🥳 Nwaneri bags first Premier League goal to seal Arsenal win

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Andrew Thompson·23 November 2024

🥳 Nwaneri bags first Premier League goal to seal Arsenal win

Mikel Arteta's Arsenal look to be getting back to their best with a top display against Nottingham Forest.

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Goals from Bukayo Saka and Thomas Partey on either side of half-time looked to be more than enough to seal all three points in North London, but perhaps the day belongs to yet another Hale End graduate; Ethan Nwaneri.

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After coming on for Martin Ødegaard in the 82nd minute, the 17-year-old Enfield-born midfielder needed just four minutes on the pitch to bury his first-ever Premier League goal for his boyhood club.

17 - At 17 years and 247 days, Ethan Nwaneri is now Arsenal's second youngest Premier League goalscorer, behind only Cesc Fàbregas against Blackburn in August 2004 (17y 113d). Prodigy.
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With that, Nwaneri has now become the club's second-youngest PL goalscorer behind another former prodigy, Cesc Fàbregas.

Another one for the future.

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