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Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has given his opinion on the league’s best defender ahead of his former side’s thrilling 4-3 comeback win against Luton.
The Gunners continued their bid to claim a first Premier League title since 2004 thanks to Declan Rice’s late winner against the newly-promoted side at Kenilworth Road.
Going into the game Mikel Arteta’s side boasted the league’s outright best defence having conceded 11 goals in their first 14 games.
And despite the uncharacteristically leaky rearguard on Tuesday night, Henry believes the north Londoners have the division’s best defender in their ranks.
The France Under-21 boss even went so far as to claim that the Gunners star is the finest player in his position by some distance.
The player in question? Henry was referring to 22-year-old William Saliba.
‘Right now I think he [Saliba] is [the best], by a mile,’ Henry said.
‘The way he can defend a 1v1, the way he allows Arsenal to stay higher [up the pitch] and defend the 45-50 yards behind him is second to none.
‘His speed, the way he recovers, and when he recovers the ball he doesn’t just kick it into the stands – he tries to get it back [to his team-mates] which is important.
‘I was working in France when he was on loan to Marseille [in 2021-22] and I was surprised that Arsenal didn’t keep him because I thought he was better than what we had.
‘But he went on loan and he came back and he showed everybody that that was a mistake and now he’s now the best defender in the league.’
Arsenal fans were made to wait to see Saliba in Gunners shirt following his signing from Saint Etienne in 2019 but he has shown the quality his potential promised over the last 18 months.
The young defender spent time on loan with Nice and Marseille before becoming a key piece of Arteta’s side last term. His absence from the squad due to injury was sorely felt at the back end of the campaign as Arsenal’s title bid faded.
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