Gary Neville has warning for Arsenal star after what he saw against Man City

Arsenal thrashed Manchester City 5-1 connected Sunday and Gary Neville was mightily impressed by the show of Myles Lewis-Skelly, who he's urged to stay focused connected his football

Gary Neville hopes Myles Lewis-Skelly doesn't repetition mistakes made by different English starlets(Image: YouTube/Sky Sports Premier League)

Gary Neville has warned Myles Lewis-Skelly not to get "carried away" with off-field distractions aft his awesome show against Manchester City.

Arsenal were successful good signifier connected Sunday arsenic they thrashed City 5-1 astatine the Emirates Stadium, with 5 antithetic goalscorers uncovering the net. Lewis-Skelly was 1 of them, netting his side's 3rd with an arcing changeable that bushed Stefan Ortega successful the 62nd minute.

Following his classy extremity and all-round superb play against the existent Premier League champions, Neville has told the young defender to support his caput screwed connected successful the aboriginal successful bid to person a palmy career.

Speaking to Sky Sports post-match, the ex-Manchester United prima said: "I really mentioned Ashley Cole erstwhile helium archetypal came connected the scene, that's benignant of thing that conscionable catches your oculus and you deliberation 'oh, this is different' and Lewis-Skelly is different. He's got a agelong mode to go, don't get carried away, determination are tons of pitfalls retired there.

"You'll get wealth thrown astatine you, there'll beryllium distractions thrown astatine you, there'll beryllium tons of things that you'd similar to bash that you can't bash arsenic a young shot player. Forget it, you tin bash it erstwhile you're 35 - you've got 15 years successful beforehand of you, ore for 15 years connected doing this and doing it well. But watching him today, yea it was brilliant, I deliberation he's a bully defender. He's got a existent intent astir him."

The Gunners showed their intent for the rubric successful benignant astatine the weekend, with injuries to cardinal players similar Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus showing nary interaction successful however they took the crippled to City passim the afloat 90 minutes. In fact, Neville made immoderate parallels betwixt Saka and Lewis-Skelly, adding that the full-back plays with a state akin to the England international.

He said: "There's different subordinate that we saw successful the basal who I deliberation each clip I ticker him play it's an implicit joyousness and that's Saka. You cannot travel and ticker Bukayo Saka play shot without feeling enthusiastic astir the crippled - you can't, due to the fact that everything helium does is similar he's playing shot connected the streets arsenic a kid astatine the property of seven.

Myles Lewis-Skelly has been a superb plus to Arsenal truthful far(Image: Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

"The cynicism hasn't entered the crippled yet, the cynicism of going down, the cynicism of recycling the ball. The risks successful the game, their enthusiasm, their passionateness is everything you privation successful a shot crippled - the tenacity, ne'er ever suffer that.

"If you tin play each crippled of shot similar it was the archetypal clip you ever played, that is really an accomplishment successful beingness wherever you support that benignant of emotion for the crippled and that joyousness and quality to conscionable support doing the things you are doing.

"You spot truthful galore players alteration their crippled erstwhile they marque it and alteration their crippled erstwhile they person 100 games nether the belt, and 200 games, and Saka has ne'er changed from the infinitesimal he's got into this Arsenal team, helium deed the crushed moving - and Lewis-Skelly is the same."

Arsenal fans volition beryllium hoping that Lewis-Skelly and the remainder of the squad support their winning ways up for the remainder of February arsenic they caput to St James' Park to look Newcastle United successful the Carabao Cup semi-final 2nd limb connected Wednesday needing to overturn a 2-0 shortage to scope Wembley.

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