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Despite being rooted to the bottom of the Premier League at the start of September, Arsenal are now in the driving seat for a place in the top four under Mikel Arteta.

Arsenal are one point ahead of Manchester United who are battling the Gunners for the final Champions League spot, but Arteta's side have three games in hand.

The Gunners have seen a major turn of form and a vast improvement after Arteta's six summer signings started to gel at the Emirates, even though no new faces were brought in during the January transfer window.

And three stars have been identified as Arteta's crucial men amid a new "foundation" at the club.

Arsenal's 2-0 win against Leicester kept up an impressive winning run under Arteta, as the Gunners have taken maximum points from their last five Premier League matches to maintain their charge for the top four.

Attacking stars such as Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Martin Odegaard and Alexandre Lacazette continue to dominate the headlines, but it's some or Arsenal's more defensive assets that have been singled out for assisting the Gunners' rise.

That's according to Micah Richards, who thinks that centre-back pairing Ben White and Gabriel Magalhaes have been integral to