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Ian Wright believes Arsenal supporters lacked ‘energy’ at the Emirates Stadium during their 1-0 defeat to West Ham on Saturday.
Mikel Arteta’s side have failed to make ground on Liverpool and remain eight points behind the Premier League leaders, who play Manchester City on Sunday.
Jarrod Bowen’s first-half goal was enough to secure the win for West Ham, while Arsenal struggled to create clear-cut chances and registered just two shots on target during the game.
Wright feels Arsenal’s hierarchy needed to bolster Arteta’s attacking options in the January transfer window and claims the supporters are now responding to the team’s lack of attacking threat.
‘I think you probably have to look at the summer and January, he [Arteta] needed help,’ Wright told Premier League Productions.
‘Like I said at the start, I don’t think he could do any more in respect of trying to coach this team to the levels they’ve got to at the moment.
‘I think what you saw with this game is just a little bit of a bridge too far in respect of a team that is defending brilliantly well and we just haven’t got the ammunition to break them down.
‘I didn’t think we had the energy in the crowd today, they seemed to see that there was no energy in the team and we couldn’t put them under the kind of pressure for West Ham to crack, they were too resolute today.
‘Again, the manager can’t do any more with what he’s got, I believe.’
Asked if Arsenal could still win the Premier League title, Wright replied: ‘You have to have that intention.
‘I’m sure Liverpool will be thinking with eight points clear we’re going to go and see this off.
‘But you have to believe you can do it, otherwise what are you playing for?’
Wright later added: ‘I think you look at Liverpool as well, people saying Arsenal have to win to put the pressure on, Liverpool are winning games and keeping the pressure on an Arsenal team who haven’t got the firepower to try and stay with them.
‘Look at that game today, if West Ham scored two you think where are we going to get three goals from?
‘Those are the things you are thinking going into it. That’s why I was a little bit down today, because I’m thinking, ‘where’s it going to come from if we go behind?’. And that’s exactly what’s happened.’
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