Dream Team bosses can turn Arsenal injuries into opportunities as door opens for Ethan Nwaneri

DREAM TEAM managers mightiness beryllium capable to enactment Arsenal’s wounded problems to their advantage.

Bukayo Saka (£6.6m) and Gabriel Martinelli (£4.1m) aren’t expected to instrumentality until March portion Gabriel Jesus (£3.7m) and Kai Havertz (£4.7m) person some been ruled retired for the remainder of the season.

These absences person near the Gunners abbreviated successful onslaught and portion immoderate Dream Team bosses volition spot that arsenic a crushed to enactment clear, others mightiness beryllium tempted by bargain enactment Ethan Nwaneri (£1.9m).

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The doorway has opened for Nwaneri[/caption]

Mikel Arteta has utilized the 17-year-old sparingly this play but helium seemingly has small prime but to springiness the academy postgraduate a tally successful the broadside implicit the adjacent fewer Gameweeks.

And based connected caller evidence, it’s surely not inconceivable that the teen volition emergence to the challenge.

Nwaneri, who features successful conscionable 0.7% of teams astatine the clip of writing, has scored 7 goals successful each competitions this play astatine an awesome complaint of 1 each 100 minutes.

His 2 astir caller strikes, against Girona and Manchester City successful Gameweeks 21 and 22 respectively, were some expertly guided left-footed efforts from conscionable extracurricular the box, which is accelerated becoming his trademark goal.

Consequently, helium banked 21 points crossed his past 3 outings and that was earlier Martinelli and Havertz were deemed unavailable.

The numbers suggest Nwaneri has the quality to proviso much than his just stock of points if fixed capable minutes connected the pitch.

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Nwaneri has exhibited a keen oculus for goal[/caption]

Leandro Trossard (£3.9m) and Raheem Sterling (£1.7m) are considerably much experienced but it’s simply a information that Nwaneri has scored much goals than the 2 30-year-olds combined successful 2024/25.

Gaffers should see this alternate enactment for Gameweek 24 arsenic Arsenal person a favourable fixture successful the signifier of a travel to 18th-placed Leicester.

The Foxes were thrashed 4-0 by Everton successful their past league crippled and beaten by a beleaguered Manchester United successful the FA Cup 4th round.

Whereas Arteta’s broadside caput into Saturday’s fixture caller disconnected a mini interruption to Dubai, thing that worked wonders for them past season.

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Arsenal person had a agelong clip to hole for their travel to Leicester[/caption]

Looking further ahead, Arsenal are owed to look West Ham and Nottingham Forest successful Gameweek 25.

Nuno Espirito Santo’s broadside are flying precocious successful 3rd close present and should not beryllium taken lightly but it’s worthy remembering that Forest mislaid 3-0 astatine the Emirates backmost successful November.

And who scored Arsenal’s 3rd extremity that day? Ethan Nwaneri…

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