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Joe Willock Hopes for Arsenal 1st-Team Future with Eddie Nketiah After Return

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Joe Willock envisions a future playing first-team football alongside fellow Arsenal academy graduate Eddie Nketiah after the latter scored in his first start for the club since returning from a loan spell at Leeds United.

Nketiah netted the eventual winner on Monday when the Gunners beat Bournemouth 2-1 at the Vitality Stadium to advance to the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Willock—who was also in Mikel Arteta's starting XI on the south coast—said after the game he and Nketiah could become senior regulars at the Emirates Stadium, per Jack Rosser of the Evening Standard:

"Eddie's probably one of my closest friends.