Ben White<\/a> are all currently sidelined through injury. <\/p>\n16-year-old Salmon was taken on the Gunners\u2019 tour to Asia in preseason, where he impressed against the likes of Newcastle United and AC Milan and has also played for the first team in the Champions League this season. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to be able to cope physically, but mentally it\u2019s \u2018can I do this?\u2019 and it\u2019s a position\u00a0obviously that exposes you big time,\u201d Arteta explained. \u201cYou don\u2019t do what you have to do, and they are through [on goal].\u00a0But he\u2019s emotionally a really stable boy; he wants it, and it is still very early in his career, but\u00a0he\u2019s a really good prospect.<\/p>\n
When asked if Salmon was ready to play in the Premier League, Arteta responded: \u201cYes, and he can play as a centre-back or as a full-back. He did it in the Champions League\u00a0the other day, and I always tell the boys you are here for a reason and be ready\u2026 You have to be ready for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has to be both\u00a0ways, always when there\u2019s a relationship. It has to be understanding, and there are certain\u00a0signals and certain chemistries that we have to build. I quite like what I\u2019ve seen in the last\u00a0few games, and he was very unlucky not to get\u2026 in front of the keeper without any\u00a0defenders three or four times.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Gunners make the trip to the Hill Dickinson Stadium for the first time on Saturday night, when they could potentially have been knocked off their perch at the top of the league table by Manchester City, due to the Cityzens playing earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard also spoke about striker Viktor Gyokeres, who has not found the back of the net since his return from injury in late November. \u201c[We need to understand] the way he thinks, the way he interacts\u00a0with people, the timing of his run and his movements,\u201d Arteta said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta says young defender Marli Salmon has what it takes to step up if needed given the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-201220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}