Arteta wants to build Nwaneri's career brick by brick but the teenager has already earned the respect and trust of his senior players

Your team has hit a creative rut that coincided with the absence of your primary playmaker? Get him back and all your problems evaporate. So yes, the semi-frequent leaden-footed attacking, sterile possession and clumsy decision-making that reared its unfamiliar head at Arsenal over the last two months was nothing more than a team unable to cope without Martin Odegaard.

For Arsenal supporters it is great to see Martin Odegaard back in the starting XI. Of course, the Gunners skipper was named in Mikel Arteta's starting lineup for the clash with Chelsea before the international break,