Mikel Arteta and Jamie Carragher agree on Arsenal star's new role as Eberechi Eze point made

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He played some very good minutes in Newcastle to help us to win the game, and I think today he was phenomenal."Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown also praised Odegaard, noting a significant change that allowed him to dictate the game. "He didn't do the pressing he normally does, which gave him more time.

He was quite magnificent, really making Arsenal tick," he said on TNT Sport.Arteta highlighted his brilliant cameo and assist in the closing stages of the victory over Newcastle United, which saw him operating in a deeper position that Jamie Carragher reckoned brought out his very best."In terms of the set-up, what was really interesting was that Odegaard found himself deeper after [Martin] Zubimendi came off," he said on Sky Sports Monday Night Football. "He went into that deeper role, he was fantastic and changed the game.

In the build-up to the first goal, Declan Rice is clever but he [Odegaard] is pulling the strings."During his later analysis of Arsenal's two goals, he added: "I want to go back to this man, Martin Odegaard, who I think changed the game when he came on. He knows a pass from Declan Rice is coming so he is already scanning where he can hurt Newcastle."He's seen that space between the two Newcastle defenders and that is absolutely where his pass goes, can he thread the eye of the needle?