Arsenal’s Under 18′s fought out a tough draw with their Chelsea counterparts this morning at the Blues’ Cobham training complex. The Gunners were a touch lucky to return across London with a point after home midfielder Josh McEachran twice put the ball in the net – only to see both strikes ruled out for offside.
Free-scoring striker Luke Freeman had further chances to add to his 14 goals so far this season but Chelsea’s Sam Walker was in inspired form. Conor Henderson was also denied by Walker in the first half which could have gone either way. Coached by Arsenal’s former Under 16 boss Dermot Drummy, the Blues looked busy all game and they had numerous chances to snatch the win for themselves. McEachran scored twice yet the tight Arsenal offside-trap saw the goals ruled out.
Elsewhere, Arsenal’s Under 16′s had a better result, beating Chelsea’s Under 16′s 3-1. Alban Bunjaku scored a brace while Samir Bihmoutine continued his ruthless form with another strike. Zak Ansah also missed a penalty.
Article By – J.Sanderson
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comment by benny
Alban Bunjaku gonna be next big star at Arsenal.I hope Wenger will “speed up” his developement and ga
ve him a chance to play for reserves or why not in the cup games.
comment by stella art whar
ha ha,good wanker ansah missed a penalty,teach the cunt to be so arrogant,prick.
comment by Swoosh star
stella art whar – wth, you people make me sick!, you suppose to support these kids not say that, please keep opinions like that to yourself!
comment by Phil
http://www.cfcnet.co.uk/2010/02/06/chelsea-u-18s-0-0-arsenal-u-18s-blues-earn-point-in-hard-fought-derby/
A Chelsea take on the game, if you so wish to read.
comment by SanzB
Glad he missed a penalty. Deserved it.
comment by Rushane
@ swoosh i think the reason why he said that is because of the comments ansah made about being a manu fan, and he also was going for manu to beat arsenal.but i dnt think it was ansah facebook i think it was someone else trying to be him.
comment by Swoosh star
rushane- i know about the whole propergander mate
, and it’s zak’s fb, so what if said those things, he’s still a 15 year old kid, i also slate my local team as i said earlier, don’t we all do it!!!, so seriously, everyone hating on the kid, haven’t got a job?!
comment by stella art whar
swoosh your a mug shut up
comment by stella art whar
so what if he’s fucking 15 he’s not fucking 5 is he,he knows between right and wrong and what he done was to get a responce,if he hates it at arsenal so much prehaps he should get a move to man united
comment by Swoosh star
stella – a mug is what you drink out of you clown, i see how childish you are, you’ve nothing better to do than slate a kid, as i said already, YOURR A CLOWN!
comment by Swoosh star
wtf are you on, he was talking to his mates, his friends from skl!,his friends that support arsenal, gonner chris isn’t one of those, he’s stranger to him, he had no right to comment on his fb!
comment by Swoosh star
he’s not the only united fan in the youth, ben glaslow is one and so is rhys murphy!, and i’m guessing your going to say arsenal should not sign them cause they support the manure?
comment by Kep
What the kid did was wrong. You can’t make excuses for his lack of professionalism. It’s a shame he missed the penalty, it could have been another goal for Arsenal. The kid is an Arsenal player even if he said stuff he shouldn’t have, and as long as he wears that jersey we have to suck it up and support him.
People slating the kid have a right to vent their anger but should also remember that he is 16 and we all mature at different rates. He’ll realise his mistakes sooner rather than later and that’s probably messing with his head. He did wrong but while he still plays for Arsenal, we can only hope that the club will deal with him, we should still try and support him even we don’t necessarily have to like him.
comment by Kep
And swoosh, if it was just a conversation with his “friends” how did it leak out? Facebook isn’t public. How did GoonerChris et al find out what he’d said? Either his friends sold him out or he was openly gloating. It’s fine to support other teams, Fabregas supports Barca, Walcott is a Liverpool Fan and even Bentley supported Spurs. The key thing is to act like a professional and respect the team you play for.
comment by Swoosh star
kep- it was, facebook has become public, nathan baker from villa was infact banned from this years carling cup cause of that, i think fans shouldn’t add footballers!, i also think this blog shouln’t give too much about these youngsters, they need privacy and i can gurrante you that 60% of zak fb friends added him cause they over heard is name on mr.sandersons’s blog.
comment by Me
“The midfield battle was quickly becoming an interesting one. Arsenal’s group of the powerful and tall Chuks Aneke with Henderson and Ozyakup, backed up by the tenacious Yennaris were, on paper, likely to be too much for Chelsea’s lightweight trio.” OMG this looks so familiar.
the most famous comment when our first team plays theirs, just the opposite, we have the “lightweight trio” 
comment by shane
Kep….his lack of proffesionalism comes from the fact that he is 15!!! Who cares, and for the people cussing at him, I can only hope you arent an adult. Yelling and insulting a 15 year. Crazy. Everyone seems to act like they were all fully mature in the mentality at 15. By the way kep, read my comment up there about why Fabregas supporting Barca, Walcott for Liverpool, etc is deferent scenerio.
comment by Kep
Shane at 15, you should still know better. Arsenal are the team he plays for and if you are going to be in the public eye, maturity and professionalism have to come in quicker. While cussing the kid is a bit extreme, he just needs to be a bit wiser. I do understand from what swoosh said, that it was just fun with his mates on Facebook, but the kid is still in the public eye and if there’s chance things will be taken the wrong way, he needs to be a bit wiser.
comment by wilson
J.Sanderson tell us more about the game
comment by stella art whar
The others support united,but were they being pricks about it,anyway the pen miss is payback lets hope united snap him up then he can carry on being a prick but in a united shirt.
comment by Kep
I read your comment shane and you make a lot of sense. Kids will be kids. It’s just I grew up in a different world and at 15, you sort of knew better than at 15 now. The kid didn’t kill anyone or do anything excessively wrong, it’s just that people feel personally affronted when it comes to their football team. Some idiots end up talking about booing the kid or worse and at his age, he doesn’t need that from anyone. With the amount of friends he has on facebook, he just needs to be careful with what he says.
And I was shocked that Wilshere supports West Ham!! Are any of these kids Gooners?
comment by Swoosh star
stella – are you mad, did you know this kid already has 1 yr shcolar and already has 4 yr pro contract!!!, arsenal will never him go!, i’m telling you now, this kid will not been in a united shirt buh a gonner shirt!
comment by Merida
J, why was Nico captain?
comment by stella art whar
i bet he nearly exploded when he knew his dad was working with rooney on that t.v show,i bet he got all sorts of goodies from his hero.
comment by Swoosh star
well,chucks, benik, wynter, yanneris, henderson and reice charles-cook are the arsenal fans i’ve meet from the youth team
comment by Swoosh star
stella, you sound like you’ve a jealous issue!
comment by AmeriGoon
Angha played for the U-16′s, right? Anyone know how well he did? He sounds like a good prospect.
comment by Gooner
And he’s actually a gooner!
comment by shane
Kep….it is funny because I am willing to bet alot of the ones that were fans of Arsenal are actually the foreign players. You here all the time from players that there dream is Arsenal. Loic Remy, Gervinho (cant believe we havent signed him), Ryan Babel, etc.
comment by AmeriGoon
You know, if it weren’t an ACN year, I think Wenger might have gone for Gervinho in January. He’s on a tear for Lille, but Wenger was looking for more immediate striker help while Bendtner was injured and (still) recovering.
comment by Sami S
hey im the guy from the conversation (Sami Steinbock)
also saw Reice Charles-Cook, he’s a massive United fan and also had a pretty dickhead status…
add me on facebook if you want…
Lataz
comment by cj
i dont understand these ungrateful idiots. ok u are free to supprt who u like but dnt be so disrespectful to the club tht employs u and will give a chance to make it as a footballer becuase i am sure there are some genuine young footballers that are arsenal fans that would love to be in ur position. a 15 or 16 year old should kno tht. if what ppl are saying is true i dont realy care for zak ansah no more and couldnt give a shit if he makes it here
comment by cj
and p.s watch out for jernade meade’s status tommorow as he is a chelsea fan.
comment by james
why do all these players want to be Manure fans? The’re just a bunch of arrogant c*nts.
comment by Anthony
The fact that he’s a Yanited fan isn’t a problem. Anyone who thinks it is needs to pull their head out of their arse.
It’s the fact he insulted the first team calling them “shit” and a “1 man team”.
Should be released for that alone
comment by Kentpaul
It is quiet obvioua why alot of these kids are Manchester United fans because when alot of them were born back in the early to mid ninteen ninties, and that is when the English Premier League took of and the most succesfull team that won absolutly everything domesticly and in 1999 with the UEFA European Cup and then FIFA World Club championship at the end of the year in Japan was Manchester United, and kids being kids they tend to follow the most succesfull football teams, allways have and they allways will, well that is my explanation for the Manchester United love fest, amongst the Arsenal U16′s and U18′s football teams anyway.
comment by cj
very true kentpaul couldnt of put it better myself
comment by Bedeuro
I would like to release him, but he is to much of a talent to let go for a free.
comment by Gooner
He won’t make it. Only thing he has is finishing.
comment by Kentpaul
I personally think he will make it because he knows how to put the ball into the back of the net and as a striker that is what matters most, but having said all that insulting his clubs own supporters will not do him any favours in the future, because some people have long memories.
comment by bobbygee
The young guns did better than the older the guys. http://bobbygee.wordpress.com/
comment by cj
then he is type of player the first are missing then isnt it gooner. what a stupid. one of many on this website
comment by diddio
ansah mite aswell leave bcoz fans have already turned on him and he has even made it yet and with this attitude he wnt mke it anywhere. arsenal should take bk their scholarship. i h8 this little cunt now
comment by Phil
Some of you guys are utterly pathetic. You get your cock in hand at the first sign of J telling you that he’s a fantastic prospect and continue to tug over him for ages, then when it comes out he’s NOT an Arsenal fan, you want to throw him out like yesterday’s rubbish.
Bollocks like this is why most people think Arsenal fans are complete cunts. Man up and understand that people often don’t support the team they play for and LET A TEENAGER BE A TEENAGER. I mean seriously. Every time one of your kids does something you don’t like it’s as if he’s suddenly rubbish. See Merida to Atléico, Afobe to Barca and recently the idea Savic isn’t coming.
Fucking bunch of morons at times. I know that doesn’t represent everyone but dear me, it’s certainly the majority. I bet 95% of you haven’t even seen him play and just go with what you’re told.
comment by Phil
And furthermore, there’s like one comment in here about your Under-18s. Wonder if there’d have been more if you’d have won. Heads, sand, buried.