Mikel Arteta sent Ethan Nwaneri message after Arsenal Champions League snub

Ian Wright wanted to spot Ethan Nwaneri get a bigger cameo successful Arsenal's 2-0 decision by Bournemouth, admitting that the Gunners needed idiosyncratic of his ilk connected the pitch

Ian Wright insisted that Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta should person brought connected Ethan Nwaneri earlier against Bournemouth, claiming the teenager's abilities were missed successful the daze loss.

The Gunners suffered their archetypal decision of the play past Saturday erstwhile they were bested 2-0 by the Cherries, courtesy of goals from Ryan Christie and Justin Kluivert.

The northbound London nine were down to 10 men successful the archetypal fractional aft William Saliba was shown a consecutive reddish paper successful the 30th minute for bringing down Evanilson, who looked to beryllium done connected goal.

Raheem Sterling was the unfortunate subordinate to beryllium sacrificed, with Arteta taking disconnected the winger for defender Jakub Kiwior. As a result, Arsenal fielded 4 centre-backs and 3 holding midfielders with an evident deficiency of creativity successful midfield.

Speaking connected the Stick to Football podcast, Wright questioned wherefore Nwaneri, 17, wasn't substituted connected earlier, having been introduced successful the 81st infinitesimal of the crippled erstwhile they were already 2-0 down.

"When I saw [Mikel] Merino, [Thomas] Partey and [Declan] Rice – I was reasoning [Ethan] Nwaneri, the youngster," the Arsenal fable said. "Against Bournemouth, you request idiosyncratic who tin bash thing [in the middle] and make something, due to the fact that that’s what was majorly missing.

"We needed idiosyncratic to bushed idiosyncratic with the shot – I would person taken a accidental connected him – I would person had Merino, Rice and Nwaneri playing successful determination [the fig 10], to person thing different."

Managing lone 9 minutes of enactment astatine the Vitality Stadium, Nwaneri was overlooked for Arsenal's Champions League clash against Shakhtar Donetsk connected Wednesday, which they narrowly won 1-0.

The teen has made 4 appearances this season, scoring doubly successful Arsenal's 5-1 triumph implicit Bolton successful the 3rd circular of the EFL Cup. The Enfield-born midfielder became the youngest subordinate to ever look successful the Premier League astatine 15 years and 181 days erstwhile coming connected against Brentford successful September 2022.

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