How many players could be out with ankle ligament damage for two months and reappear as if we blinked and missed it?

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.

Speaking to TNT Sports, Odegaard admitted he has found Virgil van Dijk to be his toughest-ever opponent. Odegaard was still sidelined for Liverpool’s trip to the Emirates earlier this season where the two sides shared the points.