The immediate future looks very bright for Arsenal and so does the more distant. On the night when Max Dowman became the club’s youngest player to start a match at the age of just 15 years and 302 days, it was two other graduates of the Hale End academy who scored the goals to send Mikel Arteta’s side into the last eight.
Ethan Nwaneri, who has one record that Arsenal’s latest protege can never beat as the youngest player in Premier League history, found the net again on a rare start to settle an inexperienced Arsenal side’s nerves before Bukayo Saka rounded off the victory against Brighton after coming on to replace Dowman.
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