How Gyokeres and Zubimendii adapted differently at Arsenal

In a summer where Arsenal aggressively pursued the depth to bolster against their perennial injury crisis, there seemed to be two players who could realistically aspire to be starters in Mikel Arteta's strongest side. For Martin Zubimendi that prospect has now become a certainty, such that it is hard to imagine how this team could be the best version of itself without the Spaniard at the base of its midfield. You probably could not say the same of Viktor Gyokeres, never quite as much of a lock for the strongest XI, but faltering at just the moment when competition in his position is building.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference ahead of the visit of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arteta was no less punchy in his assessment of both his players. Gyokeres, he said, is a player who can "