{"id":660141,"date":"2025-09-30T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=660141"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:28:53","slug":"mikel-arteta-praises-eberechi-eze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/30\/mikel-arteta-praises-eberechi-eze\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta Praises Eze and His Quick Adaptation at Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal currently sit second in the Premier League, just two points behind league leaders Liverpool. They are preparing to face Olympiacos on October 1 in their second Champions League fixture of the 2025\/26 season. The Gunners will be rising high after their dramatic 2-1 comeback win against Newcastle, and the news that William Saliba has signed a new contract<\/a>. Summer signing Eberechi Eze has impressed since arriving at the Emirates, and Mikel Arteta was full of praise for the England international and his creativity when speaking at the Olympiacos pre-match press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arteta Speaks to the Media Before Olympiacos Showdown<\/h2>\n

Mikel Arteta Praises Eberechi Eze<\/h3>\n
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Arsenal began their Champions League campaign with a 2-0 win away at Athletic Club. The red side of North London will be eager to make it two wins out of two in the 20:00 October 1 kick-off slot.<\/p>\n

At the pre-match press conference, Arteta discussed what Eze brings to a central position compared to Martin Odegaard:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think he’s got this different quality, that he does things that, in the book, they’re unexpected. When you think he’s going to turn right, he goes left. When he thinks that he’s going to take another touch, he releases the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s his vision, he’s a player who can create those magic moments, and at some point, he can steal the ball in a way that not many players can do. Lucky that we have a few of those, but the more we put him in central positions, in those conditions, especially when there’s a threat around him, we’re playing his strengths.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arteta Talks Eze Adapting to Life at Arsenal<\/h3>\n

Discussing how Eze has adapted to life at the Emirates, the Gunners boss said:<\/p>\n

\u201cVery good. Personally, it’s a very special character, someone really easy to get on with, super intelligent. I’ve been very impressed by how quickly he picks things up, the questions he asks, and how smart he is just to navigate through a different environment. The chemistry he’s generated with his teammates, the way he’s impacting games, for the short period he’s been with us, I think really positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The early signs of how Eze will perform at Arsenal are promising. He has exceptional close control and is great at taking on opponents. He will bring even more creativity to this talented Arsenal team.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a promising start, but this feels like just the beginning for Eberechi Eze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal currently sit second in the Premier League, just two points behind league leaders Liverpool. They are preparing to face Olympiacos on October 1 in their second Champions League fixture of the 2025\/26 season. The Gunners will be rising high after their dramatic 2-1 comeback win against Newcastle, and the news that William Saliba has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":660142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,3],"tags":[5037,3911,4372],"class_list":["post-660141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-premier-league","tag-eberechi-eze","tag-martin-odegaard","tag-mikel-arteta"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660146,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660141\/revisions\/660146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}