Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri turns into Premier League’s youngest participant at 15

Arsenal‘s Ethan Nwaneri grew to become the Premier League’s youngest-ever participant on Sunday, making historical past when he got here on in its place of their 3-0 win at Brentford.

Nwaneri got here on for Fabio Vieira within the ninetieth minute as Mikel Arteta’s males cruised to a 3-0 win on the Brentford Group Stadium. Vieira had earlier struck an excellent objective in his first begin for the membership, whereas William Saliba and Gabriel Jesus had been additionally on the right track as Arsenal moved again to the highest of the desk.

At 15 years, 5 months and 23 days, Nwaneri broke the document beforehand held by Liverpool‘s Harvey Elliott (16 years, 30 days). In doing so, the midfielder grew to become Arsenal’s youngest-ever senior participant, breaking the document held by Cesc Fabregas (16 years, 5 months and 24 days).

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Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta mentioned: “It is one other step, one other expertise. In your profession all of the steps aren’t going to be ahead. After that possibly he wants three backwards to go one other ahead, however I feel he deserved it. It sends a extremely robust message about who we’re as a membership as effectively.

“I informed him yesterday that he was going to be with us and that I need him to expertise how it’s to be within the resort, to do a preparation of the sport to be across the boys and that he needed to be prepared. If you are going to be on that bench you need to be prepared. The boy simply seems in your eyes and he is prepared.

“All the choices that we take and that I take are for the membership. It is not for me, it is not for the participant, it is as a result of we imagine that he has a expertise that must be developed extremely within the subsequent two or three years. We are going to see how we handle that however the boy will dictate. Usually it is not us, usually the gamers inform you and demand of you ways far you may go on that.”

Nwaneri’s look marks the newest step in a promising profession at Arsenal, the place he has damaged into the membership’s under-21 set-up and in addition represented England at U16 degree.

The teen wasn’t born when Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium opened in 2006.