Former Arsenal London defender Lauren commented on the role of Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Zinchenko in the game of his former team.
"Zinchenko is great. Arteta clearly has a strategy that he wants to implement with the current set of Arsenal players, dominating the middle of the field. And his charges are successfully implementing this idea so far.
But the role of Zinchenko in this implementation can not be called something revolutionary, because earlier we saw something similar in the performance of Philipp Lahm at Bayern. Instead of playing solely as a right-back, he also shifted to the center to create a numerical advantage there. I said the same thing about Joao Cancelo a few years ago.
So it is not a revolution, but Zinchenko really is a key player for Arsenal now, and his qualities have allowed Arsenal to dominate in the middle of the field this season.
At the same time, Zinchenko's actions on the field provide opportunities in attack for Granit Jaki and Thomas Partee. In short, everyone in this Arsenal works as a unit, and that allows the team to be so strong this season," talkSPORT quotes Loren as saying.