EPL: Michael Owen, Martin Keown names Arsenal player Arteta should drop against Chelsea

Former England stars, Michael Owen and Martin Keown person asked Mikel Arteta to driblet Arsenal’s caller signing, Christos Tzolis against Chelsea on Sunday.

They judge that Eberechi Eze ‘outperformed’ Tzolis during Arsenal’s 1-0 triumph implicit Aston Villa, suggesting that the England planetary has earned the accidental to commencement against Chelsea.

Arsenal managed to interruption done a determined Villa defence successful the 59th infinitesimal erstwhile Riccardo Calafiori delivered a transverse to Bukayo Saka, who managed to scramble the shot into the nett from adjacent range.

Tzolis, Arsenal’s £34 cardinal summertime acquisition from Club Brugge, recovered it hard to marque an interaction against Matty Cash successful the archetypal half.

Eze came connected arsenic a substitute for the Greece planetary arsenic Arteta aimed to inject immoderate much-needed vigor into the near side.

The alteration proved to beryllium a tactical success, arsenic Eze roseate to the juncture from the outset and delivered a precise walk to Calafiori successful the build-up to Saka’s extremity astatine Villa Park.

Arsenal secured each 3 points from a hard...