With just over 20 minutes to go at the Emirates, and with Arsenal already cruising at 2-0 against a blunt Dinamo Zagreb, Arsène Wenger made his first substitution. As the board flashed it became clear the player coming off was not, as expected, Alexis Sánchez, the Premier League’s most overworked attacking whirl, a man who has been cheerfully buzzing his way through the dreaded “red zone” for the last two months, and who has now played 90 minutes seven times in four different countries in the last seven weeks. Instead it was Olivier Giroud who departed. Sánchez, who had already scored one and made one, took his place up front. There are players who might have let...
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