Eze Can Be The Difference Maker For Arsenal – Carragher

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has said that Martin Odegaard faces a battle to return to the Arsenal line-up. This comes after Ebereche Eze impressed with a hat-trick in the North London derby, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, while he didn’t think Eze’s signing would be a game-changer for Arsenal when it happened, he now feels that Eberechi could be the real difference for the club’s title challenge.

Carragher added that Odegaard will have to step up his game to keep a difference maker like Eze on the bench.

His words, “There was always this talk they [Arsenal] needed a goal-scorer. They needed to score more goals, certainly last season to compete with Liverpool.

But Arsenal in general play didn’t create enough, that was a problem. Doesn’t matter who your striker is, if you’re not creating chances for him, he’s not there to finish.

He’s [Eze] made a difference with that.

Even this season if we go back to early on, if we go back to Anfield, that was almost like the Arsenal of last season. Very strong defensively but not really looking like scoring going forward.

I’m certain Eze played [in the next game] at Newcastle away and you felt like there was a difference.

It just feels like his signing, which I felt to be fair would just be something that would be to back up Odegaard — Odegaard is out at the moment — but Odegaard has a real fight.

I must be honest, I think in the summer when Arsenal signed him, and I had my Liverpool hat off, and I looked at the signings Arsenal made, besides Gyokeres I felt a lot of them were to strengthen the squad,” Carragher said.

When Eze came in, maybe it’s not a game changer.

We’ve still seen some of his highlights this season, there’s still great goals.

Then he goes and scores a hat-trick, so, apologies, I’ve certainly undervalued the importance of that signing because he looks like he could be the real difference for Arsenal this season and going on to win the title.”

WOW.