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Arsenal are set to stick by manager Unai Emery, per The Athletic’s Gunners reporter David Ornstein.

What’s the word?

The north London side lost 2-0 to Leicester City at The King Power Stadium on Saturday, their fourth successive Premier League game without a victory. Per Ornstein’s report, it is their worst start to a league season since the 1982/83 campaign. They finished 10th in that campaign.

Ornstein, though, claims that the Gunners have no plans currently to sack the former PSG boss.

In fact, Emery is said to have the “total backing” of the club’s board and ownership and they have made it clear they do not plan to axe the 48-year-old.

Players have to take responsibility

Arsenal are trying to grow and improve and yet there are Twitter hashtags calling for Emery to leave the club.

At the end of the day, would there really be much improvement if another manager came in? They have some genuinely excellent players; Last season's Golden Boot winner Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and the club's Player of the Year Alexandre Lacazette are two prime examples, but they have to start taking responsibility for this slump.

Against Leicester, Emery picked a 3-4-1-2 formation that was surely designed to smother the threat of the Foxes.

And, as The Athletic’s report states, it was working before the first goal, managing to nullify the threat of the Foxes. Arsenal actually opened the scoring, only for Aubameyang's goal to be ruled out for offside.

Jamie Vardy scored the opener instead and, just like that, all of the club’s confidence evaporated.

That isn’t down to Emery; that’s on a unit devoid of the guts needed to fight back.

It is all very well calling for the manager to leave the dugout but it is down to the players to perform on the pitch. After all, they are the ones kicking the football, not the manager.

That they haven’t been playing to the best of their abilities isn't entirely the Spaniard’s fault; this update ought to spark a reaction from the players as they look to get back to form.