Does Arsenal have an unhealthy overreliance on Saka & Odegaard?

Arsenal has become heavily reliant on the brilliance of Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard, but is it now becoming a problem?

Arsenal's last two Premier League games have seen Mikel Arteta's side struggle going forward, and in both instances, Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard have done as they please.

When the duo are up and running, the Gunners purr in a way that sees them as one of the teams to beat in the league, but when the pair have an off day, as they did against Fulham and Everton, Arsenal look toothless in attack. There's no other individual who can pick the lock.

This is amplified by Gabriel Martinelli's failure to produce, too. So much of Arsenal's attack comes down Saka's flank that if teams simply shut it down and force the Gunners elsewhere, they become rudderless.

And it is now clear that without Saka and Odegaard firing, the Gunners aren't the same team, and that is a problem.

Given that Martinelli, Leandro Trossard, and others aren't giving the team much in the way of attacking threat, it has been easy for opposing teams to drift their backline to Saka's side, crowd the space, and force the Gunners to look at other avenues of attack.

But that's the problem. Right now, there isn't.

When Saka and Odegaard are in a groove, Arsenal functions like a well-oiled machine. But when teams gameplan to stop them, and they do, it doesn't appear that Mikel Arteta has a plan B. That has led some, including Carney, to suggest that the Gunners need to invest in the January transfer window to ease some of the offensive burden on the pair.

Had Arsenal gotten a little something from the left-hand side, then this likely isn't a conversation, but when things are going well, they need a different outlet.

If they don't get it, there might be a ceiling that this team can reach this year.

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