Why The Dip In Form?

So, to be frank, Arsenal have been shit lately.

We have not been creating nearly enough chances.
We are conceding shitty and unnecessary goals.
Our finishing has been below par.
The midfield is passing the ball around nicely, but with no real intensity.

Obviously it is easy to criticize when the team is not performing, but some of these issues have been a long time coming.

The goal scoring problem is not only down to the strikers not finishing, but starts at the back. altough i aggree that Jenkinson has been performing above expectations, i still feel he has a lot of work to do on the attacking side of the game. Santos has been santos on the left.....we need Gibbs back asap.
With the wing backs struggling to get forward, the midfield has also struggled to get in behind opponents. This has led to alot of  "boring" passing going on in midfield without any real penetration.

When we do finally create an attack, the biggest problem for us in some of the games, is the fact that it is left to Gervinho to put the ball in the net......and that my friends, is a big, big problem. His abality to get past players is decent, but everything that happens after that (in the box, in most cases), is not good at all. I cant recall one time this season where he put the ball into the box early. How many time have we not seen Gervinho drift wide, cut in, take 17 to many touches only to find Podolski already putting up camp behind the goals after making a run into the small box only to see Gervinho still fiddling with the ball all alone on the pitch. We need to give the Giroud a run of games. with some chips and mayonaise on the side.

Defensively i think the problem is a mix of low confidince and lately, some reshuffeling.
Midfielders are getting tired. if Santi or Arteta had to get injured, we would be in quite a situation.
We need another striker who is kinda like gervinho, but just good.

Lets hope Willshere can come back and inspire the team to do something good today.

Who know, we might actually win and be all positive and shit again.