According to Lewis Skelly’s mother, she admits that she sometimes confuses her son with an Arsenal teammate during matches. “He resembles my son very much, they’ve got a very similar build, and sometimes I can’t identify them,” she goes on to say.
His mother admits that she frequently confuses him with one of his teammates at Arsenal, despite the fact that Myles Lewis-Skelly has the potential to become one of the most recognisable faces in English football for the foreseeable future.
During the month of September, Mikel Arteta made Lewis-Skelly’s first-team debut as a substitute in Arsenal’s match against Manchester City, the reigning Premier League champions. Lewis-Skelly, who was only 18 years old at the time, was thrown into the deep end of the depths.
Despite the fact that the versatile teenager was only on the pitch for a few minutes that day, he made an immediate impact. He even received a reaction from Erling Haaland, who asked him, “Who the f*** are you?” during a late scuffle at the Etihad Stadium.
Lewis-Skelly has made an additional 19 appearances across all competitions for his boyhood club, Arsenal, and he had the ideal response to Haaland’s mind games last weekend. This season, Lewis-Skelly has continued to go from strength to strength in the colours of Arsenal.
Following the achievement of his first senior goal, which put the Gunners ahead 3-1 in north London, Lewis-Skelly sat down on the Emirates turf and imitated the Norwegian’s signature ‘zen’ celebration. This celebration has been subject to some criticism in the days that have followed.
Having already established himself as a first-team regular for one of the most successful teams in European football, Lewis-Skelly appears to have the entire world at his disposal. According to the most recent reports, the youngster may be given priority for inclusion in Thomas Tuchel’s England squad.
In all honesty, he is surrounded by wonderful people, including his family and friends, and he is just a regular kid, so it’s not really that big of a deal. During an interview with The Sports Agents podcast, Marcia Lewis, Lewis-Skelly’s mother, was asked about her son’s meteoric rise in the sports world.
“The usual banter is what you get.” Both the dishwasher and his room need to be cleaned up before he can move on.
“I don’t know anything else about him, but he’s a very nice young man.”
It’s just Myles, and he’s very respectful,’ the speaker said.
Due to the fact that Lewis-Skelly and Jurrien Timber have a “very similar build,” Marcia admitted that she sometimes finds it difficult to differentiate between the two players while they are competing in games.
“Are you aware of something? “It was all going a bit quickly because I have a really short attention span and I have dyslexia,” she explained while mentally replaying Arsenal’s 5-1 victory over City. “It was a bit quick because of both of these things.”
Because of this, I was like, “Oh… oh!” and there are times when I even have trouble figuring out where Myles is located on the pitch.
“I think so,” she said in response to the question of whether or not she had witnessed the left-back’s goal against City.
“He has a very similar build to Timber, which is why I get them confused with each other!”
“Oh my god, I can’t believe I just said that.” Apologies, Myles.’
While Gary Neville was a guest on the It’s Called Soccer podcast, he mentioned that when he watched Lewis-Skelly burst down the left flank this season, he was reminded of his long-time teammate Patrice Evra at Manchester United.
“I would like to make one correction,” she said. What I said to Ashley Cole on Sunday about Lewis-Skelly when he first appeared on the scene is something that the legendary former right-back for both England and United said.
A comparison can be made between Lewis-Skelly’s play style and that of Patrice Evra, particularly with regard to the manner in which he runs with the ball.
It was common for Patrice Evra to get the ball on the half-turn and then go around other players. People would hit him, and he would ride the challenge, go past them, and you would think to yourself, “How is he able to do that?!”
“I believe that when he dribbles with the ball and he passes and he works his way into those inside positions, Patrice Evra was the very best at that I’ve seen in terms of that underlap and being in those left channels, he was unbelievable at it,” said the coach.
“He does remind me a lot of Patrice when he is on the ball,” the speaker said.
