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Arteta dishing out instructions to Partey<\/strong><\/p>\n Mikel Arteta said Thomas Partey has \u201ccome a long way\u201d since he signed for the club, after the Ghana international produced a starring performance in\u00a0Arsenal\u2019s 2-0 win over Leicester.<\/p>\n Partey and\u00a0Alexandre Lacazette\u00a0were on target as the Gunners reclaimed fourth spot in the Premier League from\u00a0Manchester United, who beat\u00a0Tottenham\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Partey put Arsenal ahead with an 11th-minute header, while he also hit the woodwork with a shot and played a key role in the incident which led to the second-half penalty from which Lacazette scored to seal all three points.<\/p>\n The 28-year-old may not have hit the headlines as much as some of his team-mates since joining from Atletico Madrid in 2020, but Arteta believes the midfielder \u2013 named Arsenal\u2019s player of the month for the first time in February \u2013 is getting better all the time.<\/p>\n \u201cHe almost scored shooting, he had a great shot onto the crossbar, he was involved in both goals \u2013 the header he scored and the penalty as well \u2013 and the reaction when he had the shot,\u201d Arteta said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou could see he was voted player of the month last month, and he\u2019s come a long way, he has the consistency and the minutes, he understands what we want much better.<\/p>\n \u201cI think his cohesion and understanding with the rest of the players is getting better and better, and now it is about consistency and to keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n Arsenal have not finished in the top four since Arsene Wenger was in charge, and last season did not qualify for Europe for the first time since the 1994-95 campaign, but they have a one-point advantage and three games in hand of fifth-placed Manchester United.<\/p>\n West Ham in sixth and seventh-placed Wolves have also played three games more than the Gunners, and are three and five points worse off respectively.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arteta dishing out instructions to Partey Mikel Arteta said Thomas Partey has \u201ccome a long way\u201d since he signed for the club, after the Ghana international produced a starring performance in\u00a0Arsenal\u2019s 2-0 win over Leicester. Partey and\u00a0Alexandre Lacazette\u00a0were on target as the Gunners reclaimed fourth spot in the Premier League from\u00a0Manchester United, who beat\u00a0Tottenham\u00a0on Saturday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6184,1361,6185],"class_list":["post-1022384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arteta","tag-partey","tag-praise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}