Gabriel Martinelli has warned his Arsenal teammates concerning the threat of a Chelsea rival ahead of the Premier League derby at Stamford Bridge.
Premier League leaders Arsenal will look to proceed their impressive title charge on Sunday once they make the short trip to west London to face Chelsea.
Arsenal travel to Stamford Bridge with a four-point cushion at the highest of the table and a game in hand over second-placed Manchester City, who scored an injury-time winner to beat Leeds United on Saturday.
Mikel Arteta’s side are the clear favourites to win the title after losing just certainly one of their first 12 games this season, conceding only six goals in the method.
Arsenal finished as Premier League runners-up for 3 seasons in a row but a productive summer transfer window appears to have taken the Gunners to a different level.
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Their next opponents, London rivals Chelsea, are also in positive form, winning five of their last six games and thumping Barcelona within the Champions League through the week.
Chelsea’s teenage sensation Estevao Willian continued his stunning rise with an outstanding goal against Barca and Martinelli has heaped praise on his compatriot ahead of Sunday’s derby.
Estevao has quickly established himself as top-of-the-line young players in world football since his £29m summer move from Palmeiras, scoring nine goals in his last 13 games in all competitions.
‘Estevao is a pleasant boy, his family are as well, everyone’s so humble,’ Martinelli told the Evening Standard. ‘They deserve all the pieces that they’re doing here.
‘The boy is so good as well, everyone within the national team loves him as well. He deserves all the pieces that he’s doing – and I just hope he’s not on his day on Sunday!
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‘Within the national team we had some talks, not only me and him, but everyone.
‘So we knew before he got here how good he’s and it’s not a surprise for us because we knew him from Brazil. He deserves all the pieces, so yeah, fair play to him.’
Estevao was in comparison with Brazil legend Neymar ahead of his move to Chelsea and has definitely lived as much as the hype.
His Chelsea teammate Wesley Fofana has been impressed by his impact, insisting he can ‘do all the pieces’.
‘He can dribble, he can rating, he can pass, he can do all the pieces,’ Fofana told Stadium Astro. ‘And he’s very young, but yeah, he’s amazing.
‘He has amazing talent and uh, he showed the world yesterday the standard, but he can show more.
‘We don’t need to put him under an excessive amount of pressure because he’s very young.
‘He just come from Brazil, and yeah, we’d like to guard him give him a while and yeah just protect him and help him to enhance so much. That is the job of the team.’
While Arsenal fans might want to wary of Estevao, they may even have one eye on Moises Caicedo, arguably one of the best defensive midfielder on the planet.
Arsenal battled Chelsea within the race to sign Caicedo from Brighton, having multiple bids rejected by their Premier League rivals.
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