Bukayo Saka has missed out on BBC's 2022/23 Premier League Team of the Season with William Saliba and Martin Odegaard making the cut.
On the Frenchman, pundit Garth Crooks said: "The loss through injury of Saliba almost certainly cost Arsenal the title. The games against Southampton and West Ham were ones the Gunners would have won under normal circumstances.
"But these were fixtures fuelled with pressure and expectation and Arsenal's defence buckled under the weight of them. Saliba came into the Arsenal side in the early part of their campaign he looked immense.
"The bigger the game the more composed he appeared. The impact of the Frenchman's injury to Arsenal's title chances was there for all to see and they simply had no-one in their ranks good enough to replace him."
On Norwegian, he added: "For so much of this season Arsenal looked like they were going to make it. The reason they appeared so convincing was due to their captain Odegaard. The Norwegian playmaker brought a calm sophistication to the Gunners' performances.
"He clearly talked some sense into Granit Xhaka, who was no longer wanting to fight everyone and suddenly was looking like a player who was engaged, like the rest of his team-mates, in winning the title. Sadly for Arsenal they ran out of steam."
BBC's 2022/23 Premier League Team of the Season:
