Will a two-day training trip to Dubai fix Arsenal’s problems like last season?

Strangely enough, towards the end of last year, Arsenal went through an awful patch which saw our lead at the top of the EPL table get severely reduced. First of all we drew with Liverpool, which was swiftly followed by defeats to West Ham and Fulham, and was immediately followed by our home defeat to Liverpool in our first FA Cup game of the season.

The Gunners obviously needed to do something and the solution found by Arteta was to take the squad over to Dubai for a week’s warm-weather training in the sun. They came back fully refreshed and set off on a seven-game winning run that put us firmly back in the tight race for the title.

This was recalled yesterday when the media asked Arteta if our current run (losing to Bournemouth and Newcastle with that Liverpool draw in between) was a similar situation to last year and could he turn it around again. He replied: “The results probably were very similar, but the context is very different, because you tend to forget why you lost a full game against Bournemouth, or what happened what we didn’t win against Liverpool or the amount of situations we have had to go through.

“It does not matter, in the end we cannot go to Dubai for a week now like we did last time, we can go to Dubai still for two days – if that’s the solution we’ll go forward and backwards! The team is doing 10 times more better things than we used to do at that period, that’s the positive thing, but for all this to be clear and relevant you have to win, especially to answer certain questions.”

So, we have to beat Chelsea, but that is far from certain in our current form, but it is good to know that Arteta is looking for a similar solution to last season, but really, will just two days in Dubai be enough to get the squad back on track?

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