Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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and his fingerprints were on Ljungberg’s team selection as 19-year-old Emile Smith Rowe made his first Premier League start while Reiss Nelson, 20, and Gabriel Martinelli, 18, made their third.
Arteta feels Arsenal’s exciting youngsters can deliver the drive he wants to change the culture and make the club successful again.
Mesut Ozil (below, in training yesterday) may struggle to fit in under his new regime and Ljungberg revealed he would not have picked him if he had been fit because of his petulance in kicking over a water bottle in reaction to being subbed during the drubbing by Manchester City at the Emirates last week. “There was a lot of youth in the team and I’m really proud of how much effort they put in and how hard they worked,” said Chambers. “They’ve been working hard all season and it showed out there. “It’s promising for the future when you have a lot of young players like that. There are good times ahead.” Chambers hailed Arsenal’s first clean sheet in 15 games as significant and they were solid, if unspectacular, against Everton.
They snuffed out Everton’s threat to the extent that the Blues did not muster a shot on target in a Premier League home game for the first time in nearly two years.
But they created only a couple of chances and face a long road back to challenge the likes of Liverpool and champions
Manchester City. They have won just five of their 18 Premier League games approaching the halfway point of the season and are below Burnley and Newcastle.
Trying to turn Arsenal around will show if Arteta can deliver on the potential Chambers saw back in
2014.