Arsenal are on the ascendancy.
Ever since Unai Emery left and Mikel Arteta joined the club, Arsenal have been given a new lease of life. They have now been praised by their arch rivals Tottenham Hotspur star Peter Crouch.
“At long last, there looked to be some spirit,” he wrote in his Daily Mail column.
“I am not getting carried away and saying they are back — they remain some distance from where they used to be — but I saw flashes of character, togetherness and camaraderie in the way Lacazette was swamped.
“For that, I have to give full credit to Mikel Arteta.
“You think about the situation the new manager walked into last December. The atmosphere was poisonous, there was the infamous falling-out between Granit Xhaka and the crowd and Arsenal looked much more like individuals than a team.
“Such a combination of circumstances would have tested the most experienced manager, so Arteta looked like he was on a hiding to nothing when he walked into that mess.
“The vast majority had misgivings about the characters in the squad he had inherited.
“Few expected them to knuckle down.”
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