Calum Chambers happy with Arsenal progress despite lack of games
Monday 16 November 2015 09:26, UK
Calum Chambers is happy with his progress at Arsenal despite his limited first-team opportunities this season.
The 20-year-old switched from right-back to centre-back when he joined from Southampton at the start of last season and made 36 appearances in his first campaign.
This term, however, Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker have been Arsene Wenger's first picks and Chambers is now fourth in the pecking order behind Gabriel.
Having made great strides in 2014/15 and broken into the England squad, the way the current campaign has gone could be seen as a setback by some.
Chambers is taking positives from the experience though and maintains he is gleaning a lot from the club's current first-choice pairing.
He said: "I feel I have learned so much over the last two years and I am happy. I don't think it happened too quickly. It just happened very quickly.
"It was a whirlwind start but I took it game by game and enjoyed it. At the moment, I have changed position to centre back.
"I'm not getting so much game time but I am still working in training and trying to fight for my place. I'm not down or anything.
"When you are not in the team, you have to prepare for games as if you are in. You have to do everything the same.
"I feel I can go up to them (Mertesacker and Koscielny) and ask them anything and learn from them. I watch them in games all the time, learning, and it is helping me get better and better."
