Ian Wright singled out Granit Xhaka for reward after Arsenal’s victory over Brentford and says he was ‘proud’ to see 15-year-old Ethan Nwaneri function and make Premier League historical past.
The Gunners clinched their sixth win in seven top-flight video games this season as they beat Brentford 3-0 due to objectives from William Saliba, Gabriel Jesus and Fabio Vieira.
Mikel Arteta’s facet misplaced to Manchester United of their earlier Premier League fixture however returned to successful methods in west London to make sure they sit high of the desk going into the worldwide break.
Xhaka has been in excellent type this season and impressed once more in Sunday’s victory over Brentford, offering a superb cross for Jesus’ objective and customarily thwarting Thomas Frank’s facet.
Arsenal legend Wright advised BBC’s Match of the Day: ‘For me, Granit Xhaka is a participant that we’re lastly see play like he does for Switzerland.
‘He’s taking part in ready that fits him, taking part in extra offensively. He’s taking part in with actual authority and confidence.
‘Recently he’s been capable of finding house and from there he may be actually harmful as a result of, for me, he’s obtained simply the most effective left-foots within the Premier League.
‘It’s an incredible cross for the Jesus objective, it’s implausible. He can even do the defensive stuff, he will get again and get his foot in there.
‘He set the tempo for Arsenal off the ball. I’m actually happy for him as a result of I used to be considered one of his staunchest critics. However now we’re seeing one of the best of Granit Xhaka.’
Arsenal schoolboy Nwaneri turned the youngest participant in Premier League historical past when he got here on for a short cameo towards Brentford.
The 15-year-old, who was known as up for Arsenal first-team coaching for the primary time on Saturday, broke the file beforehand held by Harvey Elliott.
‘I’m so pleased with that for Arsenal,’ Wright added. ‘To get within the crew at that stage, some folks may suppose it’s a stunt, however these folks – Mikel, Per, Edu – should not placing him in there for a joke.
‘They’re not going to deliver folks in only for the sake of it. They suppose very extremely of him, he was taking part in for the U18s when he was 14.
‘What I feel this does is shipped a large message to the opposite academy gamers and exhibits them all of them have an opportunity of taking part in in that first crew.’
Arsenal boss Arteta has additionally mentioned Nwaneri’s slice of historical past, telling reporters: ‘It was a sense that I had yesterday, I don’t know why.
‘The primary day I met him I appeared him in his eyes and everybody was telling me about him, Per was telling me about him, and due to the accidents we solely have 12 or 13 senior gamers yesterday to place within the squad and we determined to deliver him, and that’s it.
‘It’s one step, one expertise, so take pleasure in it and congratulations! It’s only one step and all of the steps in your profession should not ahead and you need to know that.
‘You'll be able to go ahead then backwards after which forwards. You fall, you return – that’s, sadly, this business and the soccer profession of any participant.’
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