William Saliba thanked ‘legend’ Martin Keown after the previous Arsenal ace sung the Frenchman’s praises following his efficiency within the membership’s 2-0 win towards Crystal Palace.
The 21-year-old joined the membership in 2019 however he needed to wait till Friday night time to make his debut for the membership, following mortgage spells with Saint-Etienne, Good and Marseille.
There was a lot confusion over the watch for Saliba’s debut, with followers baffled as to why the Frenchman hasn’t been utilised beneath Mikel Arteta.
Arteta, for his half, has at all times maintained that – in time – Saliba would show to be an Arsenal common.
He had the possibility to stake his declare on Friday and Saliba took his alternative, with Keown naming the Frenchman the Man of the Match.
‘Saliba – the fella’s been at Arsenal now for 3 years and it’s the primary time we’ve seen him,’ Keown informed TalkSPORT.
‘I believe he ought to take a bow often because he deserved a chance far prior to he acquired tonight.
‘If it was me given the selection, I’d go along with Saliba for Man of the Match.
‘I imply they paid £50million for Ben White and Ben White’s having to play right-back as a result of clearly the supervisor’s seen one thing on this participant in pre-season, and why not?
‘I believe truly it’s paid off and now we do have actual competitors in that central defensive place.’
It was a efficiency value ready for from Saliba and the Frenchman was buoyed to listen to Keown’s reward of him after the match.
Advised about Keown’s reward on TalkSPORT, Saliba responded: ‘Thanks to the legend!
‘Generally we don’t have considering time, we have now to react, so I take pleasure in tackles and I made an enormous one…
‘We knew it might be a troublesome sport however we stayed sturdy and focussed till the top.
‘We defend collectively and we conceded some events. We nonetheless completed with the [clean] sheet.’
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