At the risk of being contrarian I think the Saliba absence is overplayed

You want someone better than Holding away at the biggest teams for sure

But we forget that we were pretty ropey defensively before Saliba got injured. Holding for sure has exacerbated that but if you believe football pundits you’d think Saliba was the reason we have dropped six points in the last three games.

I don’t

In fact I don’t believe there’s any one single reason.

It’s Saliba, it’s Arteta, it’s psychological fragility, it’s Partey being shit since he returned from Africa, it’s Saka not being dropped, it’s Xhaka, it’s Zinchenko, it’s Holding. It’s a mosaic of fecal matter