The international break is finally over and club football is set to return this weekend as Arsenal take on Tottenham Hotspur in the North London Derby.
It's been a mixed couple of weeks from an Arsenal perspective who saw their England players in particular grapple with Gareth Southgate 's controversial decisions. Ben White was left out of the squad all together, while Aaron Ramsdale was included but strangely failed to play a minute and Bukayo Saka started the Nations League match against Italy at left wing back before enjoying an impressive cameo in his preferred right wing position against Germany.
Elsewhere Martin Odegaard returned from a calf injury that kept him out of the win over Brentford to play in both matches for Norway but there are fitness concerns over some of the other members of the squad. Kieran Tireney, Thomas Partey and Takehiro Tomiyasu all left international duty early, while Oleksandr Zinchenko was not fit enough to travel away in the first place. All four players' fitness issues were spoken about in football.london 's new The Arsenal Way podcast.
