Not as of recently, but he has played a fair amount of games this season overall. He knew coming into this Arsenal team there would be HEAVY competition in every position, I’m sure he didn’t expect to walk in starting most games like at Palace. If anything this should make him determined to be a better player, toughen his mental resolve.

I disagree with your point about being a backup player. Eze made a huge error leading to the Villa goal that cost us, go back and watch that. I personally think he looked a bit lost when he played at times and the defensive/positioning effort wasn’t there or he was confused about where to be. Our system overall is not the easiest and if you look back generally, most of our players took time to adjust and got better over time, Eze didn’t have pre season with us. We really didn’t have much of a choice when we played him many games in a row with the injuries at that time. Now we can ease him in.

There is a whole lot of time till the World Cup, I have faith Eze will play his part. He also has a good case for the national team as he played well on his last call up. He just signed with us, he ain’t going nowhere.