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Teams have worked us out now and without the likes of Odegaard and Saka, we look completely lost. Arteta also looked like he was lost on the touchline on Saturday and out of ideas.
This is fairly normal though that when key players are missing, teams will skip a beat.
Manchester City's record in recent seasons has lulled people into thinking when key players are missing, the 'system' will still prevail. City's case is unique because of the unusual amount of depth they had particularly with forward/creative players. It's not often you've the luxury or the ability to keep players that are good enough to start for the majority of PL sides, content enough to have a sort of squad/rotation role until a key man goes down.
Chelsea probably rival that level of depth now with their squad. In normal situations, the drop off in quality is usually steep when a key player is unavailable.