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Player:Gabriel
Feel Pepe will be rotated quite regularly with ESR throughout the season, tbh.
Saka and Ødegaard will be starters when fit, while as others have said, Pepe is the only one you could trust to put up numbers in those attacking midfield positions right now.
Ideally you would like to try a midfield 3 of, Partey-ESR-Ødegaard, use it as a poor man's Fernadinho-Silva-DeBruyne...feel that could be something that could get us somewhere.
Though Arteta will never be that attacking in the middle, so the best we can hope for is Lokonga getting ahead of Xhaka, which would be pretty good too.
Saka and Ødegaard will be starters when fit, while as others have said, Pepe is the only one you could trust to put up numbers in those attacking midfield positions right now.
Ideally you would like to try a midfield 3 of, Partey-ESR-Ødegaard, use it as a poor man's Fernadinho-Silva-DeBruyne...feel that could be something that could get us somewhere.
Though Arteta will never be that attacking in the middle, so the best we can hope for is Lokonga getting ahead of Xhaka, which would be pretty good too.