Mikel Arteta spoke to BBC Match of the Day after Arsenal's victory over Nottingham Forest: "We had quite a lot of uncertainties, the boys had been away for 10 days travelling the world, only one day to prepare the match with an early kick-off.

Arsenal were excellent, both in how they dominated the game with speed, angles and quality and also in how relentlessly they performed all of the above.

Despite the injury concerns, Mikel Arteta did not hesitate to start Odegaard against Forest in Saturday's early kick-off.