Arsenal: Ferdinand insists player ‘hammered’ by critics deserves pay rise after Nott’m Forest win

Rio Ferdinand picked out an Arsenal player that’s been “hammered” by defamers for momentous celebrate working together through the Artillerymans’ 1-0 win over Nottingham Timberland on Sunday.

Mikel Arteta’s side laboured to triumph as substitute Noni Madueke’s deflected urge validated the difference at the Emirates to snag Arsenal ago within 3 points of Manchester City liberty at the elevation of the Premier League table.

But the Artillerymans obligatory a tidbit of exhilarating blessing and some last-gasp attaching to hold out as Timberland piled on the discomfort in the final few minutes.

Ezri Konsa – that joined Arsenal from Aston Villa for £51m in the summer season – starred together with Gabriel at the ago and collected a impressive last-minutes tackle to refute Liam Delap.

And also Ferdinand was horribly astonished by the England global’s capability, hailing the “match-sweet” treatment which sold to plunked his defamers in their liberty.

“The protectors pick Konsa obligatory a pat on the ago,” Ferdinand claimed on Rio Stances.

“I saw Declan gain a block foreseeable the end too. The block Konsa rendered at the end of the video game, oh my god that’s a matchwinner. He is qualified to a bump up in livelihoods simply for that singly.

“Enormous, vast minutes. I investigate human beings threat to hammer Konsa and specify why have we gained Konsa? That’s why, because he’s unceasing and he’s tenacious.”

Arteta was similarly complete of celebrate for the responsibility both Konsa and Gabriel dabbled in the triumph.

“The win was not plausible without them, because they have so much feature and physicality, having to regularly tackle what we anticipated to be 50 rounds in the undertone,” he claimed.

“I wear’t realize how several they owned, yet it would not surprisingly’ve been horribly chummy to that. And also it’s not only that, it’s what ensues after that ball and the chattels from that.

“To be on it regularly, every solutions ceded is horribly arduous. When you think it’s implemented, Timber and Hudson-Odoi come in and they start to have a unalike fear.

“Presently you are male-to-male through the 2 centre-endorses. But that’s the Premier League, and the feature of it which earns it the impeccable league in the planet.”