Arsenal's Kieran Tierney has admitted he was 'gutted' that Mikel Arteta decided to drop him for their clash with Liverpool last weekend.
The Scotland international has been the Gunners' first-choice full-back in recent years but has seen his place come under threat to Oleksandr Zinchenko and Takehiro Tomiyasu this season.
And after being dropped in place of Tomiyasu - who is typically a right-back and not a left-back like Tierney - the defender revealed all about the 'tough' situation.
Speaking to Football Daily, Tierney said: 'I was thinking that I got taken off in the Thursday game maybe to keep me for ready for the Sunday - and maybe that at the time was his plan as well.