It’s not the first time this week that Mikel Arteta is indebted to his ‘finishers’.

But Arsenal’s last-gasp rescue act does not entirely let their manager off the hook for picking the wrong team in the first place. Mikel Arteta creates history as Gabriel Martinelli rescues Arsenal in dramatic fashion against Man City

For the best part of 93 minutes, it looked as if Arteta’s dumbfounding decision to leave out Eberechi Eze in favour of Leandro Trossard and to start Mikel Merino as the No.10 would backfire spectacularly.

Just as in Arsenal’s 1-0 defeat at Liverpool last month, the inclusion of Merino suggested Arteta saw the visit of City as a ‘must not lose’ as opposed to ‘must win.’

While Eze did not cover himself in glory in the Gunners’ midweek Champions League triumph in Bi

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