Is Eze actually out of form, or just out of the XI?

According to Capital Sports, Eberechi Eze is going through a rough patch at Arsenal right now, the kind that gets picked apart on phone-ins and comment sections alike. For a player valued around €65m (per a June 2026 market snapshot) and brought in to add craft to Mikel Arteta's attack, any dip gets magnified fast.

But the figures being cited elsewhere for his season make the framing tricky. Eze is reported to have played just 130 minutes this term, with 0 goals, 0 assists, an expected goals figure of 0.04 and an expected assists figure of 0.1. Those aren't the numbers of a player in a slump. They're the numbers of a player who has barely been on the pitch, and they should be read as such: figures circulating in the data rather than a confirmed club or Premier League release.

Last season looked very different

Compare that to 2025/26, where the same kind of reporting has Eze down for 1,885 minutes, 7 goals and 3 assists, with an xG of 5.18 and xA of 2.66. He was getting into good areas regularly and finishing some of those chances. The season before that, 2024/25, the figures put him at 8 goals and 8 assists in 2,588 minutes. None of that reads like a player short on end product.

Eze hasn't lost his form. What's in question is whether he's lost his spot, and why. Arsenal sit second in the Premier League with 18 points from seven games (6W 0D 1L, goal difference +6) under Arteta, a run that points to a squad finding answers elsewhere in attack. A deep, well-paid forward line under a manager who rotates heavily can squeeze minutes for even a proven creator, and 130 minutes across a season is the kind of sample where small sample size does the talking, not form.

None of that rules out a genuine dip once he does get a consistent run. But right now the evidence points less at Eze struggling and more at Eze waiting for the minutes to show it either way.