It has certainly been an eventful week around Arsenal.
Two games in three days gave youngsters and senior players a chance to stake their claim whilst Unai Emery's puzzles in terms of solving his defence went on despite keeping a clean sheet against Eintracht Frankfurt.
That game had been less convincing a win than the 3-0 scoreline suggested but it was nothing on the thrill ride that Arsenal and Aston Villa offered in a game where the visitors twice led before Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang snatched victory for the Gunners at the Emirates Stadium.
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25. Konstantinos Mavropanos
Last week: 23rd
24. Shkodran Mustafi
Last week: 24th - Moves off the bottom of our rankings for the first time this season as reward for a solid, composed display against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League.
It will take quite a few more of them before Mustafi becomes a serious contender for Emery again but this was at least a step in the right direction.
23. Emiliano Martinez
Last week: 22nd
22. Gabriel Martinelli
Last week: 20th
21. Emile Smith Rowe
Last week: 19th
20. Reiss Nelson
Last week: 18th
19. Mesut Ozil
Last week: 11th - The most puzzling player in the Arsenal squad continues to attract the sort of attention that no other player with just 71 minutes of senior football to his name this season could dream of.
It is abundantly clear once more that Ozil simply does not fit into Emery's plans for Arsenal. There will still be occasions when the club's best-paid player is of use to the head coach but it is clear the Spaniard will not compromise to fit the playmaker in even if sometimes that might give him an easier ride.
For instance it seemed inevitable that Ozil would start against Aston Villa after being left behind when Arsenal travelled to Frankfurt. Emery did not so much as turn to him even when chasing the game having handed Bukayo Saka a start instead.
It might feel like a further indignity foisted upon Ozil to start him against Nottingham Forest in the EFL Cup but it should not be ruled out.
18. Calum Chambers
Last week: 21st
17. Sead Kolasinac
Last week: 17th
16. Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Last week: 16th
15. David Luiz
Last week: 15th
14. Bukayo Saka
Last week: New entry - As the youngster is not officially part of Unai Emery's first team squad just yet we had not yet included him in our power rankings but how could he be denied after the week he has enjoyed.
Even though it ended in somewhat disappointing fashion when he was sacrificed to make room for Calum Chambers after Ainsley Maitland-Niles' red card on Sunday Saka had made his mark 72 hours earlier with a searing display in the Commerzbank Arena, tearing through Eintracht Frankfurt's defence on his way to a goal and two assists.
There is a real buzz around Arsenal about the promise of Saka, considered the best of the young crop emerging from Hale End, not just for his performances on the pitch but for his confidence off it. Nothing seems to faze this 18-year-old and he is sure to be a regular in the upper echelons of these rankings for years to come.
13. Joe Willock
Last week: 14th
12. Rob Holding
Last week: 13th
11. Kieran Tierney
Last week: 10th
10. Sokratis Papasthopoulos
Last week: 9th
9. Dani Ceballos
Last week: 8th
8. Lucas Torreira
Last week: 5th
7. Granit Xhaka
Last week: 12th - This should not be taken as indicative of performance. Frankly Xhaka has not been up to the standards Arsenal are entitled to expect of him this season. But these power rankings also reflect the importance Emery places on each player and there simply can be no doubting the regard the Swiss midfielder is held in.
"I am not asking the people to support him but I am sure that he is going to achieve the best thing individually and collectively for the supporters to help him," Emery said after Xhaka was booed off the field in the 3-2 win over Aston Villa.
"I am going to support him. I am also going to decide when he can play and when not but he’s an important player with his commitment and his behaviour is great."
Emery certainly heard the hostile reception Xhaka got but do not expect that to change the central role he has for his likely club captain.
6. Hector Bellerin
Last week: 7th
5. Nicolas Pepe
Last week: 6th
4. Bernd Leno
Last week: 4th - This has been a puzzling start to the season for Leno. The German has certainly been kept busy and it is tempting to wonder how bad things might have been for Arsenal if he had not made a few more saves from the string of shots he has faced on his goal.
However he does not exude the same aura of invincibility that other top Premier League goalkeepers do. It is difficult to be sure why that is: do Ederson and Alisson look so secure because their defence ahead of them inspires confidence or does their attitude mean defenders raise their game?
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle and you would like to see Leno impose himself on the Arsenal defence with a degree more verbal leadership if those ahead of him are to become less error-prone.
3. Alexandre Lacazette
Last week: 2nd
2. Matteo Guendouzi
Last week: 3rd
1. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Last week: 1st - It becomes more challenging by the week to come up with superlatives for Aubameyang, surely the best striker in the Premier League and arguably the most important figure in any of the top six sides.
Remove his six goals and an assist from the equation and Arsenal would likely be languishing in mid-table rather than be ensconced in the top four. It is not just about the sheer weight of output with Aubameyang however. He is a consummate team player.
Putting his trust in Pepe to take the spot kick when Arsenal needed an equaliser against Aston Villa was an impressive display of leadership that rightly earned him praise from Emery and when the game was there to be won from a free-kick you simply knew that Aubameyang would come through.
