In an interview with Sky Sports, Mikel Arteta said about Bukayo Saka: "We talk about physicality, we talk about spirit, we talk about technique. But the brain is the one that makes all the decisions.
"B' makes a lot of good decisions because he is such an intelligent player who can read situations. After that, of course, he has the ability to execute them the right way and that's obviously a big quality.
"It took me a while to figure him out. That's why I tried to play him in different positions, to see how he reacted."
The Arsenal boss continued: "I wanted to test his character as well because he was playing as a left-back and I know it wasn't his ideal position but he had to go through that period.
"We've seen how he can affect the game more and be a real threat. He has the quality to decide a football match.
"When you have that, you need to try to get the right position for him to be decisive as much as possible because then the team will be closer to winning more football matches."
Arteta isn't wrong - Saka was at his lethal best in the 4-0 rout of Slavia Praha in the Europa League recently.
Despite Kieran Tierney's injury, it now makes sense to keep playing the 19-year-old further up the pitch. After all, Granit Xhaka is doing quite well at left-back!
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