Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said his team paid for their wickedness in the last third in their misfortune to Southampton on Saturday and communicated worries about their new rut in structure after they tumbled to a third consecutive Premier League rout.
Jan Bednarek's first-half goal demonstrated enough for Southampton to get a triumph at home as goalkeeper Fraser Forster assisted them with seeing out a 1-0 win notwithstanding Arsenal ruling belonging and having 23 shots at goal.
"It's a real concern. We've lost games in various ways. To lose the manner in which we did today is hard to make sense of. Assuming you saw the game, you'd say Arsenal had won easily... It's a really troublesome one to take," Arteta told journalists.
"We performed however didn't obtain an outcome. We really want both. You need to place the ball in the net. You need to make the most of the conclusive minutes to win football matches and right now we're not doing that.
"Forster was unbelievable, the recoveries that he made today. It was a pivotal occasion. That is the reason I say the crate has chosen the game today. You could see the game was one-way traffic."
Southampton benefited from a protective mistake to start to lead the pack and Arsenal, having neglected to make the most of early possibilities, were dull in assault until late in the final part when Forster's recoveries kept them under control.
Having additionally lost to Crystal Palace and Brighton and Hove Albion, Arsenal have slipped to 6th in the standings with 54 places, level with Manchester United and three behind north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur.
"The manner in which we controlled the game makes it hard to comprehend how we lost," Arteta said. "The manner in which we protected for the goal wasn't adequate.
"We didn't hit the objective commonly and the final result was not great. We yielded an extremely messy goal from a set-piece. Whenever you have how much circumstances we made, you want to score three or four.
"(The players) are really down today and they are down since they can't find the right responses separated from what we can improve around the container. That is the baffling part."
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