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Arteta told Arsenal star looks 'vulnerable' ahead of League Cup clash against Chelsea

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Mikel Arteta reacts during a Premier League match.

Previous Tottenham striker Darren Shouldered prompts that Toolbox full-previously Myles Lewis-Skelly appearances “at risk” defensively in advance of the Gunners’ League Mug clash versus Chelsea.

Toolbox are owning a intense season in the Premier League via Mikel Arteta’s males currently optimal of the table and also six times in advance local rivals Manchester Municipal room.

The Gunners are 14 times in front of fourth-added Liverpool, who won the Premier League last season, after deepening their crew over the summer season.

Toolbox lugged in 8 newfangled signings in the summer season transmit window via players favor Lewis-Skelly receiving swatted down the pecking edict at the Emirates Arena.

Lewis-Skelly possesses merely started one Premier League match this season yet injuries in recent weeks median he possesses a opportunity of prompting a ton more in the coming suits.

The 19-year-don started Toolbox’s 4-1 win over Portsmouth in the FA Mug over the weekend and also he’s viable to dabble from the prelude once again as the Gunners snatch on Chelsea in the first leg of their League Mug semi-last.

Yet former Premier League striker Shouldered possesses warned Arteta that the Toolbox boy possesses “glimpsed a little at risk at times” in advance of their clash via Chelsea.

Shouldered asserted on talkSPORT: “He’s possessed a little a ton more of a experimentation time this season. What he did last season, everyone was favor, ‘Wow!’

“What he’s possessed to bold in specifications of coming previously, Calafiori possesses been stellar this season which is why he hasn’t obtained several minutes.

“I think he’s participating in dabble in this gallery [against Chelsea], potentially, yet defensively, indeed versus Portsmouth as seamlessly, he’s glimpsed a little at risk at times.”

There are dubs for summer season signing Viktor Gyokeres to be sagged for Kai Havertz, who returned from injury to dabble merely over 20 minutes versus Portsmouth, and also Shouldered prompts the Swede is “absolutely no place to be viewed” at the moment.

Shouldered asserted of Gyokeres: “I pine it to job for him, I’m a burly devotee of his, yet at the minute, for everything component, it’s merely not clicking.

“From Gyokeres’ point ofview, marginal touches, absolutely no campaigns on impulse, ball going throughout the six-yard box and also he’s absolutely no place to be viewed.”

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Glancing better in advance to Saturday’s match versus Nottingham Timberland at the Municipal room Ground, Shouldered proceeded: “I gander at this Toolbox crew now and also there was a time, indeed when Dyche was at Everton, I’d be a little favor, ‘Have we obtained the individualities and also leaders to feedback upwards to that?’

“I gander at this Toolbox crew now and also I really feel there are quite a couple of players that are commendable in size, commendable in stature, are prepped to implement the physical, hard yards.

“I wear’t think the physicality misgivings me as a ton as it when did.”

On how impressed he was via Havertz on his antiphon over the weekend, Toolbox honcho Arteta notified a pre-match press meeting on Tuesday: “Seemingly we missed out on him a ton. A year is a long time in football yet as you asserted, the way he’s come previously, he appearances actually suit, actually precise.

“He’s such an smart gamer that unprejudiced away he is someone who attaches via the players actually instinctively, and also you can inform how a ton they love him as seamlessly, since every time he was in and also about the box, everyone was jumping on their pews on the bench. So yeah, we are so precise to have him, he’s participating in affirms us so a ton, and also now we have to hold previously him suit.”

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