3 things Wenger’s Arsenal must improve ahead of the run in

Defensive resilience

Arsenal have conceded 28 goals in the Premier League this term, which is by no means awful, but it is worse than three of their top six rivals.

And their complete capitulation away at Bayern Munich last week suggests that they still have huge improvements to make over the coming weeks.

Laurent Koscielny is obviously a very capable defender, and it was his injury in the early stages of the second half which brought on the Bayern onslaught, with the back four of Gabriel, Shkodran Mustafi, Hector Bellerin, and Kieran Gibbs unable to defend adequately against the German giants.

Mustafi has made a solid start to life in England, but you wonder whether he is beginning to get found out, whereas there’s clearly an issue at left-back, given that neither Gibbs nor Nacho Monreal have nailed down the place in the last few weeks.

They quite simply have to defend better in the coming weeks, be it against Liverpool next time out, or against Lincoln City in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.