Sentences with phrase «young gunners»

Young gunners, that's who.

We fancy another straightforward win for Arsene Wenger's young Gunners as this previously postponed fixture finally nears a conclusion.

But that's what happened when MBNA gave young Gunners fan, Joe, the opportunity of a lifetime when he met up with Alex Iwobi, Granit Xhaka and Olivier Giroud ahead of this weekend's FA Cup Final.

We now know the 2017/18 FA Youth Cup final will be between four - time holders Chelsea and Arsenal as the young Gunners completed a two - leg victory over Blackpool on Monday.

Instead, their likely list of opponents for 2014/15 is rather less glamorous, with Bolton Wanderers, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, Reading, Stoke City, Middlesbrough, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers all, as it stands, poised to join the young Gunners in the second division.

Arsenal U17s won the Future Cup in the Netherlands this week, with the young Gunners prevailing past Ajax, Barcelona and Anderlecht en route to securing the trophy.

Yet another hugely disappointing campaign is drawing to a close and once again Arsenal are resigned to the fact that for a sixth consecutive season, no trophies were brought back to the Emirates Stadium by Arsene Wenger and his young Gunners.

At times the blend of young Gunners and a smattering of first - teamers has been enough to blow their opponents away, but that hasn't always been the case.

Not having much things going on during international break, Arsenal Channel recently posted an interesting video about their players enjoying some Scalextric moments with young Gunners.

Eddie Nketiah scored a hat - trick as the young Gunners move to within a point of PL2 leaders Liverpool.

Midfielder Emile Smith Rowe starred as the young Gunners swept into a 4 - 0 lead at half - time, three of those goals coming in five minutes.

Frankly the first half was a sumptuous exhibition of football from young Gunners, some of whom are supremely gifted.

With Arsene Wenger selecting a very makeshift defence of Debuchy and Holding either side of a central midfielder Elneny, as well as three young Gunners in Nelson, Willock and Maitland - Niles it was clear that the Gunners were making the Premier League game away to Everton on Sunday a big priority.

With England also doing their training at Arsenal's London Colney facility, the young Gunners that play for England are getting double the exposure to the pitches, so surely it is about time that this was investigated.

The likes of Alexis, Walcott and Campbell have all also played upfront in the past, whilst the likes of Sanogo, Asano and Akpom are young Gunners who will be hoping for a chance in the first team.

Arsene Wenger has always used domestic cup games to rotate his squad and give some valuable game time to some of the Arsenal fringe players and the young Gunners coming through the academy.

Hopefully the young Gunners will get plenty of regular game time and come back ready to star for Arsenal, as we have seen happen many times in the past with the likes of Wilshere, Szczesny and most recently, Coquelin.

With this Europa League tie being the second of three matches in just six games in a fairly horrible fixture pile up it was expected to be a heavily rotated Arsenal starting line - up, until Arsene Wenger started talking about it being an important game and not using many young Gunners that is.

If not the boss will have to be a bit more adventurous and might decide to play one of our young Gunners such as Alex Iwobi.

But there are quite a few fringe players and young Gunners that have been called up and the situation is different with them, as they could do with the playing time and the valuable experience gained in international matches.

At least the Arsenal under 21 side have got a second chance to achieve the main goal of winning promotion to the top division of the Barclays Premier League, but you would have to worry about our chances after the young Gunners followed in the footsteps of the senior side by blowing what seemed to be a golden opportunity to finish on top of the league.

I concede the sample size is one game but both young Gunners were, along with DO the best players sporting red and white on the pitch all evening and should feature the rest of the EPL season.

However, there was that sickness but to consider and Arsene Wenger played some young Gunners and had players in odd positions.

Arsene Wenger is likely to ring the changes to the Arsenal team for the Capital One cup game this week, although after losing our last two games and having to face our local rivals Tottenham in the cup, he is likely to resist his usual tactic of playing a lot of young Gunners.

I assume that most, if not all, of the Arsenal fans that use this site have heard what our young Spanish right back has been saying about the strength in depth in the Arsenal squad and there being enough quality among the fringe players and the young Gunners to be able to step up and cover for the ones that have picked up an injury.

Now our central midfielder Mathieu Flamini is not available to play, so Wenger has had to put Calum Chambers along with Francis Coquelin in central midfield and we have to hope that the inexperienced young Gunners can do a job for us in a really tough test away to the Saints.

Lacazette looked sharp, as did the other summer signing Sead Kolasinac and there were some impressive performances from the young Gunners as well.

We always see a fair few young Gunners and some lesser used members of the Arsenal squad during the pre-season games and there is always at least one who catches the eye and gets us fans excited about their future playing career.

In an interview on Arsenal.com, the Frenchman talked about the two young Gunners that got the goals against Benfica and revealed exactly why Arsenal do not need another forward.

Recent years have not seen too many players progress through the Arsenal ranks but could we now be set for a glut of young Gunners coming through?

That made it two wins from two for the young Gunners after they won their first game against Derby County and Wilshere started in central midfield in that game as well as he steps up his latest recovery from injury.

If the Arsenal and England star Jack Wilshere had not played 90 minutes for the under 21s on Monday, scoring a great goal which was not enough to help the young Gunners get the win they needed to win automatic promotion to the top division, I reckon that he would be in line for a first start of the season for the senior side on Thursday night.

If the Frenchman sees that as more important than a Europa League result we are likely to see fringe players and young Gunners take on the Germans so do not be surprised if we get beat as Cologne are likely to take it much more seriously?

Theo must be desperate to get back into action after his long spell on the sidelines following a cruciate ligament injury and having these young Gunners beat his club records while he is recovering must make it even worse, but it is all good news for the Gunners.

First off there has been reports that several young Gunners supporters were left flabbergasted on a tour of the Emirates last week, when they were told by PR staff that Alexis will definitely be on his way this summer.

In come Jack Wilshere, Walcott and Giroud and we also have the combative Coquelin in the holding midfield position so the young Gunners in the team can express themselves without worrying too much about leaving the defence exposed.

At least they will be fit and fresh for Arsenal and I am sure that both young Gunners will be keen to make their mark on the first team.

Those options would be Alex Iwobi and Oxlade - Chamberlain and both young Gunners have been in good form recently.

And that attitude needed to take your chance when it comes is just what the Ox is urging from the young Gunners in the Arsenal squad to face Galatasaray tonight, as revealed in an Arsenal.com report.

When Cesc Fabregas broke onto the scene it certainly was the truth and when he was a young but well experienced player at Arsenal, he was surrounded by other young Gunners.

So up until now Wenger's decision to let these two talented young Gunners go and play for someone else is paying off.

Although the value of Lehman should serve as encouragement to martinez and also the young gunners.

The 17 - year old has been with the young Gunners since he was nine years old and has been impressing his coaches and playing above his natural age group ever since, so it is no surprise that he is now a regular with the under 23s rather than our under 18 side.

Now, the Boss is trying to give some young Gunners the chance to prove their potentials at the Barclays Asia games.

Both can play at right back as well so which, if any, of the two young Gunners do you expect to see more from in an Arsenal shirt?

I'm sure many of you will remember the day, 19th December 2012, when Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was in that infamous photo along with five young Gunners, all whom had just signed new five year contracts.

We all know the usual drill with Arsenal in the Capital One Cup, or whatever name it had in the past, as Arsene Wenger tends to use the competition, especially in the earlier rounds, to give the young Gunners and fringe players some valuable game time and experience.

While the circumstances that had put Arsenal and Arsene Wenger under serious pressure meant that the manager felt he could not select his usual team full of young Gunners for our first Capital One Cup game of the season, Wenger still made many changes to the Arsenal starting line up.

Since then the young Frenchman has been playing for the academy in the under 21 league and has established himself as one of the group of young Gunners, along with the likes of Iwobi and Willock, that are seen as the most likely to be the next to break into the first team.

There are many fine young Gunners.