Country: England
That is a lot of adjustment and I'm sure if you erased every teams bad patch this season everyone looks great. The points between teams are pretty close this season.Well if you take out that 8 game disaster patch and then average out our points, we’d be in second place behind City (calculated this a couple weeks ago, may or may not be exactly right anymore).
The results outside of that bad patch have been decent.
The red cards in very winnable matches and individual gaffs like Sterling scoring a header is what has been unfair on Mikel, none of those should have happened.
A number of those matches we lost in that run we thoroughly deserved to lose however. Wrong personnel, pumping crosses when we run out of ideas, not figuring out certain tactics against the like Sp**s, Leicester and Villa etc.
Credit to Arteta atleast theres a formation and plan now. Players slotting in or getting dropped doesn't hurt as much these days particularly upfront (was always fine at the back).