‘Superb’ – William Saliba praised by Mikel Arteta immediately after Arsenal’s 2- acquire in excess of Crystal Palace

Saliba was element of a back again 4 that ended up forced to dig in through the second 50 percent as Crystal Palace fought really hard from 1- down.

The 21-yr-outdated has spent the final three seasons on financial loan at Saint Etienne, Good and Marseille, but has forced his way into the starting off 11.

“Saliba was superb,” Arteta advised Sky Athletics. “For his age, he is constructed really well.

“You need the ideal balance. Physicality in this league is a thing where by you cannot come up small. If you do, you will be exposed.

“It’s the exact with Ben [White] to have an additional participant in that backline who can make a variation.”

Arteta on ‘fear’ Jesus produces

Gabriel Jesus, who joined Arsenal from Manchester City in the summertime, also amazed, significantly in the initially 50 percent an hour, as he prompted a headache for Palace up entrance.

Requested what Jesus will provide to the Gunners, Arteta explained: “The panic issue. He’s always on your shoulder, when the ball is bouncing he has that instinct to get the ball off you and he’s never standing still

“He’s usually on the shift and prepared to act. He’s so sharp and for defenders he’s tough to perform versus.”

Palace are unsuccessful to consider their odds

Roared on by the household crowd, Palace were a lot much better in the 2nd half and designed numerous likelihood which includes Eberechi Eze’s a person-on-1 towards Aaron Ramsdale which the Arsenal goalkeeper saved.

Patrick Viera was content with the exercise of the players, soon after the team was break up into two for pre-time, but rued the skipped prospects.

“We didn’t get our prospects so of program I’m upset,” said Viera. “We should have scored a person or two.

“If you want to earn football matches you have to rating goals. To beat the big teams, we may possibly not generate a whole lot so the chances we do make we have to rating.”