Zero points. Zero goals. This wasn’t the start to the season Mikel Arteta had envisaged.
But there are many mitigating factors for Arsenal’s poor start to the season; some out of Arteta’s control, some he may have been able to prevent.
Here Sportsmail looks at why the Gunners aren’t firing and what can be done to resolve their worrying plight.
Mikel Arteta's Arsenal have endured their worst ever start to an English top-flight campaign
Covid chaos
Arsenal were without vital front pairing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette for their Premier League curtain-raiser against Brentford because they had contracted Covid.