Myles Lewis-Skelly’s mum admits she mixes him up with Arsenal team-mate during matches

Myles Lewis-Skelly has burst onto the country this play and could soon go 1 of the astir recognisable faces successful English shot – but his ain mum admits she often mixes him up with 1 of his Arsenal team-mates.

Mikel Arteta threw Lewis-Skelly consecutive successful astatine the heavy extremity backmost successful September, with the 18-year-old making his first-team debut arsenic a substitute successful Arsenal’s 2-2 gully with Premier League champions Manchester City.

The versatile teen made an instant interaction contempt lone being connected the transportation for a fewer minutes that day, adjacent getting a absorption from Erling Haaland, who asked him, ‘Who the f*** are you?’, during a precocious scuffle astatine the Etihad.

Lewis-Skelly has gone from spot to strength, making a further 19 appearances for his boyhood nine successful each competitions this season, and had the cleanable effect to Haaland’s caput games astatine the weekend.

After scoring his archetypal elder extremity to enactment the Gunners 3-1 successful beforehand successful northbound London, Lewis-Skelly sat down connected the Emirates turf and imitated the Norwegian’s trademark ‘zen’ celebration, which has received immoderate disapproval successful the days that person followed.

Already a first-team regular for 1 of the biggest teams successful European football, Lewis-Skelly seemingly has the satellite astatine his feet and the latest reports suggest the youngster could beryllium fast-tracked into Thomas Tuchel’s England squad.

‘Honestly, he’s surrounded by astonishing people, household and friends, and he’s conscionable a mean kid truthful not really,’ Lewis-Skelly’s mother, Marcia Lewis, told The Sports Agents podcast erstwhile asked astir her son’s meteoric rise.

‘You get the accustomed banter. He’s inactive got to bare the dishwasher and tidy his room.

‘He’s a beauteous lad but I don’t cognize thing else.

‘He’s conscionable Myles and he’s precise respectful.’

An embarrassed Marcia revealed that she sometimes struggles to archer the quality betwixt Lewis-Skelly and Jurrien Timber during games arsenic they person a ‘very akin build’.

‘Do you cognize what? Two things: I’m dyslexic and I person a truly abbreviated attraction span truthful it was each going a spot quick,’ she explained portion replaying Arsenal’s 5-1 triumph implicit City successful her head.

‘So I was like, “Oh…. oh!”, and sometimes I adjacent conflict to enactment retired wherever Myles is connected the pitch.’

Asked whether she had caught the left-back’s extremity against City, she replied: ‘I deliberation so…

‘He’s got a precise akin physique to Timber truthful I get them mixed up!

‘Oh my god, did I truly accidental that? Sorry Myles.’

Speaking connected the It’s Called Soccer podcast, Gary Neville said helium was reminded of his long-time Manchester United team-mate Patrice Evra erstwhile watching Lewis-Skelly burst down the near flank this season.

‘I conscionable privation to close 1 thing. I said Ashley Cole connected Sunday astir Lewis-Skelly erstwhile helium burst onto the scene,’ the legendary ex-United and England right-back said.

‘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.’