Mikel Arteta says "good things will happen" for Ethan Nwaneri if he continues in his current manner - and used a brick and cement analogy on how to improve the teenager after scoring his first Premier League goal.

The Arsenal youth academy product came off the bench and scored the last goal in the Gunners' 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest.

It is the latest milestone reached by the highly-rated midfielder after his Carabao Cup double against Bolton and a wonder goal against Preston.

"Ethan comes in and whoop it lifts the crowd. You can sense how much the crowd loves watching this kid play and the energy," said Arteta.

"What I like is that he comes in and in that context the first thing he does is take a touch, run forward, run past two players and put it inches away from the post.

"I am responsible to build a career for him. You have to do that brick by brick. Today he put another brick. Now we have to put another cement, make sure it doesn’t get dry so we can put another one and that will stick. Then we put one more layer, one more layer.

"If you want to put five in a row believe me it won’t work. We have to manage not only his expectation but his load as well, which is really important.

"I will try to educate him, raise him and give him the pathway that we believe is the best.

"His family, his agent, his friends, they will be very important as well.

"Don't listen to the outside noise, focus on what he does, to play football and he loves every minute of him.Good things will happen to him for sure."