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.

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

Arsenal returned after the international break to breeze past an impressive Nottingham Forest team in the Premier League, with goals from Bukayo Saka, Thomas Partey and Ethan Nwaneri. Martin Ødegaard in particular was instrumental to their success,

While Martin Odegaard is fit, Arsenal will feel they are still part of this season’s Premier League title race. It may have been Bukayo Saka and substitutes Thomas Partey and Ethan Nwaneri who netted the goals against Nottingham Forest that secured a first League win in five games for the Gunners.

Ethan Nwaneri scored his first Premier League goal for Arsenal as Mikel Arteta’s side beat Nottingham Forest 3-0 to secure a first league win since October 5. Arsenal had the ball in the net after five minutes at the Emirates Stadium when Jurrien Timber bundled it home from a free-kick but Mikel Merino was judged to be offside from the initial header.