Whilst I’m there, that LCM no 8 role….Arteta still won’t quite give up on having that role despite the fact that there really isn’t any player in the team that can competently play there. Today he reverted to his thinking from a year ago by having Havertz there and his goal aside, was totally ineffective and once again it caused whoever played on the left wing (Martinelli and then Trossard) to become totally isolated.

Merino, Rice, none of them are good enough passers of the ball to play there. In fact the only individual he’s never tried there is Ethan Nwaneri….but that’s because he’s decided that like Clarke Kent/Superman…he and Odegaard can never appear at the same time.