Eberechi Eze goes back to Crystal Palace on Sunday as a Premier League title winner with Arsenal. He was expected to receive a guard of honour before the game at Selhurst Park, which is about as neat a full-circle moment as this final day gets. The wider Sky Sports Radar package also uses the occasion to pick out Taty Castellanos and James Maddison, but Eze is the main story here.

Why Eze's Arsenal season looks substantial

The sentimental angle is obvious, but the season underneath it matters more. Eze made 31 Premier League appearances for Arsenal in 2025/26, scored 7 goals and added 2 assists. His 6.94 rating suggests a genuine contribution, not just a nice narrative for the final day.

Eze told skysports.com: "I don't care. If I'm honest I'm not too interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning. I just know that we've got a team that is more than capable and has proven that we are of the highest level. And when we do win, it will down to everyone else to deal with it."

That is a fairly blunt line, and it fits the season he has just had. This was not a late cameo afterthought, it was a sustained role in a title-winning side.

Oliver Glasner also gave Eze credit, saying to metro.co.uk: "Also a special congrats to Eberechi, I think he's taken the right decision to go to Arsenal and not to another club."

The other two Radar stories

Castellanos is the cleanest example of Sky's data angle doing some work. He scored from one of eight shots against Newcastle, the second-highest single-game total by any player in a Premier League game all season, despite only playing 64 minutes. Matthew Benham's line, "For a striker, getting in position is way more informative than finishing," is a useful way to read that display.

Maddison's brief return was different, but no less revealing for Tottenham. He made 28 touches in the period from the 69th minute to full-time, the most of any player in that spell. After a season wrecked by injury, that was a reminder of how quickly he can tilt a game when he is actually on the pitch.

The Eze story lands because it has both the emotion and the output. If he keeps producing at anything like this level, the return to Selhurst Park will feel less like a sentimental stop and more like the latest step in a season Arsenal already won.

Written by Jack Mercer with AI-assisted research, cross-checked against 2 outlets. How we work →