{"id":14128,"date":"2022-09-18T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T14:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=14128"},"modified":"2022-12-26T07:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T07:44:38","slug":"15-yr-old-ethan-nwanieri-stars-for-arsenal-against-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=14128","title":{"rendered":"15 yr old Ethan Nwanieri stars for Arsenal against Brentford."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arsenal\u2019s Ethan Nwaneri becomes youngest Premier League player at 15<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Youngster comes on at age of 15 years and 181 days<\/li><li>Liverpool\u2019s Harvey Elliott previously held the record.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u27053 goals <br>\u27053 points<br>\u2705Nice kick about with the boys <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Arsenal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COYG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COYG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREARS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREARS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AKVLEU84V3\">pic.twitter.com\/AKVLEU84V3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ethan Nwaneri (@EthanNwameri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EthanNwameri\/status\/1571484619400257544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifteen-year-old Ethan Nwaneri became the youngest player in Premier League history when he came on as a substitute for Arsenal as they returned to the top of the Premier League with a comfortable&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2022\/sep\/18\/brentford-arsenal-premier-league-match-report\">3-0 win at Brentford<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nwaneri, who is 15 years and 181 days old, came on in the second minute of stoppage time, the first player under 16 to play in the competition. Harvey Elliott, now at Liverpool, previously held the record at 16 years and 30 days when he played for Fulham in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/0_GettyImages-1421034971.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/0_GettyImages-1421034971.jpg 615w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/0_GettyImages-1421034971-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"b99ef39a-12bf-489f-8e25-ddc28ae48d49\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2022\/sep\/18\/brentford-arsenal-premier-league-match-report\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8790074c4be1f04ec61f6b9f5abae9e5d18efe47\/0_41_2493_1495\/master\/2493.jpg?width=460&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=70015e23bbe1e934c3e8d4d42bd52847\" alt=\"Arsenal's F\u00e1bio Vieira scores their third goal against Brentford\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>William Saliba headed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/arsenal\">Arsenal<\/a>&nbsp;in front in the 17th minute, rising to angle a corner from Bukayo Saka in off the far post. Another header, 11 minutes later, doubled Arsenal\u2019s advantage when Grant Xhaka picked out Gabriel Jesus with a perfectly floated cross from the left which the Brazilian met powerfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was put beyond Brentford in the fourth minute after the break thanks to a wonderful strike from outside the box by the Portuguese midfielder F\u00e1bio Vieira, which rattled in off a post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal\u2019s Ethan Nwaneri becomes youngest Premier League player at 15 Youngster comes on at age of 15 years and 181 daysLiverpool\u2019s Harvey Elliott previously held the record. \u27053 goals \u27053 points\u2705Nice kick about with the boys @Arsenal #COYG #BREARS pic.twitter.com\/AKVLEU84V3&mdash; Ethan Nwaneri (@EthanNwameri) September 18, 2022 Fifteen-year-old Ethan Nwaneri became the youngest player in Premier &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14133,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions\/14133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}