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Micah Richards has now named two Arsenal players he believed Mikel Arteta should have played from the beginning against Aston Villa. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, as they say, but it does seem as if Mikel Arteta made some peculiar choices in his Arsenal line up yesterday. In comparison to the Bayern Munich line up last Tuesday, which surely has to be considered the club’s strongest XI right now, Arteta made three changes to his team. Jakub Kiwior, Jorginho and Gabriel Martinelli all dropped out, being replaced by Oleksandr Zinchenko, Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Jesus. Jesus in particular wa…