One other day, one other report for 15-year-old Max Dowman. However Arsenal’s teenage prodigy is taking every thing in his stride, in keeping with his supervisor Mikel Arteta.
The winger had already written himself into Arsenal’s historical past books by changing into the second-youngest participant to characterize the membership and second-youngest to play within the Premier League – with team-mate Ethan Nwaneri holding each information.
However on Wednesday Dowman turned the youngest participant – at 15 years and 302 days previous – to begin a match for Arsenal as he starred within the EFL Cup win over Brighton.
Dowman made his Premier League debut off the bench in Arsenal’s 5-0 win over Leeds in August – however his expertise has had everybody on the membership excited for a very long time.
He has been coaching with the primary staff since he was 14 and was one of many standout gamers on Arsenal’s pre-season tour.
Arteta made 10 modifications to the aspect that beat Crystal Palace on Sunday and his youthful aspect contained 4 youngsters – together with Dowman and Andre Harriman-Annous who had been each making their full debuts.
“A tiny smile, that is what you get with him,” Arteta stated when requested how Dowman reacted when he heard he was beginning.
“For him every thing is pure, for him every thing is OK. It is the best way he performs and that is the key, that he does not make a giant fuss of it.
“He simply does what he does finest, which is to play soccer. To play soccer with a variety of braveness and willpower and at present once more, he has proven some unbelievable ability, some capability to run previous gamers at that degree within the Premier League at 15. It is positively one thing particular.”
Dowman once more confirmed his wonderful dribbling capability and in a single notable run left Brighton’s Diego Gomez scrambling to maintain up.
He accomplished probably the most dribbles (5), gained probably the most fouls (4), and gained probably the most duels (9) of any participant on the pitch.
“We made 10 modifications, we performed gamers that by no means performed collectively, but we made two large debuts for Max and Andre,” Arteta added.
“That feeling of giving the chance to someone and fulfilling a dream is exclusive, and I am very completely satisfied that issues turned out to be very constructive, and we managed to win the sport.”
