Ethan Nwaneri closed the Premier League record for Arsenal

The 17 -year -old Arsenal star Ethan Nwaneri is two goals to equate the prodigious record of markers established by the legends of England Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney.

The aforementioned duo accumulated nine goals in all competitions before meeting 18 Premier League Club. Nwaneri, however, has this goal in its places of interest.

The diminutive forward is so light at his feet that he would fight to leave the footprints in the snow, but he has certainly left his mark for an innovative year on the first team. After becoming the youngest player in the history of the Premier League when he debuted against Brentford In 2022, who reached a 15 -year -old, “he has school in the morning,” Nwaneri had to wait until September 2024, before scoring his first senior goals.

Bolton Wanderers sent two Carabao Cup strikes to the 17 -year -old Preston North End was also treated To a first -hand demonstration of Nwaneri’s ability to bend the ball with his left foot. What the adolescent will do is already abundant: he still has to make a single shot with his weaker right side, but he has shown him to be much more difficult. Can you make a signature move before you allow you to vote?

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Nwaneri became the arsenal The second scorer of the Premier League With a Tather Stinger against Nottingham Forest in November and he has also been to the destination of the continent, removing -at the top of the box to collect the lower corner against Girona earlier this year.

No player had scored more than five goals in a single season for Arsenal before the age of 18 since John Radford accumulated eight in the 1964/65 campaign, for elect.

There are still seven games for Nwaneri to score the two goals he needs to match Owen’s exploits in Liverpool and Rooney during his days in Everton before he met on March 18. But,, Mikel Arteta It has been hung to avoid overloading the wing that is five months younger than the Emirates Stadium.

“I am responsible for building a career for him,” Arteta warned after Nwaneri Marqui his first goal from the Premier League. “You have to make this brick for brick. Today he has put another brick. Now we have to put some cement, make sure -you do not dry out so that we can put another and stick to it. Then we put a more layer, one more layer.

“If you want to put five bricks in a row, believe -me, it will not work. We have to manage not only its expectation, but its load, which is really important.”

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