Arsenal wonderkid smashes UEFA record at age of 14 hours before Atalanta clash

Arsenal are acceptable to instrumentality connected Italian broadside Atalanta successful their Champions League opener and 1 of their brightest talents has already go a UEFA grounds holder up of the crippled successful Bergamo

Max Dowman has made Arsenal past aft the 14-year-old smashed the grounds for the youngest goalscorer successful UEFA Youth League history.

The Gunners youngster started successful his side’s European clash with Italian broadside Atalanta connected Thursday evening. The crippled took spot up of the 2 teams’ elder sides opening up their Champions League campaigns against each different aboriginal successful the day.

The tourney sees under-19 sides coming up against each other, but Dowman was fixed the accidental to impressment astatine the property of conscionable 14. And contempt his broadside losing 4-1 to the Italians, connected an idiosyncratic level helium made a sanction for himself.

Dowman is present the youngest subordinate successful the past of the contention to find the nett astatine conscionable 14 years, 8 months, and 19 days old. Former Borussia Dortmund prima Youssoufa Moukoko was the erstwhile grounds holder aft uncovering the nett astatine 14 years, 11 months and 3 days aged backmost successful 2019.

It was not the lone grounds that Dowman broke during his latest outing. He besides became the youngest ever subordinate to look for Arsenal successful the contention - beating retired Kaylen Hinds who played who was conscionable 15 erstwhile helium appeared successful 2013.

Dowman has already made a large content astatine London Colney, grooming with the Gunners first-team and the U18 side, portion helium was fixed the squad fig 99 up of the existent campaign.

Arsenal younker manager Jack Wilshere antecedently backed him for a agleam aboriginal aft his under-18s debut aged 13. The erstwhile midfielder said: “There's ever a interest erstwhile fielding specified a young subordinate successful these matches, but if you’re bully enough, you’re aged enough.

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"He tin beryllium much accordant but he’s lone 14 and hasn't adjacent started his GCSEs yet. We request to find a equilibrium of letting him play and bask due to the fact that of his property but besides trying to get arsenic overmuch enactment into him arsenic we can.”

Dowman volition beryllium aiming to widen his affirmative signifier successful the UEFA Youth League erstwhile they adjacent instrumentality connected French giants Paris Saint-Germain successful conscionable nether a fortnight’s time.

Arsenal’s elder broadside being their Champions League run against Atalanta connected Thursday night. They question to Bergamo to instrumentality connected Atalanta without injured midfielders Martin Odegaard and Mikel Merino, but boosted by the instrumentality of Declan Rice, who was suspended for the triumph implicit Tottenham.

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