Mikel Arteta hailed the "aura" that Eberechi Eze has brought to Arsenal after he turned down a move to Tottenham and then scored a hat trick against them.

After Leandro Trossard opened the scoring on 36 minutes on Sunday, Eze scored the first hat-trick in a north London derby for 47 years with Richarlison's sublime long-range strike the only reply Spurs could muster.

Eze opted against joining Tottenham when he left Crystal Palace in the summer.

Arteta said after Eze's hat-trick: "Things happen for a reason. And after international duty [with England ], he had two days off, and after one day he wanted to train, and he wanted to improve, and he wanted to do extra practice and he was asking me questions about this and that.

"When a player has such a talent, and his desire is at

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