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Lacazette's poor game underlines Arsenal's issues during Arteta's rebuild

Only one of Arsenal and Leicester City started with a centre-forward on the pitch, but it says a lot about Alexandre Lacazette's performance that you couldn't really tell the difference.

Mikel Arteta has made considerable progress in evolving Arsenal since taking charge last December, but Sunday's 1-0 defeat was a slip back into the past as they failed to make their early dominance pay, fizzled out as an attacking force and were undone by a classic counter-attack goal.

"I'm really disappointed, we had it in our hands in the first half," said Arteta to Sky Sports after the match.