Arsenal Manager, Mikel Arteta says Thomas Partey is now in a good place following his impressive performance against Leicester City on Sunday.
Partey and Alexandre Lacazette were on target as the Gunners reclaimed fourth spot in the Premier League from Manchester United, who beat Tottenham on Saturday.
The Ghana International put the Gunners ahead with an 11th-minute header and played a key role in the incident which led to the second-half penalty from which Lacazette scored to seal all three points.
The 28-year old has struggled to adapt to the Premier League since joining from Atletico Madrid in 2020 amid injuries that kept him on the sidelines but Arteta believes Partey is improving and says he can become one of the best players at the club.
“Yes, and it shows what he can do,’ Arteta replied.
“And he should be with those contenders because the ability he has is up there with the best in the team. Now he needs to show consistently that he can do that.”
“We are trying to adapt the game a little bit.
“Some of the things we are doing is to try and adapt the game for him to be able to be more decisive, to create more space for him.
“I think he is taking things well.
“It is the work we do in training to try to facilitate to players to exploit their qualities as much as possible.”
‘That’s why we decided to sign him,” said the Arsenal boss. “everything takes some time.
“We have to recognise that he had a lot of injuries as well in a period where he didn’t get any consistency in terms of minutes and match exposure.
“He needed to adapt to a completely different game model than he was used to and now I think he is in a really good place.”
Arsenal will take on Liverpool next on Wednesday in the Premier League in a bid to consolidate their spot in 4th place.