He reminds me of him’ – Gary Neville likens Arsenal starlet Myles Lewis-Skelly to Man Utd legend
Gary Neville has heape praise on Myles Lewis-Skelly following Arsenal’s 5-1 win over. Manchester City, comparing the youngster to his former Manchester United team-mate Patrice Evra.
Lewis-Skelly, 18, has enjoying a meteoric rise to stardom สมัครสมาชิก UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีทุกวัน this season, establishing himself as a first-team regular for his boyhood club, alongside Ethan Nwaneri, in the space of just six months.
Last weekend the versatile youngster produced arguably his finest performance yet as the Gunners swept past the Premier League champions in front of a rapturous Emirates crowd.
While Erling Haaland cancelle out Martin Odegaard’s opener to drag the visitors back into the game, a flurry of second-half goals from Thomas Partey, Lewis-Skelly, Kai Havertz and Nwaneri seale Arsenal an emphatic victory.
Lewis-Skelly’s 62nd-minute strike was his first in senior football and the teenager clearly enjoye the moment, even imitating Haaland’s trademark celebration, seemingly in response to their clash in September.
The result put a nine-point gap between second-place Arsenal and City in the English top flight and Mikel Arteta’s men will look to pick up where they left off away to Leicester on Saturday.
‘Seeing Manchester City dismantle in that final half an hour and fall to pieces like that, I’ve never seen that happen to a Pep Guardiola team so dramatically, in such a short period of time,’ ex-Manchester United and England right-back Neville told the.
That was the moment of the week, there was so much happening in that game.
‘It was disappointing for 30 to 40 minutes and then it just came alive.
‘It became electric later on.’
In the days that have followe, Lewis-Skelly has face some criticism for his choice of celebration, with the likes of Joe Cole and Jason Cundy warning the teen it could come back to bite him in the future.
Neville was less than impresse with Gabriel Magalhaes’ behaviour in north London, but felt Lewis-Skelly was well within his rights to celebrate how he saw fit.
‘It looked like it had set up with the rest of the players in the squad, didn’t it? It looked like something that had pre-planne and preprepared,’ Neville adde.
‘I didn’t really notice it in commentary. It got mentioned to us that it was Haaland-like, the celebration, but I didn’t think anything of it at all really. That didn’t really bug me that much.