Good news, Arsene! Arsenal's 2016/17 side currently winning more games than Arsenal's 2003/04 Invincibles
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First thing's first. Before we get inundated with angry tweets from Arsenal's army of keyboard warriors, let us be clear: no-one is suggesting that the current Arsenal side is better than the Arsenal Invincibles. That would be insane.
The Gunners squad of 2003/04 - the players who went unbeaten throughout an entire Premier League season - is rightly lauded as the greatest Arsenal team there has ever been. Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira et al were a uniquely brilliant group of superstars, and the idea that the current crop are on the same level as those legends is clearly ludicrous.
HOWEVER…
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Arsene Wenger's current team are once again being hammered by all and sundry, labelled a bunch of flakes who simply don't possess the winning mentality of the great title-winning Arsenal sides.
Following crushing defeats to Watford and Chelsea, the last word many people would use to describe the current Arsenal squad is "winners".
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That is precisely why this chart will leave the jaws of plenty of Arsenal fans on the floor.
Prepare to be amazed…
Best ever Arsenal win percentages All competitions
Look closely at that table and you will see that Arsenal have won 64% of all the games they have played this season.
Remarkably, that is the joint third best win percentage from ANY season in the club's ENTIRE history, and the second best since Wenger took charge (behind only 2001/02).
Even more remarkably, it makes this an actual fact:
Percentage of matches won Arsenal, 2016-17 64 % Arsenal, 2003-04 63 % All competitions
So, while Arsenal are clearly not going to win the league - and are VERY clearly not going to go through an entire league season unbeaten - they are currently on course to win more of their matches than the Invincibles of 2003/04.
A moot point, perhaps - after all, today's team certainly LOSE more matches than the team of the past.
But still… it does help to put the outrage over Arsenal's form this season into some sort of perspective. Isn't that right, Arsene?