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Arsenal Power Rankings, week 10: Martin Odegaard and Noni Madueke bring the heat

Arsenal are the best team in the Premier League right now.
ByKian Long
Martin Odegaard, Arsenal
Martin Odegaard, Arsenal | David Price/GettyImages

The Premier League table doesn't always reflect how teams are performing; sometimes, teams can bank points, or they can drop a few points while looking otherwise impressive in a tough fixture run.

However, the position that doesn't lie is the top place. Arsenal are in immaculate form, and they are by far the team to beat right now. So, let's take a look at the Premier League power rankings heading into the November international break.

Rounding off before the international break, Arsenal continued winning ways with a win over Hull City.

Arsenal Power Rankings as the Gunners round out week 10 in style

Note: Only those who make a Premier League appearance this season are featured.


21. Cristhian Mosquera

Games started: 2

Appearances from the bench: 0

Mosquera keeps falling further down the pecking order, and with William Saliba recently making an appearance in the Arsenal U21s, Mosquera is even further out of the picture. His last Premier League start came against Aston Villa back in August, with gameweek 10 giving no reassurances to his place in the team.


20. Max Dowman

Games started: 0

Appearances from the bench: 2

Max Dowman has hardly been given a look-in this season in the Premier League, but he is still only young. Gameweek 10 was another week where he didn't feature in the Premier League, leaving his season total at 19 mintes, spread across two cameos against Brighton and Everton.


19. Piero Hincapie

Games started: 0

Appearances from the bench: 5

Piero Hincapie made a substantial appearance from the bench in week 10, registering over 20 minutes for Arsenal. He maintained the clean sheet, but Calafiori won't feel threatened by his cameo just yet.

Hincapie has become accustomed to being second fiddle this season, but admittedly, his injury hasn't helped. He will hope to mount a starting lineup challenge coming out of the international break, but it will be tough given Arsenal's run of tough fixtures.


18. Eberechi Eze

Games started: 2

Appearances from the bench: 5

So far this season, it's been a campaign to forget for Eberechi Eze, but week 10 provided at least some respite for him. Tzolis started the game, and he didn't play great, but then again, neither did Eze when he came off the bench!

Eze will now be involved in international duty with England, with Arsenal fans hoping he comes back to fight for his spot out on Arsenal's left.


17. Christos Tzolis

Games started: 7

Appearances from the bench: 0

So far, so good for summer signing Christos Tzolis. The Greek international has overperformed what Arsenal fans would have expected him, but so far, inconsistency has been his problem.

Against Hull City in week 10, Tzolis was ineffective, but it wasn't through a lack of trying. With a better end product, there's no reason why he can't be good, but having the end product is the most important thing.


16. Martin Zubimendi

Games started: 0

Appearances from the bench: 7

Martin Zubimendi has fallen from grace quite heavily this season, and he will understandably blame the sheer reduction in his minutes. Bruno Guimaraes arriving has hard Zubimendi's chances of making the starting lineup, with Bruno yet again making the starting lineup in week 10.

There is talk of Zubimendi being vulnerable as Arsenal plan their January transfer window. It wouldn't be the most surprising thing in the world, since the Gunners seem to have already found his replacement.


15. Mikel Merino

Games started: 1

Appearances from the bench: 9

Mikel Merino might not be Arsenal's starter in the Premier League, but he's still impressed across all competitions. In week 10, he replaced Declan Rice around the hour mark, and as the fixtures heat up after the international break, this is his best route into getting more minutes in a hotly contested midfield.


14. Jurrien Timber

Games started: 3

Appearances from the bench: 3

It's been a slow start to the season for Jurrien Timber, but week 10 against Hull was positive for the full-back. He was given more license to attack than he's been used to this season, and he was involved in some pretty great attacking play for the Gunners. With more consistency, he could certainly climb these rankings like he did last season.


13. Kai Havertz

Games started: 9

Appearances from the bench: 1

Kai Havertz has had some great moments this season, most notably scoring at Anfield and against Chelsea, but it's his inconsistency that lets him down in these rankings. In week 10, it was another performance whereby he may as well have not played; that's how ineffective he was.


12. Viktor Gyokeres

Games started: 1

Appearances from the bench: 6

Yes, Viktor Gyokeres has been better than Kai Havertz this season, even if he doesn't start. Part of what makes Arsenal so great is that they frequently win the second half of games - Gyokeres plays a huge part in that. In week 10, Arsenal immediately looked like the better team when Gyokeres came off the bench, and he's made quite the habit of that this season.


11. Bruno Guimaraes

Games started: 4

Appearances from the bench: 4

Bruno Guimaraes has been a game-changing signing for Arsenal. The Brazil international who signed from Newcastle has immensely improved Arsenal's depth. From a starting position, Arteta is still finding the best partnership for Bruno, but nobody can deny his impact from the bench in a handful of games this season.


10. Bukayo Saka

Games started: 7

Appearances from the bench: 0

He's currently out injured, which is why Saka is dropping in the rankings. However, even with fewer games under his belt, no Arsenal player has scored more Premier League goals than Saka (3).


9. Myles Lewis-Skelly

Games started: 6

Appearances from the bench: 1

Myles Lewis-Skelly has been Arsenal's strongest partner alongside Declan Rice, but he is happy to play rotationally alongside Bruno Guimaraes. The composed midfielder has improved leaps and bounds ever since he moved away from the full-back position towards the end of last season.


8. Riccardo Calafiori

Games started: 9

Appearances from the bench: 1

Calafiori has been exceptional for Arsenal this season. Many of their bright attacking moments have happened down their left, particularly at the start of the season, and the Italian is a big reason for that. He's taken his foot off the gas a little bit, and week 10 wasn't his finest showing, but he's built up plenty of leverage from the start of the season to keep his spot in the top 10.


7. Ben White

Games started: 7

Appearances from the bench: 0

Arsenal fans can count their lucky stars that White wasn't sold in the summer. Although he was filling in for Jurrien Timber, he's actually been better than his Dutch counterpart this season. We have been reminded of the White of old, already racking up an impressive 3 assists so far this season.


6. Noni Madueke

Games started: 4

Appearances from the bench: 3

Arsenal haven't missed Bukayo Saka in his injury spell, and they largely have Noni Madueke to thank for it. He has been Arsenal's most improved player this season, and he appears to be improving week by week, with yet another creative display in week 10.


5. Ezri Konsa

Games started: 8

Appearances from the bench: 1

Ezri Konsa is a contender for the Premier League signing of the season. Obviously, Arsenal were forced to buy him due to Saliba's injury, but now Arsenal fans are genuinely trying to find ways to keep Konsa in the team when he returns. That's the biggest compliment to Konsa, but the Englishman deserves it.


4. Martin Odegaard

Games started: 10

Appearances from the bench: 0

Probably the most overhated player in the Premier League, for no reason whatsoever. Arsenal are a better team with Martin Odegaard than without him- fact. Having been tasked with adding more goals to his game at the start of the season, Odegaard is keeping that pace up with another goal in week 10.

3. Gabriel Magalhaes

Games started: 10

Appearances from the bench: 0

Arteta just can't justify benching Gabriel, not even for squad rotation purposes. Playing with two different defensive partners this season, Gabriel looks like the same defender we've known him to be, and week 10 was yet another example of why the Gunners need him in the backline.

2. David Raya

Games started: 10

Appearances from the bench: 0

Having made 7 clean sheets already, David Raya is well on his way to winning yet another Golden Boot. It was a pretty great week for the Spaniard, capping off his FIFPro Men's World 11 inclusion with what he loves more: a clean sheet.

1. Declan Rice

Games started: 10

Appearances from the bench: 0

Even after week 10, no Premier League player has made more assists than Declan Rice. This is all with a reduction in his minutes, by the way, which only seems to be making him better than ever. Just when you think Rice has reached his ceiling, he keeps finding new ways to raise the bar this season.

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