Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta was able to experiment in Wednesday night’s Champions League encounter with PSV Eindhoven.
The Gunners were already 7-1 up from the last-16 first leg, meaning the second leg was effectively a formality.
Oleksandr Zinchenko, playing in midfield, opened the scoring after just six minutes, though Ivan Perisic equalised for PSV in the 18th minute.
Zinchenko, speaking to TNT Sports, revealed that he could now see just how much running the likes of Rice and Odegaard have to do every game, sometimes every three days.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a completely new position, because all my life I was playing there and especially also in the national team I used to play a lot over there,” said Zinchenko.
“But obviously at this high level at Arsenal, it’s different demands.
“At half-time, I just said to the lads, Martin and Declan, I said ‘unbelievable how much… now I realize how much you guys are running every three days’, so this is the level.”
Zinchenko has been linked with a move away from the Emirates Stadium for a number of months now.
The Ukraine international has slipped down the pecking order at left-back, with Riccardo Calafiori, Myles Lewis-Skelly and even Jakub Kiwior ahead of him.
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