Ethan Nwaneri could offer Arsenal solution as Mikel Arteta faces crucial Martin Odegaard question

When Mikel Arteta gathered his players astatine Arsenal’s grooming crushed connected Thursday, helium handed them a pen and acceptable them a task.

Arteta wanted his players to reply what were the difficulties and challenges they could expect erstwhile facing Leicester this weekend.

Naturally, Arteta would not divulge to the assembled media connected Friday what answers the players came up with, but it would beryllium nary astonishment if Martin Odegaard’s sanction was often featured.

Arsenal person coped good without their skipper truthful far, beating Tottenham and earning draws astatine Atalanta and Manchester City. They besides enjoyed a resounding 5-1 triumph implicit Bolton connected Wednesday.

Leicester, however, correspond a antithetic task. Arsenal person demonstrated however they tin negociate defensively without Odegaard, changing however they play to stifle their opponents, but present they indispensable bash truthful successful attack, too.

Arteta cannot acceptable up his broadside to beryllium heavy against Leicester and, successful fact, that is precisely what the Gunners themselves volition person to interruption down.

How they bash that without Odegaard volition beryllium telling. The Norwegian is the heartbeat of this Arsenal broadside and truthful often the subordinate they look astatine to unfastened up a defence. Arteta knows that each excessively good and it is wherefore helium has called connected his squad to accommodate successful their hunt for solutions.

“Obviously the power that Martin had successful our attacking signifier is enormous, and we cannot question that,” helium said.

“When you look astatine each metric, the mode we program the games, the types of things that we person to effort to bash to get him successful the spaces wherever helium tin beryllium precise unsafe for the opponent, it’s cardinal - it’s ever successful narration to him, basically.

“We don’t person him, truthful we person to adapt. We person to accommodate our mode of playing and we person to find different ways to bash it that are precise efficient. It volition beryllium antithetic - it won’t beryllium the aforesaid - but hopefully precise businesslike arsenic well.”

Quite what “different” looks similar remains to beryllium seen. The astir apt solution is that Kai Havertz drops into midfield and 1 of Leandro Trossard oregon Gabriel Jesus leads the line.

Havertz fulfilled that relation past play erstwhile required, though admittedly that was astatine a clip erstwhile helium was not excelling rather arsenic overmuch arsenic helium is present arsenic a striker.

Nwaneri was not the lone youngster to impress, with Myles Lewis-Skelly besides catching the oculus astatine left-back, and Arteta has suggested that much opportunities volition come.

Arteta should not beryllium acrophobic to enactment his spot successful youth

“For sure, we dainty them similar first-team players due to the fact that they merit to beryllium successful the presumption that they are,” helium said.

“We person to beryllium conscious that evidently we are managing the development, that that measurement has been truly far, but arsenic good we person to beryllium just with them, and if they springiness america the close signs and reasons to play them more, we person to bash so.”

Nwaneri is surely giving the close signs present and, adjacent if helium does not commencement against Leicester, it is casual to envisage a script wherever helium is called upon disconnected the bench.

As Arteta says, Arsenal indispensable accommodate to beingness without Odegaard and the aforesaid goes for him. He should not beryllium acrophobic to enactment his spot successful youth.