Paul Merson has warned Mikel Arteta despite Gabriel Jesus' blistering form this week, the Brazilian is not showing the signs of a striker capable of scoring 'simple' goals.
Jesus was reinstated for the Gunners' Carabao Cup quarter-final on Wednesday, scoring a hat-trick against Crystal Palace to help his team make the semi-finals of the competition.
Mikel Arteta then took his team to Selhurst Park to face the same opponent, this time in the Premier League, with little option but to start his No.9 once more.
The manager was repaid in full with two more goals in the opening 15 minutes of a 5-1 victory. For his first, the ball dropped kindly and he obliged by slamming into the bottom left corner, then his second to restore the lead was blasted into the top-right corner from Thomas Partey's knockdown at a corner.
Merson was extremely complimentary of the player who before kick-off he had said 'was not the answer' to Arsenal's goalscoring issues. However, he also picked up on one other moment he says will have Arteta losing sleep.
That moment came in the build-up to Gabriel Martinelli's strike to make it 4-1 in the second half. The ball had initially been crossed to Jesus in the middle, only for him to fluff his attempt at a second hat-trick of the week.
"This would worry me really. This would probably worry Arteta. These are the bread and butters," the ex-Gunners hero commented.
"These are the ones, the simple ones. It’s weird really because he’s scored the five goals, he’s the kind of player that would stop that ball, throw a dummy and roll it in the corner. He’s probably anxious because he’s on his hat-trick. He should have took another touch."
Approaching the January transfer window it remains to be seen how the club acts towards attacking reinforcements.
Newcastle United's Alexander Isak - scorer of a hat-trick against Ipswich Town on Saturday - has been intensely linked with the cross-country switch, whilst Sporting CP's serial scorer Viktor Gyokeres is the other high-profile candidate linked with rectifying any issues.