Pre-season: Arteta hails Arsenal players after thrashing Chelsea

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was full of applause for his players after they thrashed Chelsea 4-0 during the pre-season your in the US.

The two Premier League rivals went head to head in the Florida Cup as Gabriel Jesus, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Sambi Lokonga found the back of the net for the Gunners.

Before their match against Chelsea Arsenal had defeated Nurnberg, Everton and Orlando City.

“I’m really happy,” Arsenal boss Arteta said. “With the performance in general and with the tour.

“I am really pleased to see the way he [William Saliba] is playing, the way he has adapted to the team, the maturity that he’s shown at 21-years-old, carry on doing it.

“We will keep developing him, he has a huge potential, he is already a top player and we have to make him even better.”

He added on Zinchenko, “He was desperate to play and I knew that. It was a maximum 45 minutes but you could see straight away he was comfortable.

“He understands everything that I want, he understands the process and I thought he had a really good game.”