Emery: It's our responsibility to give young people a chance | Arseblog News

Unai Emery says that Arsenal has the responsibility to give young players a chance and has promised that his contingent of teen tournaments will continue to have playing time during the US tour.

While an experienced team started the Gunners 2-1 win against Bayern Munich, it was the youth who made the strongest impression.

Joe Willock looked composed in the middle of the field, Reiss Nelson brought his dynamism and Eddie Nketiah, courtesy of Tyreece John-Jules, scored the decisive goal. Robbie Burton and Bukaya Saka also enjoyed the late cameos.

"For them, it's important that every game and every workout brings their performance and energy," Emery said at his post-game press conference.

"We have the responsibility with young players to give them chances.

"We want to use different young players to help. Some players will be with us in pre-season, others will be with us in the season.

"Every minute, they show their performance against big players. For example the one-to-one [Eddie] Nketiah against [Niklas] Sule showed how he can respond. Today 's day has been very positive.

When asked if he was counting on young people this season, he added, "It depends on their performance. Against the Colorado Rapids, many young players played.

"We need it for the moment, but also for the future. Our responsibility in this club for the history, the present and the future is to give a chance to young players. If they deserve minutes, they will have minutes. "I am very happy with them and their work.

"We are going to play against Fiorentina on Saturday and we are going to appeal to young players. This is another opportunity for them to show us how they can react. "

Emery also mentioned Freddie Ljungberg's participation in the tour team selection, revealing that it was the Swede, who led last season under-23, who had suggested including Burton, 19 years.

"With Freddie, we work," he said. "He helps us above all with young players because he knows better than all of us young players.

"For example Robbie [Burton]I did not know Robbie. Freddie told me that he was a good player capable of playing at 6 or 8 years old. He really helped us as needed. "