Arteta’s back-line have been more resilient since his arrival, but still demonstrated their pitfalls in their Europa League loss to Olympiakos at the end of February.
Speaking last month, Sokratis Papastathopoulos explained of Arteta’s vision: “I said before, that when all the team defends, the defence is better.
“It’s one team, it’s not only four or five players. We are one team, we have to defend everybody and we have to attack. I think that now we do better.
“Of course there is space to improve, but we start to do every game things that are very important for the team.
“I think we are in a good way. Every game is different, every game we have to do things for the win.”
