Fabio Vieira scored his second goal for Arsenal on Thursday night.
The Gunners breezed past Bodo/Glimt of Norway with a 3-0 victory in the Europa League last night.
Vieira, a £34 million summer signing [The Times], rounded off the scoring on 84 minutes following excellent work from Gabriel Jesus.
At times, the scoreline flattered an Arsenal side who occasionally struggled against the visitors.
And although Mikel Arteta praised his Portuguese maestro after the game, he did remark that the player certainly needs ‘to do more’ in a defensive perspective.
He told BT Sport via The Metro: “Every time he’s around the box he’s a real threat, really intelligent player and brave. In defending he still needs to do more and understand it more because organisation is key when you play against good teams in ball possession.”
It’s worth pointing out that despite Arsenal having played 10 games now this season across the Premier League and Europa League, Vieira missed the early part of the campaign due to injury.
And that’s significant because we’re talking about a player who’s played only 275 minutes under Arteta – or one and a half games, more or less.
He’s still a newbie to the Spaniard’s style and there’s no doubt that the more he plays, the more he’ll adapt to Arteta’s demands off the ball, including defensive work.
The North Londoners are home to Liverpool on Sunday afternoon and it’ll be interesting to see if the former Porto playmaker can add more minutes against the Reds.
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