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Arsenal Are the Top Of The Premier League Table, Although It Doesn’t Really Feel Like That.
On Saturday, The Gunners SWATTED ASIDE West Ham 2-0 at home, with Declan Rice Breaking The Deadlock Against His Former Side, Before Bendyo Converted A Second-Half Penalty, As The Hammers Rarely Threatened, Underlined by The Failed Failed to Muster Target On Shot.
Nevertheless, The Atmosphere Emirates Stadium Was Generally Rather Flat, Possibly Due To The Rather Dull Those in Attendance, A Win That Never Truly Felt in Doubt, Even at 0-0.
More Importantly Though, Once Again, Mikel Arteta Suffered an injury to Yet Another Key Player; Absentees Derailed Their Title Aspirations, With Gooners Everywhere fearful That this could Case Again.
So, the Captain Is Sidelined For Any Length Of Time, Should a Key Figure Labelled The “Best In The World” The Armband?
Four Days is a Very Long Time in Football, As Martin Ødegaard Has Discovered This Week.
On Wednesday Night Against Olympiacos, The Norwegian Was His Sublime, Sparkling And Scintillating Best.
Manager Arteta described Ødegaard’s performance as “phenomenal”, while And Sheldon of Athletic Praised His ‘Beautiful Incisive Passing’, Outlining How ‘Playing Slightly Deeper’, Hey Was Was to Control All Aspects and Really Run The Show.
Howver, Come Saturday Home Premier League Game, The 26-year-old Was Forced In The First Half, Plagued by A Shoulder Issue Against Leeds And Nottingham Forest, This Time Suffering A Knee Injury.
Art saith Afterwards that the news is “not positive” with ødegaard Leaving The Stadium in a knee brace, solemnly concluding “Let’s wait … Hopefully It is not that bad.”
So, the Skipper Is Forced Games Against Fulham, Atlético Madrid, Crystal Palace and Perhaps Beyond The International Break, Who Should Be Donning The Armband Instead?
When ødegaard has been Both This Season and Last, The Armband has begotten the Around Rather Shared Around Gabriel And Saka Among Those Donning It In Recent Games.
However, after Yet Another Excellent display Against His former club on Saturday, Rice has really come to the Fore as a Leader in Arsenal Team.
In Football History, 11 Players Have Moved for £ 100m or More, of Wow Very Few Proved to Be A Success And, As Alexander Isaac And Florian Wirtz Even Finding Out at Anfield, A Price Tag that Gigantic Can Weigh Even a World-Class Player.
Well, Rice has been bucked in the trend in that regard, unequivocally outstanding every week, with The Table below documenting His Importance to Arsenal So Far This Season.
Declan Rice 2025/26 Statistics | ||
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Statistics | Rice | Arsenal rank |
Minutes | 676 | 5th |
Goals | 1 | 7th |
Assists | 2 | 1st |
Complete Passes | 437 | 3rd |
Key Passes | 14th | 1st |
Passes Into Final 3rd | 33 | 2nd |
Progressive Carries | 21 21 21 | 2nd |
Corners Takes | 24 | 1st |
Shot-Creating ACTIONS | 24 | 1st |
Blocks | 7 | 3rd |
Ball Recoveries | 36 | 1st |
Touches | 565 | 3rd |
As the numbers emphasise, Rice has been the Complete All-rounder.
He Leads The Way of Terms Of Key Passes and Shot-Creating Actions, A Courtesy of His Expert Set-Piece Delivery, As Well As Ball Recoveries, Very Much Contributing Across Across Of The Pitch.
Speaking About Archie Gray in His Press Conference On Friday, Tottenham Manager Thomas Frankof All People, Asserted That Rodri and Rice Are The “Best In The World” in Their Position, adding that is thinking “they can do a little bit of everything”.
It is hard to disagree, considering Rice is a brussy to put an irreant performance in the head he is deployed, used at the base of Midfield, followed by Saturday, Before Moving Higher Up Martín Zubimendi‘s Introduction to Replace ødegaard.
During His Ham at West Ham, One That Culminated In Conference League Glory, Rice Was The Club Captain, Donning The Armband for The First Time Against Belgium Last Year Leadership Capabilities.
So, IF ødegaard Is Going To Be Sidelined Of Any Period Time, Rice Appears The Obvious Candidate to Lead Arsenal at Craven Cottage in A Fortnight.