Martin Keown believes that Ethan Nwaneri might be the person to greatest deputise for Bukayo Saka at Arsenal.
Saka is dealing with the prospect of being out till February after selecting up a hamstring harm towards Crystal Palace on the weekend.
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His harm will come as a giant blow, with talkSPORT reporter Ian Abrahams revealing on commentary responsibility that Saka seemed emotional as he walked in direction of the tunnel towards Crystal Palace, describing him as ‘distressed’.
A key participant for Mikel Arteta’s facet, the Gunners might be fearing the prospect of being with out the England star for greater than 5 weeks and with that, Arteta should discover a viable substitute to maintain their title cost on monitor.
However in keeping with Arsenal legend Keown, it is the membership’s 17-year-old sensation who might present a shock resolution.
Talking to talkSPORT.com, Keown mentioned: “I do not know of a participant that has created extra probabilities for his colleagues within the Premier League this season, so he is clearly going to be a extremely large miss.
“It is as much as somebody to step up, possibly [Ethan] Nwaneri, who has been taking part in within the [Martin] Odegaard position, possibly he might are available to the entrance line and provides us one thing totally different.
“Jesus has instantly scored 5 objectives in per week, that is been a very long time coming, so he must maintain that.
“But it surely’s in that closing third the place there wanted to be extra creativity and it might be much less now as you are dropping probably the greatest gamers within the Premier League.”
Nwaneri has performed for Arsenal 16 occasions this season, with simply three of these coming within the beginning lineup.
Nonetheless with 4 objectives to his title the 17-year-old has seemed greater than snug lining up the Gunners.
However changing Saka for Arsenal might be no simple activity.
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Offering an replace on the 23-year-old, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta informed reporters on Friday: “It’s not trying good. He might be out for a lot of weeks.”
Saka has been in unimaginable kind this season having scored 9 objectives and supplied 13 assists in 24 video games to date.
