In the season when virtually everything had gone right, it was the night when it all looked wrong. Managers rarely call for a reset from a vantage point at the top of the league, but Mikel Arteta did. And if it points to his tendency to be blunt, Arsenal may need to go back further than last week, when they had just chalked up an eighth straight win. To a little further back, however, arguably.
There were reasons to believe a loss had been becoming, though not one as comprehensive as their evisceration in Eindhoven. The last time Arteta had sounded as searingly critical or his side as bad, it was the day Arsenal’s Champions League dream died at Newcastle in May.
