{"id":660964,"date":"2025-10-27T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=660964"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:50:17","slug":"paul-merson-mikel-arteta-arsenal-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/27\/paul-merson-mikel-arteta-arsenal-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Merson Hails Mikel Arteta\u2019s Arsenal with Stunning Chelsea Parallel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A disappointing 2024\/25 campaign saw Mikel Arteta\u2019s Arsenal<\/a> team finish without a major trophy despite promise throughout the season. During the summer transfer window, Arsenal strengthened in key areas, signing high-quality players such as Martin Zubimendi, Eberechi Eze, and Viktor Gyokeres.<\/p>\n

The team have also continued to be impressive defensively, with former player Paul Merson<\/a> praising the current team, comparing them to Jose Mourinho\u2019s Chelsea.<\/p>\n

Arsenal’s Strong Transfer Window Leads to Impressive Start<\/h2>\n

Paul Merson Compares Current Arsenal Team to Mourinho\u2019s Chelsea<\/h3>\n

Despite it only being the end of October, Paul Merson has made it clear in his Sky Sports column that he\u2019s tipping his former club to go all the way:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t see anyone stopping Arsenal. They are an efficient machine, but with super footballers in that machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making the comparison to Mourinho\u2019s brutally efficient Chelsea team from the 2004\/05 season:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey remind me of the Chelsea team of old under Jose Mourinho. As soon as that Chelsea team got in front it was game over. It was the same playing in my Arsenal team. Get a goal and it was back to the halfway line, and you could see in the opposition faces, they knew it was over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw that last Wednesday watching Atletico Madrid at the Emirates. Once Arsenal got that lead it was the end of the game and Atletico knew it. That’s the feeling you have with Arsenal now.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeams are not even getting a shot. The numbers they are producing defensively are unheard of.<\/p>\n

\u201cArsenal boast the best defensive record in Premier League,\u201d added Merson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are well-drilled, efficient and they do have flair players that can create and score goals, just like Mourinho’s Chelsea did,\u201d said Merson.<\/p>\n

Merson: Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are Unplayable<\/h3>\n

Retiterating his belief in Arsenal this season, Merson said:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI’d be flabbergasted if Arsenal didn’t win the league. People will say there are 30 games left but we are only a once-in-a-season strike from Dominik Szoboszlai from asking the question: ‘Who beats Arsenal this season?’<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey have the best defensive record in the whole of Europe, so you don’t have to score multiple goals to win football matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne goal will do for Arsenal and what a feeling that must be for the forwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

IMAGO \/ Pro Sports Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A disappointing 2024\/25 campaign saw Mikel Arteta\u2019s Arsenal team finish without a major trophy despite promise throughout the season. During the summer transfer window, Arsenal strengthened in key areas, signing high-quality players such as Martin Zubimendi, Eberechi Eze, and Viktor Gyokeres. The team have also continued to be impressive defensively, with former player Paul Merson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":635066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,3],"tags":[138,4372,3123],"class_list":["post-660964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-premier-league","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-paul-merson"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660970,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660964\/revisions\/660970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}