Arsenal Under 18’s put their disappointing FA Youth Cup elimination behind them yesterday with a 4-0 win over Portsmouth in the Premier Academy League. Roarie Deacon bagged a classy brace to end his recent goal drought while Benik Afobe and Luke Freeman added one each in their personal battle to be top scorer.
McDermott
Byles – Boateng – Miquel – Brislen-Hall
Aneke – Yennaris – Meade
Deacon – Afobe – Freeman
Subs:- Dunn, Obed, Evina, Edge.
Arsenal looked to make an instant reaction to going out of the Youth Cup to Ipswich in midweek and snapped out of the traps. Early pressure tolled and following a lovely team move, Luke Freeman turned home the opener inside the opening three minutes. Portsmouth battled hard and could have had the equalizer but the hosts ended the first half in front.
The second period was just moments old when Roarie Deacon exploded into life and smashed the second to kill off the game. He would go on to add another late on but not before Benik Afobe bagged the third. It finished 4-0 at London Colney.
Also in action this weekend, Arsenal’s Under 16’s who also claimed a win against Portsmouth – 2-0. Swiss defender Martin Angha made his debut at this level as he is still waiting for the FA to ‘rubber stamp’ his registration to play for the Under 18’s. Without injured striker Zak Ansah, the Gunners lacked the cutting edge but still won 2-0, with Balkan winger Alban Bunjaku and defensive midfielder Samir Bihmoutine grabbing the goals.
Article By – J.Sanderson
is it me or am i seeing double in that lower picture??
Sanderson is the a star of this team beside ansah? I read bunjaku is very highly rated but I’ve seen u say in the past he’s not going to be anything special. Also how did angha perform?
J You got anynews on Barazite when he will be back to full fitness? As with not many forards at arsenal we could do with him.
At least all three sources agree on the score of the U-18 game now! Still some disagreement on the scorers though …
Took your time, J.
Is Bihmoutine a DM, thought he was a winger?
J, I really regret having to say this, given how much I usually respect and enjoy your work, but I believe it is almost certain that much of this article is pure misinformation and speculation -which are, of course, two journalistic cardinal sins.
I am sorry to question the credibility of this site, but frankly I think it has been exploiting the fact that details of Under 18 games are almost completely unverifiable. It is impossible to prove the veracity of J’s comments, however there always seems to be several hints in the under 18 articles (and I talk exclusively of the under 18 articles) that certain liberties have been taken.
For one, obviously, the fact that yesterday a report appeared on this website detailing a game that does not happen until next week. Pretty transparent really; I am quite certain J perused the Arsenal website and found a link which said similar things (such a link did appear temporarily). This was because of Arsenal.com’s notoriously slow updates, however it seems to have misled J…
There are invariably numerous inconsistencies, too, between youngguns, jeorge bird, and Arsenal.com. In this case the latter is often inexplicably the least reliable. However, the disparities are not just limited to goalscorers. Precise descriptions of the manner in which each goal is scored vary from site to site. It’s utterly bizarre. An anomaly.
And under 18 reports are notably shorter on details than the rest of the site. If J does not attend the game – which I suspect is often the case – and he doesn’t have access to any form of highlights, then reports should be entirely stripped of subjective comments, adjectives etc…
Maybe these 3 paragraph reports come from second-hand accounts, through J’s contacts…who knows? And that’s just it, nobody knows. Can anyone here really dispute whether Deacon’s brace was ‘classy’? Whether the second really was ‘smashed’ and as opposed to ‘bungled’ in to the net? This may seem trivial but I assure you it is not. Information is power. It’s damn important no matter how small. And if this is second-hand reportage, then the information is being reported here as fact, which is heresay and does not constitute journalism…
Again, as I say, I adore this site, but I do have to question this article and articles written in a similar vein. J has given us no reason not to. I implore J to be more accountable. Even if it is should a disclaimer at the bottom stipulating how much of this was seen, or something along the lines of ‘From J. Sanderson @ underhill’ etc…
Well said anonymouse.
Word…
You could always go and watch the game yourself. Or pay someone to go and watch the game for you – and start your own website.
i knew from day one that j wasn’t at the games and that his info is from the net and fans not club insiders lol
and fools keep asking what about this player and what about that player
when a youth player talks to his national press some fan will tell jay and he won’t link it
Guys. Please. There’s a lot of criticism going around, most of it directed at J, when in fact all Arsenal websites get it wrong once in a while.
As has been mentioned, Arsenal.com got this result wrong at first, as did Jeorge Bird. Away from this result, the very popular arseblog gets things wrong, as does the oddly popular ANR.
J is a blogger who does this on a completely free basis. He is providing you, and me, with a service. He is in no way compelled to do this. He does it because many, many people appreciate it. I hope people remember that he’s just human, having to make a living outside youngguns and can’t be at every game.
bird said it was 4-0 from the begining, he was at the game.
Tbh, j deserves his little bit of criticsm but its still a good site, the transfer updates are 2nd to none and he always has good information on scouts etc. I always check arsenalyouth and youngguns.
Arsenal
Fabianski; Coquelin, Silvestre, Campbell, Clichy; Eastmond, Denilson, Wilshere; Walcott, Vela, Rosicky
Subs: Almunia, Gallas, Senderos, Vermaelen, Traoré, Fábregas, Arshavin, Mérida, Eduardo
This is a good site, but there are some strange things – as well as the inaccuracies mentioned above – the fact he claims copyright on every single photo in every single article!
21 Fabianski
18 Silvestre
30 Traore
31 Campbell
37 Eastmond
04 Fabregas
14 Walcott
15 Denilson
35 Coquelin
38 Emmanuel-Thomas
12 Vela
Substitutes
24 Mannone, 34 Bartley, 07 Rosicky, 16 Ramsey, 23 Arshavin, 41 Frimpong, 09 Eduardo
I agree with anonymouse… J should admit his deficiencies rather than publish purposely misleading info.
Is this not a little bit annoying to anyone else. It isnt that we arent winning trophies. It is that we seem disinterested in winning one. I was cool to see the reserve squad in the carling cup but in the fa cup too? In a competition where Man Utd, Liverpool, everton, sunderland all out and Tottenham has a replay, you would think we would see this as a good oppertunity, but no. Anyone after watching that game that can honestly say an aging Sol Campbell, Sylvestre, Eastmond, Jay Thomas, Troare are good enough to be playing important games for Arsenal are lying to them selfs. The 2nd goal was scored by 2 stoke players attacking 4 Arsenal defenders. Sol couldnt mark 1 guy and Eastmond was just standing there watching. How is it that Aston Villa, Everton, Sunderland, Tottenham all have better back up centerbacks than us? Like I said, it isnt that we arent winning titles, it is that we dont seem to really want to win one.
All these people criticizing this blog have issues, if you don’t like the blog no one has a gun to your head forcing you to read it, J is a 18 year old taking time out to write this blog and answer how many questions. I appreciate this blog as before i started reading it i had no idea of the talent we have in the club so probably would have been one of those idiot Arsenal fan’s demanding we spent £50 million a year on players. keep up the good work J
@ J sanderson
I need to tell you that Alban Bunjaku is from Kosovo, not from the balkan, and please take this as advice bc there are lot of Arsenal Fans here in Kosovo, and to tell the truth I was shocked when I saw that, we are proud that we have our reprensentative in our beloved team.
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people need to know than this is a blog…ok …a BLOG…..like a journal write by a 18 year old arsenal fan……J is not pay for it,is not a journalist even if his work it’s unbelievable well done for a so young man……so it could make a mistake sometimes, it happens ;-)