I think he knows his preferred XI, but injuries have disrupted this. Don't forget Timber is out, Zinchenko, Martinelli, Partey and Jesus have missed a fair chunk of the season and Saka and Saliba have struggled fitness wise.

Not sure he doesn't know his best XI, just injuries have disrupted us all season. Obviously the Timber injury has had a big impact, then Jesus, Martinelli, and to a lesser extent Trossard and Saka, have all had spells out injured. Havertz flopping, although not unexpected to us fans, has also made him rethink. With Timber out I am pretty sure Arteta would play Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Rice, Odegaard, Havertz, Martinelli, Saka and Jesus more often than not.

He clearly doesn't know his best eleven. He probably knew his preferred eleven on paper at the start of the season but it turns out it's probably not his best.

A good start to the season results wise though, we've got results from poor performances. The Chelsea game was by far our worst in a long time, not sure what happened there, the players just looked out of it mentally.

Hopefully we start clicking now. Get Ramsdale back in goal, find a midfield that starts to gel again.