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Mehmet Ali’s under-21s continued their 100 percent start to the campaign with a win versus Leicester City with Ethan Nwaneri bagging a hat-trick, while Jack Wilshere’s under-18s fought to get a point from their journey to West Bromwich Albion.
Arsenal U21s 4-1 Leicester City U21s
Nwaneri was the star of the program as he netted a hat-trick to help us reverse a one-goal deficit and beat the Foxes at Meadow Park.
The visitors took the lead versus the run of play when Tom Wilson Brown poked home, however in first-half blockage time Nwaneri rattled home from the six-yard box to send us into the break all square.
Leicester skipper Paul Appiah was red-carded after lowering Khayon Edwards when he was bearing down on objective, and we cranked up the pressure with additional objectives from Nwaneri and James Sweet, prior to the 16-year-old midfielder finished his treble late on after great from Charles Sagoe Jr.
Post-match Ali was eager to share the appreciation around his group: “I’m really pleased for Ethan, he works really hard and I thought tonight his composure and positioning were brilliant and he got the rewards for it,” said our under-21s boss. “It was three really good goals but massive credit must go to his teammates for providing him with the opportunities.”
Sagoe Jr was pleased with his contribution, even if he could not rather get on the scoresheet himself: “I was unfortunate in this video game, I struck the post and took a crack at saved!” he smiled. “I’m happy for the group and to get the 3 points. It’s a good sensation to get the help for Ethan’s hat-trick, so altogether, it was a good day. I’m attempting to have efficient efficiencies and help the group as much as possible by getting objectives and helps.”
West Bromwich Albion U18s 1-1 Arsenal U18s
Just like their older equivalents the day in the past, our under-18s needed to originate from behind to keep their unbeaten start to the campaign at Albion’s training school.
The home side took the lead when Adriel Walker’s deflected shot discovered its method into the back of the internet, however after a half-time regroup we came out shooting and Osman Kamara caught some hesitancy in the location to equalise.
On what he said to the gamers to influence them to fight back, Wilshere said: “I informed them to think and reveal some character, and when you enter unsafe locations, make every action count. At half-time I felt we’d controlled without in fact harming them, and I wished to see us hurt them more, and we did that.”
Goalscorer Kamara on the other hand was already eagerly anticipating this weekend’s north London derby: “Jack reveals us the significance of Tottenham. It’s constantly a crucial video game so I believe our kids will be more up for it and start with more fire and get the 3 points ideally.”
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