How have Arsenal turned things round after mid-season slump sans elite striker?

It was only a month ago that you couldn't move for someone saying Arsenal cannot compete with the big boys until they sign an elite No 9, but Saturday's 5-0 mauling of Burnley took their goal tally to 21 in just five games.

In the last five outings in the Premier League, Mikel Arteta's side have netted more than a third of their goals for the entire season in a blistering turn of events for a side that had only scored three or more on four occasions before the turn of the year.

Football is a game of recency bias, and of course now that they are firing on all cylinders the links with the likes of Ivan Toney are fading into the background - and they will surely return if the goals do indeed dry up.

It's also easy to forget that Manchester City won a Premier League without any striker, let alone one deemed not at the elite level. Granted, Arteta and Arsenal are not Pep Guardiola and City, but if the latter can do it, why not the former?

Whatever the reason, Arsenal are now the league's red hot side with goals flooding in from all over the pitch - but just how have the Gunners managed to turn things round from static performances in front of goal to the glut they're now producing in such a short space of time?

It seems to be one of those things that is becoming more and more a la mode in football these days, and there's simply nobody better at it than the Gunners.

Bukayo Saka's penalty on Saturday to make it 2-0 against a beleaguered Burnley was Arsenal's 24th set-piece goal of the season - the most they have ever managed in one campaign since records began (2004-05). It's still February.

Nicolas Jover - the man behind the mask - has picked up credit and acclaim this term for his work at Arsenal, having found a way to fine tune