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

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.

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.