Arsenal’s Nwaneri is the youngest player in Premier League history

Mikel Arteta has brought Arsenal back to the best of the Arsene Wenger era. In the 8th round the Londoners beat Brentford in the away match (3:0) and temporarily held the first place in the Premier League. At the very end, Arteta released another young talent onto the field – 15-year-old Ethan Nvaneri.

In a minute of playing time, Nvaneri received the ball only once, but the fact remains that the teenager from Arsenal became the youngest player in the history of the Premier League. For the first time in one of the European top 5 leagues, a person born in 2007 played.

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Born in 2007

Nvaneri was released on the field for a reason – this is the new star of the Arsenal academy. Ethan started the season with Arsenal’s under-18s but was quickly promoted to the under-21s as the coaches were so impressed with his level.

For both teams, the attacking midfielder played 10 matches, scored 4 goals and gave 5 assists. Nwaneri can play offensively in any position. Best game of the season – against Tottenham U18. Then Ethan made a great goal pass to the trivela for the second goal and scored the fourth.

Before the Arsenal youth game against Wolverhampton, Ethan was expelled from the squad and told that he would prepare with the main team for the match with Brentford – injured Odegaard and Zinchenko vacated the place in the squad.

But no one expected Nvaneri to make his debut in the Premier League right away – Arteta also seems to be delighted with the progress of the young player.

Feel Old: Nwaneri was born after Saul Campbell, Robert Pires and Ashley Cole left Arsenal. When Thierry Henry moved to Barcelona, ​​Ethan was 4 months old.

Nwaneri is the youngest player in the history of the Premier League and European top leagues in general

Nwaneri made his debut for the London club at the age of 15 years and 180 days – he became the youngest player in the history of the Premier League. The previous record holder – Harvey Elliot, who now plays at Liverpool – has overtaken by more than six months.

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Even at the beginning of the season, Ethan was coached by another record holder. Jack Wilshere held the title of Arsenal’s youngest player in the Premier League for a long time, and in the summer he became the coach of the U-18 team and actually produced Nvaneri’s impressive run to the first team

There are also not the most pleasant statistics. Of the top 10 youngest debutants in Premier League history, only Lennon and Wilshere have made more than 20 Premier League appearances. True, the same defender Rhys Oxford has 81 games in the Bundesliga.

Most of the players from the top did not reveal themselves in the end – the same Matthew Briggs, who held the record for 12 years, traveled during his career to such teams as Millwall, Colchester, Chesterfield, Barnet, Coggeshol and went to the Danish Velier “. Briggs is now 31 and plays for Division 8 Gosport Borough.

Before Nwaneri, the youngest debutant in Arsenal history (in all competitions, not just the Premier League) was Cesc Fàbregas. Let’s see if Ethan can become the same iconic footballer for Londoners.