The shot-stopper lost his place for Sunday's trip to Goodison Park.
There have been some critics of Arteta’s decision but Odegaard believes Arsenal are ‘lucky’ to have two such excellent shot-stoppers and says Ramsdale reacted positively to the decision.
‘I think he will just keep working hard, like he is always doing,’ Odegaard told reporters when asked how Ramsdale would respond to losing his place. ‘Today [Sunday] he was there supporting us, cheering for us, helping us. He is a great character and he showed a very good response today by backing the team. It was excellent from him.‘They are both so good on the ball and in goal as well. So, we are lucky to have two such good goalkeepers and we will see who plays.’Arteta has staunchly defended his decision to bring in Raya and rotate his keepers and even suggested he might sub one of them out during a game in the future.
On why he opted to start Raya, he explained: ‘The same rationale that Fabio Vieira played here or that Eddie Nketiah played ahead of Gabriel Jesus. I haven’t had a single question on why Gabriel hasn’t started – he has won more trophies including me in that dressing room but they don’t [ask why]. ‘It is something that historically is done like this but I cannot have two players in this position and not play them. David has tremendous qualities like Aaron has and Karl [Hein] has, but we have to use them and it is like this.
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