Saying Mikel Arteta has faced a fair amount of criticism during his near three-year tenure as Arsenal manager, would be an understatement. Several strings of bad results along with questionable recruitment decisions, saw the Spaniard come under significant scrutiny, but his project has reached a very important stage.
Arsenal sit top of the Premier League table and have resided there for much of the 2022/23 season securing 11 wins out of a possible 13 along with qualifying top of their Europa League group, bypassing the knockout play-off round and heading straight into the last-16.
Back to back eighth place finishes in his first two seasons and a monumental collapse at the end of the last campaign where Arsenal finished fifth, after being pipped to the final Champions League spot by north London rivals Spurs.
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