Gary Neville has warned Myles Lewis-Skelly not to get "carried away" with off-field distractions after his impressive performance against .

were in fine form on Sunday as they thrashed City 5-1 at the Emirates Stadium, with five different goalscorers finding the net. Lewis-Skelly was one of them, netting his side's third with an arcing shot that beat Stefan Ortega in the 62nd minute.

Following his classy goal and all-round brilliant play against the current champions, Neville has told the young defender to keep his head screwed on in the future in order to have a successful career.

Speaking to Sky Sports post-match, the ex- star said: "I actually mentioned Ashley Cole when he first came on the scene, that's sort of something that just catches your eye and you think 'oh, this is different' and Lewis-Skelly is different. He's got a long way to go, don't get carried away, there are lots of pitfalls out there.

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"You'll get money thrown at you, there'll be distractions thrown at you, there'll be lots of things that you'd like to do that you can't do as a young football player. Forget it, you can do it when you're 35 - you've got 15 years in front of you, concentrate for 15 years on doing this and doing it well. But watching him today, yeah it was brilliant, I think he's a good defender. He's got a real intent about him."

The Gunners showed their intent for the title in style at the weekend, with injuries to key players like and Gabriel Jesus showing no impact in how they took the game to City throughout the full 90 minutes. In fact, Neville made some parallels between Saka and Lewis-Skelly, adding that the full-back plays with a freedom similar to the England international.

He said: "There's another player that we saw in the stand who I think every time I watch him play it's an absolute joy and that's Saka. You cannot come and watch Bukayo Saka play football without feeling enthusiastic about the game - you can't, because everything he does is like he's playing football on the streets as a kid at the age of seven.

"The cynicism hasn't entered the game yet, the cynicism of going down, the cynicism of recycling the ball. The risks in the game, their enthusiasm, their passion is everything you want in a football game - the tenacity, never ever lose that.

"If you can play every game of football like it was the first time you ever played, that is actually an achievement in life where you maintain that sort of love for the game and that joy and ability to just keep doing the things you are doing.

"You see so many players change their game once they make it and change their game when they have 100 games under the belt, and 200 games, and Saka has never changed from the moment he's got into this team, he hit the ground running - and Lewis-Skelly is the same."

Arsenal fans will be hoping that Lewis-Skelly and the rest of the squad keep their winning ways up for the rest of February as they head to St James' Park to face United in the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg on Wednesday needing to overturn a 2-0 deficit to reach Wembley.

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