‘He reminds me of him’ – Gary Neville likens Arsenal starlet Myles Lewis-Skelly to Man Utd legend

Gary Neville has heaped praise connected Myles Lewis-Skelly pursuing Arsenal’s 5-1 triumph implicit Manchester City, comparing the youngster to his erstwhile Manchester United team-mate Patrice Evra.

Lewis-Skelly, 18, has enjoying a meteoric emergence to stardom this season, establishing himself arsenic a first-team regular for his boyhood club, alongside Ethan Nwaneri, successful the abstraction of conscionable six months.

Last play the versatile youngster produced arguably his finest show yet arsenic the Gunners swept past champions Manchester City astatine successful beforehand of a rapturous Emirates crowd.

While Erling Haaland cancelled retired Martin Odegaard’s opener to resistance the visitors backmost into the game, a flurry of second-half goals from Thomas Partey, Lewis-Skelly, Kai Havertz and Nwaneri sealed Arsenal an emphatic victory.

Lewis-Skelly’s 62nd-minute onslaught was his archetypal successful elder shot and the teen intelligibly enjoyed the moment, adjacent imitating Haaland’s trademark celebration, seemingly successful effect to their clash successful September.

The effect enactment a nine-point spread betwixt second-placed Arsenal and City successful the Premier League array and Mikel Arteta’s men volition look to prime up wherever they near disconnected distant to Leicester connected Saturday.

‘Seeing Manchester City dismantled successful that last fractional an hr and autumn to pieces similar that, I’ve ne'er seen that hap to a Pep Guardiola squad truthful dramatically, successful specified a abbreviated play of time,’ ex-Manchester United and England right-back Neville told the It’s Called Soccer podcast.

‘That was the infinitesimal of the week, determination was truthful overmuch happening successful that game.

‘It was disappointing for 30 to 40 minutes and past it conscionable came alive.

‘It became electrical aboriginal on.’

In the days that person followed, Lewis-Skelly has faced immoderate disapproval for his prime of celebration, with the likes of Joe Cole and Jason Cundy informing the teen it could travel backmost to wound him successful the future.

Neville was little than impressed with Gabriel Magalhaes’ behaviour successful northbound London, but felt Lewis-Skelly was good wrong his rights to observe however helium saw fit.

‘It looked similar it had been acceptable up with the remainder of the players successful the squad, didn’t it? It looked similar thing that had been pre-planned and preprepared,’ Neville added.

‘I didn’t truly announcement it successful commentary. It got mentioned to america that it was Haaland-like, the celebration, but I didn’t deliberation thing of it astatine each really. That didn’t truly bug maine that much.

‘What decidedly did bug maine was the Gabriel and Haaland 1 wherever helium screams successful his face. I don’t deliberation that’s called for.

‘Lewis-Skelly, for me, was okay. I don’t deliberation that the Gabriel 1 was. I can’t truly person a spell astatine lads erstwhile they’re going for it, they’re passionate and they get carried away.

‘I get the information that you whitethorn not privation a young subordinate to get carried distant but I don’t deliberation that was truthful overmuch getting carried away.’

When Lewis-Skelly archetypal broke into Arteta’s first-team, Neville likened the Hale End academy merchandise to legendary ex- Arsenal and Chelsea full-back Ashley Cole.

But watching Lewis-Skelly’s show past weekend, helium was reminded of Evra, his long-time team-mate astatine Old Trafford.

‘I conscionable privation to close 1 thing. I said Ashley Cole connected Sunday astir Lewis-Skelly erstwhile helium burst onto the scene,’ helium continued.

‘But the benignant of play of Lewis-Skelly, successful presumption of however helium runs with the ball, is precisely similar Patrice Evra.

‘Patrice Evra utilized to get the shot connected the half-turn and spell past people. People would bang him and he’d thrust the challenge, spell past them and you would think: “How’s helium done that?!”

‘I deliberation erstwhile helium dribbles with the shot and helium passes and helium works his mode into those wrong positions, Patrice Evra was the precise champion astatine that I’ve seen successful presumption of that underlap and being successful those near channels, helium was unbelievable astatine it.

‘When he’s connected the shot helium does punctual maine a batch of Patrice.’

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