Three Things We Learned From Arsenal 3-0 Nottingham Forest 

After four Premier League games without a win, Arsenal returned to winning ways with a comprehensive victory over high flying Forest ahead of the trip to Portugal to take on Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League

Here are three things that stood out for the Gooner Fanzine's print writer Ian Mills.

 1 - Odegaard and Saka on the same wavelength and a different planet 

When our mercurial Skipper played a wonderful ball to Bukayo to set him up for our first goal you just had the feeling this was going to be our day.

We have a team of very fine footballers but to my mind this pair are our most talented and most important. We have badly missed Odegaard’s creativity and in this game, he was back at the heartbeat of the side pulling every creative string imaginable.

As for Saka, his goal threat is unmatched by anyone else in our squad, he scored a brilliant first and was denied a second before half time thanks to a quite magnificent save. Just after half time, he teed up Thomas Partey for a tremendous strike to double our lead, Saka’s eighth Premier League assist already – more than anyone else in the League.

When the two of them are in this kind of form they are not only a joy to watch they are also capable of inspiring this team to go on the sort of run required to try to catch Liverpool.

2 - Making full use of our squad 

Having shown on numerous occasions an unwillingness to rest key personnel whilst allowing squad players more playing time, Mikel Arteta went against the grain here by naming a starting eleven that had many Gooners scratching their heads prior to kick off as to whether it would be good enough to earn all three points.

As it turned out, this was arguably our best home performance of the campaign so far and we had the luxury of allowing the likes of Declan Rice, Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz the afternoon off so as to keep them fresh for Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday.

There are three games a week now well into the New Year, so everyone is going to be required to play their part. The pick of the squad players was undoubtedly Ethan Nwaneri who had already had a great run and shot which just went past the post before he collected Raheem Sterling’s cross to net his first Premier League goal for the club, becoming the second youngest Premier League scorer for Arsenal after Cesc Fabregas.

3 - It was a good day for club’s statistics 

This was Arteta’s 250th game in charge and the Gunners’ 2000th top flight win, only Liverpool have won more top Division games in League history.