Ethan Nwaneri was given some minutes in Arsenal’s win against Leicester City this afternoon, and he delivered an impressive cameo.
The youngster had scored two goals in the Gunners’ midweek League Cup match against Bolton.
His performance in that game has made it difficult to justify leaving him out, despite him being just 17 years old.
Arteta brought him on when Arsenal was searching for a winner, with the game tied at 2-2.
Nwaneri showed quick feet and caused problems for Leicester as Arsenal continued to pepper their goal.
The Gunners eventually scored twice late in the game, and Arteta was impressed with Nwaneri’s impactful cameo.
He said in his post-match presser, as quoted by Fabrizio Romano:
“He came on and immediately beat one, two, three players. I just love it!.
“If you want to play here you need to play with that courage.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Nwaneri will soon begin starting many games for us, and he is working hard to get those game times.
If he continues to impress in the few minutes that he gets, it will be difficult to leave him out of matches in the near future.
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Let him continue to get moments, before we throw him into full PL games.
Great start for him, looks to have something to his game. Perhaps he can solve our backup for Odegaard issue going forward, and play his way into the rotation and competition.
Yamela is 16.5yrs and yet plays regularly for Barca and Spain. Age shouldn’t be an issue.
This league can be quite brutal, as we’ve seen in the past. As things stand, we don’t need to push him into the first team as we have a very good side with other options – it would be best to take things slow to reduce risk, while also involving him and allowing him to build experience so that when he really is needed, he’ll be ready to go.
Let’s give Ethan more game time especially in the PL matches to further build his confidence and fitness, it’ll help in a very great inclusion.
So far, so good in EN’s development and he appears to have the necessary maturity to handle coming on at such an important time
I can’t wait for the upcoming cup matches. Thats where he will be able to showcase.
Nwaneri is such a revelation! While wishing him the best, he needs to get consistent minutes without till he builds the experience to handle the big games! Hail Hale Enders!
The boy (Ethan) has the skills set to succeed at Arsenal. I like his fearlessness to take players on. He’s certainly one to watch. I’m impressed.
Like Yamal of Barca,he will soon take the centre stage for arsenal,I love what I saw about him so far. I am happy he was not sold like we did with Martin Obi.
Chido Obi-Martin wasnt sold being an academy work-in-progress.
The chap was misled into abruptly cutting ties with AR5EN4L with the hope of jumping on board the first team at Man It’d having been offered 3ce his stipend at Hale End.
The obligation of ManUtd in this is to pay a compensation for his tutelage at AR5EN4L
I really love that lad I wish arteta gives him mins in every game to improve him more