{"id":193186,"date":"2026-02-01T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:34:58","slug":"bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea","title":{"rendered":"Bent Names Vulnerable Arsenal Star Against Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Premier League player, Darren Bent, is concerned about Arsenal\u2019s young talent Myles Lewis-Skelly ahead of the Carabao Cup match against Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks the defender has not played as well as he did last season.<\/p>\n<p>Bent talked to talkSPORT, through Metro, before the semifinal game at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Lewis-Skelly has struggled to get back into the starting team because of Riccardo Calafiori.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks the young player will play against Chelsea, but he also said the player did not perform at his best in the Portsmouth game during the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cHe\u2019s had a tougher time this season. What he did last season, everyone said, \u2018Wow!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat he\u2019s had to deal with in terms of coming back, Calafiori has been really good this season, which is why he hasn\u2019t played a lot of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he might play in this game against Chelsea, maybe, but when it comes to defense, especially against Portsmouth, he has seemed a little weak at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are traveling to London to take on Chelsea in the Carabao Cup semifinal first leg at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, January 14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Premier League player, Darren Bent, is concerned about Arsenal\u2019s young talent Myles Lewis-Skelly ahead of the Carabao Cup match against Chelsea. He thinks the defender has not played as well as he did last season. Bent talked to talkSPORT, through Metro, before the semifinal game at Stamford Bridge. He said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":193185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-193186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bent Names Vulnerable Arsenal Star Against Chelsea - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Premier League player, Darren Bent, is concerned about Arsenal\u2019s young talent Myles Lewis-Skelly ahead of the Car ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bent Names Vulnerable Arsenal Star Against Chelsea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Premier League player, Darren Bent, is concerned about Arsenal\u2019s young talent Myles Lewis-Skelly ahead of the Car ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-01T14:29:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-01T15:34:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1769960117.064233.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bent Names Vulnerable Arsenal Star Against Chelsea\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-01T14:29:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-01T15:34:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea\"},\"wordCount\":213,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1769960117.064233.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bent-names-vulnerable-arsenal-star-against-chelsea\",\"name\":\"Bent Names Vulnerable Arsenal Star Against Chelsea - 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