Mikel Arteta recorded his fiftieth Premier League win as a supervisor as Arsenal beat Crystal Palace in Friday evening’s Premier League opener and is now the second quickest Gunners boss to achieve half a century of prime flight victories.
Arteta has taken 98 league video games to get so far, with solely Arsene Wenger in a position to higher that – the Arsenal icon racked up 50 league wins marginally quicker in 94 video games.
It speaks volumes in regards to the job Arteta has finished and continues to do for Arsenal. The Spaniard was tasked with primarily ripping issues up and beginning once more after the considerably scattergraph tenure of predecessor Unai Emery, who had himself inherited a troublesome scenario from the retiring Wenger.
Wenger confronted an identical state of affairs when he first arrived in north London within the autumn of 1996 and rapidly set about revolutionising the membership in additional methods than merely on the pitch. Within two years, Arsenal had been celebrating a Premier League and FA Cup double.
Arteta has a a lot harder problem on his palms to attain one thing like that so fast given the immense high quality of Manchester City and Liverpool, however his report in comparison with Wenger’s is a transparent indicator that his squad is on course.
It can also be price noting that since Arteta’s first sport in (*50*) 2019, solely Pep Guardiola (70) and Jurgen Klopp (64) have really received greater than his 50 Premier League video games.
As for 12 months on 12 months progress, Arsenal are already in higher form than they had been this time final 12 months after they misplaced to Brentford and went on to have their worst begin to a season for the reason that Nineteen Fifties.
A 12 months extra skilled, extra in tune with the supervisor’s philosophy and usually higher ready, Arteta’s Arsenal reveals the type of resilience in opposition to Crystal Palace that hasn’t all the time been there over the 10-15 years – even in the course of the later Wenger years. That was particularly so when the house facet turned up the stress within the second half and the Selhurst Park crowd bought louder.
At 40, Arteta remains to be a younger supervisor and there’s a feeling that this venture is just actually simply getting began.
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