Minor blip or bigger issue? Making sense of Arsenal's heavy defeats in the WSL
Questions being asked after Arsenal concede nine goals in two games
Football has an incredible capacity to humble. One week ago, everyone connected to Arsenal was swelling with pride as the club produced one of their greatest ever performances and defeated European giants Lyon to reach the Champions League final.
Now, they are licking their wounds after suffering a fall which started at Villa Park on Wednesday evening in a 5–2 defeat to Aston Villa and continued on Bank Holiday Monday at Crawley, shipping another four goals in a first-ever league defeat to Brighton.
In many ways, that run of results, with the Gunners conceding nine goals sooner than you can book affordable flights to Lisbon, provide a neat microcosm of a season that has seen the North London club widely swing from historic highs to lamentable lows. The key question following two heavy defeats at the hands of the WSL's middle-class is a simple one: does any of this really matter?
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