Arsenal appear to be they’ve discovered their new Ramsey

Per week in the past, Arsenal romped to a 3-0 victory over Fulham. The win was by no means unsure as Mikel Arteta‘s facet performed a few of their most interesting soccer all season.

This weekend, it was something however fairly for the Gunners. The truth is, it was really fairly controversial.

In opposition to West Ham, it took a solitary objective from Leandro Trossard, but it surely wasn’t with out a whole lot of huffing and puffing. Reality be advised, Arsenal struggled to create a lot. It was a efficiency maybe extra indicative of the shows we noticed publish Carabao Cup closing.

But, as all good sides do, they discovered a technique to recover from the road, even when they did get just a little assist from VAR within the dying embers of the match.

How Arsenal got here via nervy West Ham conflict

Arsenal have began their final three Premier League matches in sensible style. In opposition to Newcastle, Eberechi Eze gave them the lead within the opening ten minutes and towards Fulham, it was Viktor Gyokeres who opened the scoring early on.

Versus West Ham, Arteta’s facet might have been up within the early exchanges. They dominated the ball and had 9 pictures earlier than the hosts had their first.

Nevertheless, the match modified after the substitution of the injured Ben White. After a problem with Crysencio Summerville, the right-back injured his knee, resulting in the full-back coming off.

Arteta took the choice to position Declan Rice at right-back. He might have favoured Cristian Mosquera however Martin Zubimendi got here on as a substitute to accomplice Myles Lewis-Skelly in the midst of the park.

But, in that second, the guests misplaced management of the sport. The midfield had been bypassed and the appropriate flank didn’t look outfitted to cope with the waves of West Ham assaults that got here down that facet, largely from El Hadji Malick Diouf.

Arsenal rallied, nevertheless, and Arteta was capable of right his mistake within the second interval. Rice shifted again into midfield, Mosquera got here on at right-back and issues appeared higher.

Regardless of that, the league leaders nonetheless discovered life tough. The sport modified this fashion and that in three large moments. David Raya got here to the rescue to make a outstanding save to disclaim Mateus Fernandes. The midfielder was one-on-one with the objective at his mercy, just for the Arsenal goalkeeper to face his floor and make a high save. It was a second that will properly have simply gained his facet the title.

Trossard was the eventual hero, scoring the profitable objective. Martin Odegaard, who loved his most interesting cameo of the season, saved his composure inside the realm after which fed the Belgian who discovered the web through a deflection.

However, there was nonetheless yet another large second. Within the closing few moments, Callum Wilson appeared to have rescued a degree for the relegation-threatened Irons, but it surely was dominated out for a foul on Raya. Pablo had his arm throughout the Spaniard and after a prolonged VAR assessment, the objective was not given.

The Arsenal goalkeeper was on the centre of two of the most important moments of the sport, however the largest quantity of reward should be given to Trossard.

Arsenal’s modern-day Aaron Ramsey saves the day

Whereas this was a tough outdated battle for the Gunners, it is secure to say that they had rediscovered their mojo within the closing third over the past week.

A big a part of that has been courtesy of Trossard. Whereas Gyokeres and Bukayo Saka have been within the targets, they’ve been helped brilliantly by their elder counterpart on the left flank.

It had been a fairly disastrous begin to 2026 for the winger. Earlier than at this time’s recreation, he had not scored in 25 straight video games. He was with no objective within the entirety of this calendar yr.

Nevertheless, within the final two league video games, Trossard has been wonderful. Final week, the 31-year-old assisted Gyokeres’ second objective and accomplished a profession excessive six dribbles in a single recreation.

This time, he was the true hero, placing to relaxation a horrible run of kind. It was a traditional Trossard second. He has been Mr Clutch ever since arriving on the Emirates Stadium. Simply name him the modern-day Aaron Ramsey, if you’ll.

Earlier than the Arteta reign, Ramsey was the clutch participant of the latter Wenger years. He all the time appeared to pop up within the north London derby with a particular efficiency and scored two FA Cup closing targets to seal trophies for Arsenal.

Quick ahead a number of years and the person of the second appears to be Trossard. It’s not the primary time the attacker has popped up with an vital objective after his £27m transfer from Brighton.

In the course of the 2023/24 season when he scored 17 targets in all competitions, the extensive ahead normally all the time got here up trumps. He netted a late equaliser to rescue a degree towards Chelsea, struck residence towards Liverpool, scored once more towards Chelsea and located the web versus Manchester United.

In Europe, he scored an vital objective towards Porto, in addition to scoring towards Bayern Munich to salvage a draw with simply 14 minutes left within the quarter-final first leg.

Whereas these moments have been fairly extra rare in 2025/26, he has issued a well timed reminder within the final two league video games as to why he has been such an vital a part of Arteta’s squad.

The hope now for Trossard is that, like Ramsey, he can finish his time on the Emirates with some silverware. In the event that they go on to raise the Premier League title in two weeks time, they might properly have that objective to thank.