Mirth Depends on if Odegaard is fit but Eze's taking the piss a bit. The whole maverick genius thing is fine during the regular season but I would rather give minutes to Odegaard to get him match fit for the CL final.
Doubt Martin is gonna be fit and would have persisted with Eze, but he really pissed me off today. There's also a bigger issue that Arteta can't seem to solve when he starts: you can't sever the connection between attack and midfield like we do. We stick him close to Gyökeres because that's where he's supposed to play; bloke's a second striker, but to compensate defensively we have used Rice and Zubimendi as that hateful double pivot that drops way too deep.
Myles has mitigated some of this since coming into the team because he can turn on a dime whenever he gets the ball regardless of whether he has an opponent in his back, but Rice still has to play higher up the pitch than Arteta is comfortable with if we're going to gel.
All in all it's a good problem to have in the squad; it's just not a good problem to have right now when it's our only option left. Arteta need guys like Gyökeres and Eze who can stretch him tactically though. Given time we'll go up a level with them in the team. I still think Eze should play on the left longterm, but he's never displacing Trossard this season.
