He Arsenal, current champion of the FA
Cup, began his defense of the title last Saturday with a very close victory against the Newcastle (2-0) of Steve
Bruce, in a match in which he did not manage to get ahead on the scoreboard until the second part of extra time.
Once the qualification for the round of 32 has been achieved, Mikel
Arteta He went to a press conference and spoke, among other things, of the most immediate future of the young English striker, Eddie
Nketiah.
Big impact last season
The youth squad ‘gunner’ was one of the sensations of the Arsenal last season. After a six-month loan to the Leeds
United, Nketiah He returned to London in January and played a total of 13 games with the 'gunboats', starting seven of them and scoring two.
This season, his prominence has been declining and after the departure of Sebastien
Haller of the West
Ham heading to Ajax, Nketiah appeared in some pools as a possible replacement for the Frenchman up front ‘hammer’. A possibility that he totally ruled out Arteta: “No”, was the concise and forceful answer of the Basque technician to a journalist who asked him about the possibility that Nketiah comes out in january.
Although he has only been from the game in three games of Premier
League this season, Nketiah is being an important man for Arteta in the Europe
League, competition in which the six matches of a first phase that the Arsenal He has finished undefeated as a starter and in which he has already seen the door three times.