‘One of the best in the world’: Ljungberg praises the Arsenal star and citing his “advantage” over Phil Foden

That will probably go down as one of the easiest nights in Arsenal’s season so far after they thrashed Sheffield United 6-0 at Bramall Lane on Monday night.

It was once so easy for the Premier League title-chasers that Mikel Arteta used to be capable to relaxation Bukayo Saka by way of taking him off at half-time.

The 22-year-old didn’t leave besides having his say due to the fact he furnished two assists as Arsenal stormed to a 5-0 lead interior forty five minutes, with Jamie Carragher lauding Declan Rice’s passing ability.

Freddie Ljungberg hailed Bukayo Saka for his efforts and how Sheffield United have been very wrong to go away him ‘isolated’ on the right channel, as he told Premier League Productions (04/03/24 at 11:10 pm).

The Highbury hero later on compared the speedster’s career so some distance with his England teammate Phil Foden and how the former has performed greater than 2000 minutes extra because they made their senior debuts as teenagers.

When Bukaya Saka used to be coming via at Arsenal, Freddie Ljungberg used to be in the academy and then part of the senior staff.

So, he would have seen him rise and development into ‘one of the nice players in the world in his position’.

One factor is for sure, with Phil Foden enjoying the pleasant soccer of his life and Bukayo Saka still doing what he does best, then England have serious attacking talent on their hands beforehand of Euro 2024.

Bukayo Saka and Phil Foden

“Anyone who sees Bukayo, they will say he is so tactically good, in small spaces he is good, however his tempo is enormous,” stated Ljungberg about Saka’s role in Arsenal’s 2nd goal.

“Playing against Bukayo Saka. You never, ever let him be isolated, so he can simply run at you. He has widespread tempo and a magnificent brain. All that Bukayo sees is that area in behind, ‘oh, I am going for it’. You have no danger of catching him, and then you have the first put up defending that’s a joke (from Sheffield United).

On Saka and Foden’s game time in their careers so far: “There is a difference (Saka has performed more minutes). Then you can say what is proper and what is wrong. Maybe Bukayo performs greater than he should, he is young and he must be allowed to be rested. He runs a lot.

“Often what we talk about in clubs is the significance of the minutes when they are young, so they get clever. They then get ride in the trade. Like ‘Oh, I want to take it easy now. I can rest. I can go. What need to I do? Is this participant weak on this side?’

That’s the place I sense Bukayo has a little bit of an gain due to the fact he has greater minutes. Then you can see he (Foden) can be fresh when he plays and he has received a lot of trophies, so there is no proper or wrong.

“He has given so a good deal hope to the academy – one of the pleasant players in the world in his position, in my opinion.”

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Winning the Premier League title

Of course, taking part in for the all-dominant Manchester City, Foden has all the trophies in his locker, which include a historic Treble.

Saka has all the brain in the world to reach those heights, it’s simply a case of prevailing the large one for the very first time and then the ball will start to roll at a serious pace.

After remaining season’s heartache, Arsenal will desire to put the wrongs proper and tightly closed the club’s first title in two decades.

If Saka can be the man to information them down that road, then he will instantly come to be an Arsenal legend.