I think fans often overlook the mental side of the game because its not something we can analyse easily. We dont have enough evidence for it. But it's something I think about a lot and I thought I'd share some of my research in this thread.

Although they are a good team and they dominated every match, Liverpool winning almost every single game last season didnt make sense to me. How come other teams who also play good slip up vs some midtable team once in a while...

A lot of the time Liverpool would scrape wins in the dying minutes. And even though I noticed this pattern I couldnt find any logical reason behind it. I assume it has something to do with mentality. After some tough losses in the final games of last season I predicted that...

Liverpool wouldnt be able to continue their form of last season even if they played the same quality of football. And it happened. Besides a few other bad results Liverpool lost 7-2 to Aston Villa. No matter how bad you play, you dont concede 7 in one game vs Villa...

There has to be something wrong mentally in the players. Now I always wondered what a manager can do to improve mentality and some of Arteta's words have been interesting regarding this topic. He talked about how Arsenal need to adopt a winning mentality and signed Willian...

...for this cause. Whatever he did to improve the mentality, it worked, and it reflects onto Arteta's trophy cabinet. There are many clubs that are labelled "bottlejobs" like Spurs who failed to defend a 3-0 lead today. We could see them transition from this era as Mourinho...

...is also obsessed with this concept of a winning mentality.