If Arsenal do go on to win the Premier League title then Declan Rice should probably win Player of the Year. If it’s Manchester City, then it will be hard to look past Erling Haaland.
Haaland, though, will probably finish out the season without experiencing the misery Rice must have suffered in the middle part of this north London derby on Sunday.
In the build-up to the game, Rice had done an interview with Sky where he spoke of his admiration for Steven Gerrard. Rather than trying to specialise in any one area of midfield play, Rice aims to become the best all-round midfielder in the game, as Gerrard was for a few years.
Yet in this high-pressure derby, Rice looked to have re-enacted Gerrard’s worst moment. When Eberechi…