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Former Tottenham star Aaron Lennon fears Arsenal’s reliance on set-pieces has become a ‘big worry’ for Mikel Arteta’s side.

The Gunners have established a reputation as dead ball kings this season with specialist coach Nicolas Jover devising innovative routines that have led to 13 Premier League goals this season.

It is a different story in open play, however, where the goals have dried up, partly as a consequence of an almost unprecedented injury crisis.

Without a recognised striker, Mikel Merino has been asked to play as a false nine in the absences of Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus who will miss the rest of the season.

The lack of an out and out centre forward has only served to heighten Arsenal’s reliance on set pieces and Lennon believes it has become an unhealthy obsession, echoing the sentiments of Gary Neville.

He said: ‘Arsenal get more excited for a corner than they do from stuff in open play – it’s so unusual for Arsenal. When you used to watch Arsenal it was playing through the lines, get it in to Martin Odegaard, silky football.

‘Now you see them going up for a corner and you see them buzzing – like this is a real chance.

‘We’ve never seen that from Arsenal. It’s a big worry for me.’

For Arteta, the problem of finding a solution to his side’s lack of potency has become a major headache with the decision not to make a signing in January looking a costly one.

Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli could be back after the international break but Arsenal will have to soldier on without a recognised centre forward.

‘We need to keep pushing, we need to keep going,’ said veteran midfielder Jorginho after another frustrating result.

‘We need to find the solutions to score, to create more chances in the box, more shots. Everyone needs to step up and do a bit more for the team.

‘The willingness of the team is huge and you can see how hard everyone tries and for sure we are going to carry on that way.’

Arteta, meanwhile, insisted he was pleased with the response of his side to last weekend’s wretched performance and defeat against West Ham but was frustrated his team were unable to turn their dominance into goals.

‘Very disappointing not to win it,’ he said. ‘Today, the standards were very different to the previous game; the energy, the willingness to make things happened.

‘We certainly tried many different ways, we dominated the game apart from one spell in the second half after one or two direct free-kicks where they had something in the box and one or two giveaways that allowed them to run, apart from that nothing.

‘With the amount of situations we generated, with the moments we opened them up, we lacked the final pass, the quality on that delivery and certainly more shots on target to actually win it and be more efficient.’

He added: ‘We tried and adapting the quality that we have, how we can help the team to create different things, to have threats from different qualities.

‘Probably they are not about arriving in the box and creating some magic moments, they are other kind of players. Try to adapt to that and do the best that we can.’

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