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.

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Video How nice it is to write about three points in the Premier League again. Yes, there have been a couple of Interlulls, but you had to go back to October 5th for our previous win – the 3-1 victory over Southampton.