Arsene Wenger has urged Aaron Ramsey to continue his “relentless” drive to bring the best out of Arsenal.
The Welsh midfielder has been in fine form over recent weeks alongside Granit Xhaka in the Arsenal engine room, scoring three goals and providing five assists in 12 Premier League games this season.
Ramsey’s most recent assist came in the 1-0 win at Burnley on Sunday, when he earned the injury-time penalty from which Alexis Sanchez secured a vital victory for Arsenal.
Equally significant for Ramsey has been a run of games he has often struggled to put together during several injury-plagued seasons. Indeed the 26-year-old has missed just one of Arsenal’s last nine league games, playing 90 minutes in all the others.
It is a run of form and fitness Wenger hopes will last.
“He is an excellent player and very important for us,” he said. “Let’s hope he can continue that run because he is a guy who drives the team forward in a relentless way.
“He can go from the first to the last minute and has the engine to do both sides of the game and that is what we want.
“He can defend well and attack well, he can go in the box and that is why he got the penalty on Sunday because he was in the situation where he could provoke that.”
