The 33-year-old Alexandre Lacazette is vindicating the importance of veteran goalscorers in the big leagues. On Sunday, he scored a hat-trick against Nice on matchday 13 of Ligue 1 to reach the milestone of 150 goals in the French top flight and even surpassed it with one more.

When Mikel Arteta joined Arsenal, he made quite a few changes that involved departures of important players. Within three years of his arrival, Alexandre Lacazette, who had joined from Olympique Lyon in the summer of 2017 for €53 million, returned to France as a free agent.

After three seasons since then, the decision could not have worked out better for the striker, who, on Sunday, celebrated the 7th 'hat trick' of his career.