This summer, Arsenal had 10 players participating in the World Cup, if you include new signing Lucas Torreira, so let’s take a look at how they all got on.

Many of Arsenal’s stars missed out on the tournament for one reason or another, particularly the likes of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Aaron Ramsey and Henrikh Mkhitaryan whose countries simply didn’t qualify.

Then there were those who were injured, notably Laurent Koscielny, and those who didn’t get the call up despite regular international participation in the past, like Shkodran Mustafi and Alexandre Lacazette.

Of the lucky few that did make the tournament though, how did it all go?

Joel Campbell (Costa Rica) 7

Costa Rica really didn’t have a good tournament at all, only picking up one point in the group stage. However, individually Campbell did pretty well. Returning from injury, he only made one start, and played 23 minutes of another match, but he still provided an assist for one goal and won a penalty for another.

He was undoubtedly Costa Rica’s man of the match against Switzerland, and it makes you wonder if they might’ve done better if he’d started the other matches too. Unfortunately he didn’t, or his rating might’ve been higher here.

Mohamed Elneny (Egypt) 5

Elneny’s performances were more representative of his country’s overall showing at the tournament. They couldn’t get going in Russia, and Elneny started all three of Egypt’s defeats to Uruguay, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

Funnily enough, his best performance was probably against the best of the three teams, Uruguay. After that he couldn’t make anything happen against the lower-ranked countries.

Stephan Lichtsteiner (Switzerland) 7.5

Signing for Arsenal just before the tournament, Lichtsteiner impressed fans with his committed performances against tough opposition. He did particularly well to help keep Brazil to just one goal despite facing the likes of Neymar.

In the end, Switzerland got knocked out in the only match Lichtsteiner didnt play, as he picked up a yellow card suspension before the game against Sweden.

Nacho Monreal (Spain) N/A

Monreal didn’t play a single minute for Spain, so at least he’ll come back to Arsenal well-rested.

David Ospina (Colombia) 7

Ospina had a good tournament overall, with a couple of disappointing moments thrown in as you’d expect. He kept clean sheets against Poland and Senegal, only conceded one goal in 120 minutes against England (a penalty) and then saved Henderson’s spot kick in the shootout.

He couldn’t get a strong hand on Eric Dier’s winner, but you can hardly blame him for that. It’s fair to question his performance in the defeat to Japan though, particularly his trademark panic from a corner, which led to the winning goal.

Danny Welbeck (England) 5

Welbeck only played 11 minutes of England’s run to the semi-final, and it was in a group game that the team didn’t even really want to win. He had one shot on target, one poor miss and completed the only pass he attempted. Hard to draw many conclusions from that.

Granit Xhaka (Switzerland) 7

Xhaka had a very underrated tournament, mostly as a result of a load of disparaging comments from Phil Neville when Switzerland went out in the last-16. Before that he was very good, particularly in the match against Serbia where he was one of the stars of the show, and scored one of the goals of the tournament.

After a strong group stage, it’s fair to say he wasn’t as good against Sweden, even if Neville took it way too far. Hopefully he’ll arrive back in England with his new contract and a desire to prove the critics wrong.

Lucas Torreira (Uruguay) 9

Torreira was fantastic for Uruguay, and worked his way into a few teams of the tournament as a result of his efforts. It was a particularly impressive feat given he wasn’t even a starter in his country’s first game, but did so well after that he became undroppable.

The highlight of the tournament came against Portugal, where he shut down Cristiano Ronaldo so effectively. Eventually Uruguay were eliminated against the eventual winners, France, but even then Torreira was his country’s top performer. He can certainly hold his head high and enjoy his holiday back home, before joining up with Arsenal.

Alex Iwobi (Nigeria) 5

This was a tournament to forget for Iwobi. He played the first 62 minutes against Croatia, but never managed to get going against the competition’s runners-up. After that, he didn’t play again until the final minute against Argentina, as his country got knocked out.

Mesut Özil (Germany) 6.5

Germany were terrible in Russia, and Özil took the blame. On the pitch, he wasn’t quite at the top of his game, but still created 11 chances in just two matches. The criticism of his performances all stemmed from what was happening off the pitch though, with media controversy over his photo with Erdogan.

He could’ve done better in a challenge in the build up to Mexico’s goal, though why he was the one covering instead of one of Germany’s defenders or central midfielders, I’m not sure. Other than that he generally did what he was supposed to do, creating chances, and was let down by Mats Hummels and Timo Werner in particular.