Re: Arsenal U23s & U18s Thread

by Jay29 Wed Aug 05, 2015 4:43 pm

Arsenal U19s playing Stuttgart in that South Africa tournament. 0-0 after 12 minutes.

Team:

Huddart; Osei-Tutu, O'Connor, Pileas, Chatzitheodoridis; Donovan, Sheaf; Fortune, Da Silva, Mourgos; Hinds

by El Gunner Wed Aug 05, 2015 5:52 pm

Unfortunately not watching Surprised

by RealGunner Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:43 pm

We are through to the final on penalties

Good goal by Thierry Fortune

https://twitter.com/malherbepelser/status/628968805524480001

by Jay29 Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:44 pm

1-1 after 90 minutes. Arsenal through to the final against PSV after they won the penalty shoot-out 4-3; Huddart made two saves, Zelalem scored the winning pen.

Yassine Fortune scored a very nice goal but had to go off injured.

Arsenal used a high press for a lot of the second half. Forced Stuttgart into giving the ball away in bad areas several times but failed to capitalise.

by mani88 Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:42 pm

Theirry fortune or yassine fortune???

by urbaNRoots Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:31 pm

We paid €2.5m for Fortune & Rene-Adelaide, so it does not surprise me to see them be good so early.

Lens :bow:

by RealGunner Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:31 pm

mani88 wrote:Theirry fortune or yassine fortune???

Yassine Fortune lol

Just called him thierry as a joke

by Jay29 Sat Aug 08, 2015 1:41 pm

Arsenal vs PSV in the final of the Durban tournament kicking off at 14:00.

Huddart; Osei-Tutu, O'Connor, Pleguezuelo, Bola; Zelalem, Sheaf; Eyoma, Hinds, Mourgos; Fortune

by RealGunner Sat Aug 08, 2015 1:45 pm

I hope that Bola kid doesn't have his first name starting with an E

by MJ Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:22 pm

Marc Bola

by El Gunner Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:25 pm

In some countries the 'm' has a sound which is similar to 'e' smoking

by RealGunner Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:50 pm

1-0 Arsenal with Sheaf's goal at HT

https://twitter.com/ArsenalStuff_BR/status/630008015144525824

great strike

Zelalem missed a pen. Could be 2-0 up

by Jay29 Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:42 pm

Arsenal won 2-1 thanks to a last minute from Yassine "Thierry" Fortune. Looks like we've gotten two gems from Lens.

Ben Sheaf got player of the tournament. Scored two screamers.

Impressive win considering Bielik, Crowley and Jeff weren't involved.

by urbaNRoots Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:13 pm

https://vine.co/v/ewdV0FVzQX7

Smile

by RealGunner Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:14 pm

Our U19 CL team will be quite decent

by El Gunner Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:25 pm

Loved Yassine's goal. Real quality, also winning a final in the last minutes is always cool.

by Jay29 Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:30 pm

The U18s will be bolstered with Dragovic, Malen and Bennacer as well.

by Jay29 Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:23 pm

The U21s are playing their first game of the season against Fulham. The team:

Macey; Moore, Bola, Kamara, Pleguezuelo; Beilik, Zelalem; Sheaf, Jeff, Iwobi; Mavididi

by RealGunner Fri Aug 14, 2015 8:45 pm

Arsenal FC ‏@Arsenal 39s39 seconds ago
Zelalem gets into the box after a quick passing move and places it into the bottom corner (86) 1-0

by urbaNRoots Fri Aug 14, 2015 9:30 pm

Needs to go on loan like the rest.

by EL Patron Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:05 am

Don't think he is ready, if we send him now i think he will struggle and eventually loose confidence. Better stay and try to get a game in the cups.

by urbaNRoots Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:06 am

If Crowley/Maitland-Niles are ready then so is Zelalem. He's been even longer in our first team without a loan.

Should it fail, he comes back to our first team like Akpom and tries again next year. U21 level does him no good anymore.

Iwobi aswell.

by El Gunner Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:29 am

Agree with urban

by T-Mach Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:14 am

urbaNRoots wrote:If Crowley/Maitland-Niles are ready then so is Zelalem. He's been even longer in our first team without a loan.

Should it fail, he comes back to our first team like Akpom and tries again next year. U21 level does him no good anymore.

Iwobi aswell.

Guess Iwobi will be a January loan option.He seems to be on the fringes of the first team so I believe he'll get his chances in COC until we get dumped.

Though a season-long loan is always the best option I believe AW might want to watch him more closely.

Believe Zelalem is worth a loan tryout.He could be probably fired up by the demotion from the first team and that could spur him on to do well.Further his exploits with Arsenal and US underage teams can help him get a good club which is willing to play him regularly as well.

Arsenal have managed to loan out as the prospective first teamers to good clubs and most of them started well too.Hope they send to GZ on loan too.

by T-Mach Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:19 am

Arsenal U18s too started off with a victory in their new season like the U21s.A very good start compared how we finished last season.

U18s won 2-0 vs Norwich,with the 'next hype' Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah scoring.

Also,the goal scored by Reiss Nelson was from a set piece routine which was devised by Theirry Henry and U18s coach,Kwame Ampadu.

He was one of the youth coaches yesterday and was seen congratulating Nelson for his goal.

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by MJ Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:48 am

Yeah, Zelalem needs a loan:

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