve to realize its potential.

Per Mertesacker – Arsenal Players Must Train Harder

Arsenal’s players must train harder and improve their form if they want to redeem themselves in front of their fans (and their selves, of course) after a mixed start of the current Premier League season. With eight matches behind them, Arsenal is on the 7th place of the League standings – out of all their matches they only managed to win one. According to Per Mertesacker, the team needs to improve to realize its potential.

The defender admitted that, after the difficult start of the 2014-2015 Premier League season, the team’s confidence is not where it should be. Per considers the character and the mentality to be good, but the team to be missing something “football-wise”, like the team’s passing game that is not as efficient as it was in the last year. He things that the team must admit not being at its best, and to start being honest with itself and start training harder for the remainder of the matches.

The player considers the finishing game of the team to be good, but he admits that the Gunners have issues before that. The team has to do better with possession, put much more pressure on the opposing teams, not lose so many balls in the middle of the field and play more in the wide areas.

Arsenal’s confidence was restored a bit after their win in the last minutes against Anderlecht FC at this week’s Champions League match. Both players scoring in the game – Kieran Gibbs and Lukas Podolski – were at their first successful attacks of the season, turning the loss into an unexpected victory. It has become the most beautiful birthday gift the team’s manager, Arsene Wenger could have asked for. Arsenal was struggling to keep the score at 1-0 until the last few minutes, when the nerves have finally kicked in and helped the players turn things around and win 2-1.

At one moment during the game Arsenal had no choice but to throw everyone forward, a bit of a gamble (although not as severe as to visit Casino la vida for the latest casino games), but it worked – a perfect pass by Calum Chambers to Kieran Gibbs resulted in his first goal in 14 months. The goal got Arsenal in the mood, and their mood translated into a perfect collaboration of Gibbs, Sanchez and Podolski, who gave the attack the finishing touch.

Arsenal will once again face Anderlecht in the rematch, in two weeks. Until then they will play against Sunderland this weekend and Burnley on November 1st.