Arsenal vs Napoli: 5 key players to steady the rocking boat

3. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang hardly ever makes this list because, honestly, he’s going to do what he’s going to do. He isn’t a high-impact player unless someone else is even more high impact, and thus feeding him the ball at every possible opportunity.

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He was anonymous against Everton, and has been so before, and hasn’t even been starting recently, but Unai Emery knows what’s at stake against Napoli and he’s going to need a nice padded lead, which will probably mean getting the bromance back together up top.

Aubameyang is going to have to take his chances, lest we run the risk of him squandering himself into a funk. Usually that’s avoidable so long as you keep feeding him and keep him involved, but there are no guarantees when Aubameyang is involved in them.

It’s been awhile since we saw him starting in a front two with Lacazette, but it’s been a method of massive success going up to the point where he was too ill against Newcastle. It’s time to return to that and put our most capable attackers on the pitch together again.

Moving on to No. 2.