Moyes’s time is running out, Rashford gives no cause for alarm and Arsenal’s creative genius continues to shine
If Erling Haaland is the Premier League’s goal machine then its creative genius may well be, with apologies to Kevin De Bruyne, Martin Ødegaard. Come the season’s end, two Norwegians could be competing for individual honours. Placing the captaincy with an artistic playmaker is not usual practice in English
Football but Mikel Arteta has instead followed the orthodoxy of giving the armband to the team’s best, most important player. At Brighton it was Ødegaard who made the difference against an opponent refusing to be flushed out. His goal may have been a miskick but his pass for Gabriel Martinelli to score Arsenal’s fourth was a beauty. The one-time boy wonder who lost his way at
Real Madrid will not be going the same way as previous youthful burnouts like Nii Lamptey, Javier Saviola or Francis Jeffers. At 24, Ødegaard is Arsenal’s jewel. John Brewin
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