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.

While Martin Odegaard is fit, Arsenal will feel they are still part of this season’s Premier League title race. It may have been Bukayo Saka and substitutes Thomas Partey and Ethan Nwaneri who netted the goals against Nottingham Forest that secured a first League win in five games for the Gunners.

Arsenal: Magic Martin Odegaard lifts mood to reignite title belief - Influential captain delivers an inspired display against Nottingham Forest to show the Gunners just what they’ve been missing

Manchester City's calamitous spell continued with a shocking 4-0 rout by Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, while Arsenal returned to winning ways in the Premier League with a confident 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest.

Ange Postecoglou said Tottenham showed what they are capable of in an astonishing 4-0 thrashing of Manchester City on Saturday, but called on his players to match those standards more regularly.Spurs' season has been littered with spectacular performances as they also won 3-0 at Manchester United,

Manchester City collapsed to their fifth straight defeat on Saturday, hammered 4-0 by Tottenham in another huge blow to their Premier League title hopes as Arsenal got their challenge back