​Arsenal ace Gabriel Jesus delighted to be playing number nine again | OneFootball

Arsenal star Gabriel Jesus has revealed that he is so happy to be playing as a centre-forward.

The Brazilian was used predominantly as a winger by Manchester City last season.

Jesus put in some excellent displays for Pep Guardiola's Premier League champions on the right-wing last term.

"Obviously, due to the circumstances that happened after the Cup, I ended up playing more at the winger in the Seleção and at City too. After the World Cup I thought that I couldn't play as a No.9," he told ESPN Brasil.

"I started playing much more on the wing at [Manchester] City and for Brazil. For a while I thought that. But I've changed my mentality, I believe much more in myself now. I'm smiling again playing football.

"I'm very blessed as I can play across all front three but I am a No.9. I am there to finish our chances. Not only that but to help the team as a whole. It's normal to pick up and think that you can't play with 9, that I'm a winger.

"I had this in my head for a long time. Now I have a different mind and I believe in myself much more.

"I went back to being the usual Gabriel, thinking that I'm 9, that I'm there to finish, to help, of course not just to score goals. I went back to being what I was before, a little like being a player on the floodplain. It is no longer that robot that used to be there."