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Mikel Arteta should unleash ‘unbelievable’ Arsenal youngster vs Atalanta in the Champions League
After beating Tottenham Hotspur with a depleted squad last weekend, Arsenal now face two more crucial away trips on Thursday and Sunday.
Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal side will travel to Bergamo to face Atalanta in the Champio⭕ns League on Thꦆursday – a day previously reserved for the club’s unwelcome Europa League trips.
Then it will be a quick turnaround to return to London before embarking o🐲n a third away game in the space of seven days for the Gun♋ners.
Fortunately, Arsenal anticipated this kind of schedule in the summer, and made stellar attemptsဣ to improve Arteta’s squad depth, si🅘gning the likes of Riccardo Calafiori and Mikel Merino.
But with both missing and other injuries cropping up in the squad, Arsenal will once again need to be moꦓre creative with their remedies this week.
Ethan Nwaneri ready for his full Arsenal debut in the Champions League
Ahead of Arsena🧔l’s trip to Ita🦄ly, Jorginho has described Atalanta as a ‘very physical’ side, a team he knows well from his time in the Serie A.
Therefore, some may not consider it the perfect time for Ethan Nwaneri t൩o make his first start for Arsenal, after all, he’s only 17-years-old🐎.
That being said, those who watched theꦜ North London derby and have been following Nwaneri’s progress know that he’s an exception to the rule.
Despite his age and experience, Nwaneri had the aura of a top, top player in his brief cameo against Tottenham, a player a🌺lready equipped to cope in tricky situations.
And with Declan Rice back to play alongside either Jorginho or Thomas Partey as the six, Nwaneri is p⭕erfectly suited to꧑ the number 10 role.
Arsenal were right to sell Emile Smith Rowe this summer
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Nwaneri has been ‘unbelievable’ eve💙ry time he’s touched a football of late, be it for Arsenal or England’s youth sides, he’s always scoring or making an impact.
And after some careful preparation since his Premier League debut two years ago, Nwaneri is evident🌸ly rea🍌dy to make his first team breakthrough.
Emile Smith Rowe is excelling since he left Aꦦrsena⭕l, a depart♌ure which some of the 🍌club’s supporters may still question.
However, both Edu and Arteta will have been aware of Nwaneri’s exceptional potential, a talent ready to go beyond Smith Rowe in Nor🥂th London.
It’s important not to set the expectation too high for Nwaneri, but it seems 𓆏as if he can handle the presꦿsure regardless.