{"id":637,"date":"2026-04-05T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=637"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:49:09","slug":"mikel-arteta-told-how-to-unlock-highly-thought-of-arsenal-star-by-ex-gunners-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta Told How To Unlock &#8216;Highly Thought Of&#8217; Arsenal Star By Ex-Gunners Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Former Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn has told Mikel Arteta how he can unlock Myles Lewis-Skelly. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are currently top of the Premier League table heading into the last seven games of the season. Mikel Arteta\u2018s side have a nine point lead at the top of the table, and are in pole position to secure the title this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have seen several players perform well this year, but there are some names who have surprisingly regressed since last year. Myles Lewis-Skelly is one of those names, as he has lost his starting left-back role to Riccardo Calafiori.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer rumours are now suggesting that Lewis-Skelly could leave the club in the summer amid interest from rivals Man United. But would it be worth Arteta trying something else with the 18 year-old.<\/p>\n<h2>Arteta told to play Lewis-Skelly in midfield<\/h2>\n<p>Former Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn believes that Arsenal should play Myles Lewis-Skelly as a midfielder, which is where the English youngster played during his time at the Gunners\u2019 youth academy.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis-Skelly moved to left-back before coming into Arteta\u2019s starting XI last season, but he is more than capable of moving back into midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Winterburn told <a title=\"https:\/\/pariurix.com\/editorial\/stiri-sportive\/arteta-greseste-o-legenda-a-lui-arsenal-critica-pozitia-starului-lui-arsenal.html\" href=\"https:\/\/pariurix.com\/editorial\/stiri-sportive\/arteta-greseste-o-legenda-a-lui-arsenal-critica-pozitia-starului-lui-arsenal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">PariuriX.com<\/a>: \u201c<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Personally, I would love to see him (Lewis-Skelly) play in that midfield role, and I felt for him because that\u2019s where I watched him play as a kid and when I did my co-commentating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Mikel Arteta just felt left back was the best position for him to come through at that time. I felt for him when Califiori got injured, and I saw the team sheet, and I thought Myles Lewis Skelly would play in midfield. He has to. All of a sudden, Myles Lewis Skelly had to play left back so that was disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got to keep pushing in training and work on his defensive game. He\u2019s still a very highly thought of young player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to see Arsenal\u2019s latest transfer news.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn has told Mikel Arteta how he can unlock Myles Lewis-Skelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}