{"id":1192,"date":"2026-05-08T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:25:42","slug":"scholes-names-gunners-star-who-will-make-biggest-difference-vs-psg-and-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Scholes names Gunners star who will make \u2018biggest difference\u2019 vs PSG and Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Paul Scholes believes that Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka will make a massive difference in the final games of the season, as Mikel Arteta\u2019s side aim to beat Manchester City in the Premier League title race and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal<\/strong> have four more matches left to play this season, as the Gunners aim to become the champions of England and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The north London club will take on defending European champions <strong>Paris Saint-Germain<\/strong> in the final of the Champions League on May 30.<\/p>\n<p>Before that clash, Arsenal will face West Ham United, Burnley and Crystal Palace in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners are five points clear of second-placed <strong>Manchester City<\/strong>who have a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League title is for Arsenal to lose, and Manchester United legend <strong>Paul Scholes<\/strong> believes that winger Bukayo Saka could be decisive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0Ranking Premier League clubs based on their longest trophy droughts ever: Man Utd 8th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saka has had injury problems this season, but the England international winger is now back fully fit and is starring for Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old right-winger has scored 11 goals and given eight assists in 46 matches in all competitions for Arsenal this season.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Open Saka makes Arsenal teammates &#8216;better&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Scholes said about Saka on <em>The Overlap<\/em>: \u201cI think Saka is the biggest difference.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"1ffbae35d432d0d71911ca2a0b209fbb\" image-id=\"prsi6FZpaY2i\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s fresh because when he was playing before his injury, he wasn\u2019t the same person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis injury has done him a world of good, hasn\u2019t it? He could be the one in the last four or five games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Where would Arsenal rank in the greatest seasons by a Premier League club? Man Utd in danger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man Utd legend Roy Keane observed: \u201cWhere Arsenal have done well in the last few years, remember Saka was a huge player for them, Odegaard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know these lads, in a strange way, the last few months, obviously injuries, they have been fringe players, I know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Saka comes back into the team, you are like, you are not a main man anymore, in that sense.<\/p>\n<p>Scholes added: \u201cSaka makes the rest of them better players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many times do you see Odegaard in that little space there between Saka and the midfield and just feeding him in them balls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to have connections in that team, the connections haven\u2019t been there, even with Gyokeres, the connections haven\u2019t been there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scholes, though, has made it clear that he has not been enamoured by Arsenal\u2019s playing style.<\/p>\n<p>The former Man Utd midfielder said: \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re the best champions we\u2019ll ever see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll talk about this team in years to come like great United teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t always have to beat the top teams \u2013 they\u2019ve not beat City and\u00a0Liverpool, the best teams for the last four, five, six years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I don\u2019t think people will speak about them being a great team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you can get away with not winning those games, of course you can, but to be a great team, you\u2019ve got to go and beat these teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey won\u2019t have beaten City, won\u2019t have beaten Liverpool, United beat them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can win in all different ways, I\u2019m just trying to say, they\u2019re not a team I\u2019d turn on and watch all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen (David) Raya and the centre-halves just playing and playing. It\u2019s been boring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: Emmanuel Adebayor predicts Arsenal vs Man City title race winners: \u2018I wish\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Scholes believes that Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka will make a massive difference in the final games of the season, as Mikel Arteta\u2019s side aim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}