Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is “fed up” with playing out wide under manager Mike Arteta, according to Andy Townsend.

The former ITV pundit says the body language from the 31-year-old in recent games has not looked good, and he believes the striker may well be frustrated with his lack of minutes as a centre forward this campaign:

“The skipper, looks to me like he’s got the hump and he’s fed up with being wide-left one minute, wide-right the next, maybe up the middle now and again. He’s probably thinking: ‘Hold on a minute, I’m the one that has just pen to paper on a new deal. I’m the main man, I’m your skipper. I’ve got more goals in me than anybody else in this club and yet I’m the one flicking it into the box for others to get on the end of it’.”

Here’s the thing. Aubameyang made 25 appearances as a winger for Arsenal last season and scored 20 goals. In his 18 games as a striker, he scored just nine. That shows you that his position on the pitch is not the issue.

The biggest problem at the moment is the lack of creativity. As we pointed out in our article yesterday, the forwards are simply not getting their shots away suggesting more work is needed to ensure the team can open up the opposition.

Arteta may have tightened things up at the back, to an extent, but it has come at the cost of goals at the other end of the pitch.