#3 Arsenal lack leaders
Up until around the 50-minute mark, Arsenal fans would have been pretty happy with proceedings. Level at 1-1, Arsenal looked in a pretty comfortable position, but that all changed when captain Laurent Koscielny went off injured.
Kieran Gibbs took the armband, and from that point the Gunners fell apart at the back. They conceded three goals in ten minutes, and were all over the place at the back. A lack of leadership is not a new problem for Arsenal, with many believing that they never properly replaced Patrick Vieira.
There are very few players in the squad with any captaincy experience, and it became clear that when they were 4-1 down there were no natural leaders on the pitch.
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