Arsenal suffered a third successive Premier League home defeat on Sunday evening going down 2-1 at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Goals from Pedro Neto and Daniel Podence either side of a Gabriel Magalhaes header sealed a deserved win for the visitors, inflicting more misery on the Gunners and manager Mikel Arteta in the process.
The defeat to Wolves marked a third league defeat in their last five outings, highlighting the pressure that is starting to mount on the Spaniard's shoulders.
Not only are the Gunners struggling for wins, but they are also struggling for goals as well, with the attacking flair within their game seeming to have disappeared. In 13 domestic games this season, including their FA Community Shield triumph over Liveprool, the Gunners have scored just 13 times, including just two goals in their last five matches in the league.
Now, with the pressure continuing to mount on Arteta's shoulders, former Liverpool defender Steve Nicol has suggested that the Gunners' players have "had enough" of the Spaniard's tactics, suggesting that the squad wants to do more than what Arteta is asking of them.
"It could be a little case of what I'm talking about with [Jose] Mourinho," Nicol told ESPN.
"Arteta comes in, all of a sudden the one thing they do have is a spine and a backbone and they're all sitting in a nice, firm defensive unit and they do that for six months.
"Is it maybe that the players have had enough of that and they're looking to take the next step? The other thing is, I don't think this group of players is capable of taking the next step but I'm sure in their heads they all think they're great footballers.
"Instead of chasing around for 90 minutes every Saturday, they think, 'We should be playing football'. But they don't have a good enough squad.
"Arteta did well with what he had, he's added Partey, who is now injured, and Willian but other than that it's pretty much the same mob that Unai Emery had.
"Regardless of what Arteta does, I'm not so sure you can get this team playing at a consistently high level every week. Certainly now and again but not consistently."
