Mikel Arteta has revealed the reason he thinks Arsenal are struggling to win football matches.
The Gunners' last three points came nearly two months ago with a 1-0 victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford, meaning they're winless in their last seven league matches .
That run has seen them drop down the Premier League table dramatically, and after Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Everton, Arsenal now sit 15th with just 14 points from 14 matches.
However, speaking in his press conference ahead of his side's Carabao Cup tie against Manchester City, Mikel Arteta seemed to imply that even though the numbers suggest they should be performing better right now, the luck simply isn't on their side.
"When you talk about the dressing room and the atmosphere at the club, the atmosphere is good, as good as it can be when we are all hurting because results in the Premier League are hurting us," he said.
"Everyone is worried and everybody is suffering because we want much more. We are working to get much more. In the dressing room when you are losing football matches it is difficult because they suffer as well because they care, because they want more, because the confidence level starts to go, but the unity is there.
"Is there 100 per cent unity around the club? It is impossible in any club even when you win because when players are not participating, it is more difficult but when you look at the perspective about how we are losing football matches and how we are where we are, it is pretty incredible.
"Last year we won the game against Everton with a 25 per cent chance of winning, you win 3-2. Last weekend, it was a 67 per cent chance of winning, any Premier League game in history, and a nine per cent chance of losing, and you lose.
"Three per cent against Burnley and you lose, seven per cent against Spurs, and you lose.
"There is something else apart from that it is not just the performance on the pitch, it is something else that needs to go our way and at the moment it doesn't.
"Saying that, it doesn't care and you lose, and the only thing that anyone cares is that you lose a football match and this what he hear."
It seemed as though the Spaniard was referring to the xG levels in Arsenal's defeats to Spurs and Burnley.
This is a very complicated way of looking at football matches, but he was implying that were those games to play out again then the Gunners would have a high percentage chance of winning.
However, in both games Arsenal failed to score. In fact their scoring record in the league this season has been very poor. In 14 matches they have netted just 12 goals, a tally worsened only by Sheffield United, West Brom and Burnley the division's current bottom three.
The Gunners have a welcome break from Premier League action when they host Manchester City in the Carabao Cup quarter final. Arteta's record in cups has been good, winning 16 out of 17 matches.
