29 Nov “This is relegation form”: Emery on the brink after latest Arsenal “shambles”

Arsenal manager Unai Emery is on the brink of being sacked following their dismal 2-1 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League.

The Gunners are now winless in seven games in all competitions – their worst run of results since 1992 which has left Emery's job now seemingly in tatters.

In front of an appalling Emirates Stadium crowd, two goals in nine second-half minutes from the Bundesliga outfit saw Arsenal’s plummet deeper into crisis.

Club legend Martin Keown says this latest embarrassment should spell to end for the under-fire Spaniard.

“I think he may now have taken the team as far as he can. We just witnessed an absolute shambles of a performance in that second half,” Keown told BT Sport.

“The team selection, the team motivation, the substitutions, the performance – everything was missing here, it was a dreadful performance.

“Is he able to motivate this team? He seems to have lost the players. The desire seems to have ebbed away.”

“We’re going only one way at the moment – this is relegation form.

“Do the club really realise how tricky this is now going to be? Decisions have got to be made.

“I feel it’s very sad. The fans, there was hardly anyone there tonight, they’ve voted with their feet. They knew what was coming there.”

Arsenal sit eighth in the Premier League, eight points outside the top four, after missing out on Champions League football in Emery’s first season.

Emery will reportedly learn his fate when he meets the club’s hierarchy on Friday.

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