by Scott Willis
Time for another round up of how Arsenal fans feel about the state of the club. Since I last asked about things Arsenal have played 7 matches, winning 5 of those and collecting a pretty impressive 2.3 points per match in the league (87 point pace!), won two FA cup matches while advancing to the quarterfinals but they also got dumped out of the Europa League when they really should have gone through.
GENERAL ARSENAL APPROVAL RATING:
Even with being knocked out of Europe, fans are happy with how the club is doing right now. I asked a new question this week about how people feel about the direction of the club and things are similar in that people are positive about the direction of the club.
How things have changed overall over the 3 surveys.
ARTETA APPROVAL RATING:
There aren't any complaints about Mikel Arteta.
THE MANAGEMENT DUO:
Raul still is still the second least popular figure among Arsenal management (only behind the owners) but fans' opinions didn't really get worse from him compared to the last survey.
Edu is starting to see his numbers trend more positive with people starting to move off of neutral stance as he has been at the club longer.
Interestingly people are generally happy with the overall talent level of the club but they have questions about the people who are leading the recruitment efforts.
Where people are not happy is with the ownership of Kronkie Sports and Entertainment, I am actually surprised that 6% of respondents showed any level of approval with KSE.
THE PHASES OF PLAY:
The approval rating for the attack improved quite a bit from the last time I asked. Arsenal did score 13 goals in the time between surveys averaging 1.9 goals per match, which was a significant improvement over the 1.3 that they had in the last survey period so maybe that explains things.
For the midfield, things are still generally mixed and there hasn't been much change since the start.
In defense, things have shown steady improvement. Fans are still generally negative about the Arsenal defense but the trend is very positive. That is also reflected in the statistics for goals allowed, Arsenal allowed just 0.7 goals per match in the 7 matches between surveys and in general I think that they have looked like that isn't a fluke.
