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18y/o CM, Ife Ibrahim David on the bench for Arsenal away at Ipswich Town in the EFL Carabao Cup 3rd Round.

Arsenal already up 1-0 through wonderboy, Max Dowman.


28y/o FW, JohnBosco Kalu subbed in on 68mins and scored ⚽️ in Beitar Jerusalem's 3-1 home win vs Maccabi Petach Tikva in the Israeli Ligat Ha'al. His 1st goal in 3 league games (1 start)

Keith Andrews just raised our hopes only to not give Frederick his Senior bow today. Reading made it a contest so Keith did not wanna risk Frederick. Lol

Well, at least, a first matchday squad appearance. The knee is not a joint you rush into senior match action. Benjy's time is coming.

TheSuperNerd:
19y/o FW, Joshua Ajala starts for West Ham Utd in the EFL Carabao Cup 3rd round vs Fulham.

Captain Bassey on the bench. Alex Iwobi not listed at all as he is rested.

Benjamin Frederick makes his first senior matchday squad at Brentford. He starts from the bench.

18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 FW, Chizaram Ezenwata played all 90mins as Captain in Chelsea U21's 2-1 away loss at Wycombe Wanderers in the EFL Trophy Southern Group C - Round 2.

21y/o 🇮🇪🇳🇬 CB, Justin Osagie played all 90mins for Chelsea U21s.

29y/o Winger/FW, Fred Onyedinma was on the Wycombe bench.

TheSuperNerd:
Keith Andrews just raised our hopes only to not give Frederick his Senior bow today. Reading made it a contest so Keith did not wanna risk Frederick. Lol

Well, at least, a first matchday squad appearance. The knee is not a joint you rush into senior match action. Benjy's time is coming.

Meanwhile these two guys who should have repped us Udogie and Adarabioyo were on the losing side with Spurs. Richarlison head strong!!!!

Ife Ibrahim David subbed in on 85mins for Arsenal in their 4-2 Carabao Cup 3rd round win away at Ipswich Town.

Chuba Akpom subbed in on 61mins and scored⚽️ against his former club, Arsenal.

TheSuperNerd:
18y/o CM, Ife Ibrahim David on the bench for Arsenal away at Ipswich Town in the EFL Carabao Cup 3rd Round.

Arsenal already up 1-0 through wonderboy, Max Dowman.


28y/o FW, JohnBosco Kalu subbed in on 68mins and scored ⚽️ in Beitar Jerusalem's 3-1 home win vs Maccabi Petach Tikva in the Israeli Ligat Ha'al. His 1st goal in 3 league games (1 start)

19y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 GK, Khari Ranson was the hero for Arsenal U21s today as he indeed led as Captain from the back for all 90mins, making 9 big saves in their 2-1 away win at Leyton Orient in the EFL Trophy Southern Group F. MOTM performance🏅

18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 LCB, Josh Ogunnaike also played 90mins for Arsenal U21s in their win. He recorded the highest defensive contributions (13) in the game.💪🏽

16y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CAM/FW, Emerson Nwaneri played 58mins for Arsenal U21s.

18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CF, Andre Harriman-Annous scored⚽️ the matchwinner after subbing in on 69mins for Arsenal U21s.💯

26y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CB Joseph Olowu lasted 72mins for Leyton Orient.

19y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CF Nicholas Oyekunle lasted 45mins and ofcourse scored⚽️ Leyton Orient's goal.

19y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 LCB, Philip Chinedu did not feature off the bench for Leyton Orient.

TheSuperNerd:
19y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CF, Nicholas Oyekunle scores⚽️ for Leyton Orient vs Arsenal U21s in the EFL Trophy Southern Grp Round. Game locked at 1-1 now HT.

26y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CB, Joseph Olowu starts for Leyton Orient.

19y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 LCB, Philip Chinedu on the bench for Leyton Orient.

19y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 GK, Khari Ranson starts as captain for Arsenal U21s today in Goal.

18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 LCB/LB, Josh Ogunnaike starts as LCB for Arsenal U21s.

16y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 MF, Emerson Nwaneri starts as well for Arsenal U21s.

18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CF, Andre Harriman-Annous on the bench for Arsenal U21s.

17y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 Winger, Boluwatife Shofowoke subbed in on 75mins for Peterborough in their 7-6 Penalty Shootout win over Barnsley after a 3-3 regulation draw to advance from the EFL Carabao Cup 3rd Round.
In 15mins+, he won 3 duels, completed 3 dribbles and created one chance.

FT Bristol City 0-1 Lincoln City (Championship)

Gibson Yah played all 90mins and ended up on the losing side while Deji Elerewe played all 90 for the winning side.

Elijah Adebayo subbed in on 78mins.

Daniel Oyegoke subbed in on 71mins.

TheSuperNerd:
22y/o 🇳🇱🇳🇬 CDM, Gibson Yah starts for Bristol City in the Championship vs Lincoln City that has 23y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CB, Deji Elerewe starting as well.

28y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CF, Elijah Adebayo on the bench for Bristol City.

23y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 RB, Daniel Oyegoke on the bench for Lincoln.

26y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬🇬🇭 FW, Tanto Olaofe on the bench for Lincoln.

26y/o DM, Afeez Aremu played 64mins in Aberdeen's 4-0 away win at Motherwell in the Scottish Premiership.

24y/o winger, Ibrahim Said subbed in for Motherwell on 53mins but could not save his club from a spanking.

28y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 FW, Toyosi Olusanya started and lasted 72mins for Aberdeen.

21y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 CB, Ashley Phillips started and played all 90mins for Middlesbrough in their comeback 2-2 home draw vs Millwall in the Skybet EFL Championship.

18y/o 🇪🇦🇳🇬 Winger, David Otorbi subbed in on 70mins in Valencia's 1-0 away win at Deportivo Alaves in La Liga.

20y/o CM, Victor Ozor Okeke started in midfield and played 64mins for IK Brage in their 1-1 home draw vs Sandvikens IF in the Swedish Superettan.

19y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 FW, Joshua Ajala played 51mins for West Ham Utd in their 3-2 home loss vs Fulham in the EFL Carabao cup 3rd Round.

Some of the Arsenal Academy Naija Dual-Nat lads involved today...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬🇬🇭 GK, Khari Bolaji Mavuli Ranson, 19

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CAM/FW, Emerson Nwaneri, 16

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CF/FW, Andre Harriman-Annous, 18

TheSuperNerd:
21y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 CB, Ashley Phillips started and played all 90mins for Middlesbrough in their comeback 2-2 home draw vs Millwall in the Skybet EFL Championship.

18y/o 🇪🇦🇳🇬 Winger, David Otorbi subbed in on 70mins in Valencia's 1-0 away win at Deportivo Alaves in La Liga.

20y/o CM, Victor Ozor Okeke started in midfield and played 64mins for IK Brage in their 1-1 home draw vs Sandvikens IF in the Swedish Superettan.

19y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 FW, Joshua Ajala played 51mins for West Ham Utd in their 3-2 home loss vs Fulham in the EFL Carabao cup 3rd Round.

the way CB options take plenty for SE in this period eeeh

This nwaneri, any relation to the one in dortmund?

TheSuperNerd:
Some of the Arsenal Academy Naija Dual-Nat lads involved today...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬🇬🇭 GK, Khari Bolaji Mavuli Ranson, 19

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CAM/FW, Emerson Nwaneri, 16

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CF/FW, Andre Harriman-Annous, 18

Yes. Younger bro to Ethan.

Amedino99:
This nwaneri, any relation to the one in dortmund?

Onyedinma Komekn's boo that year lol.

TheSuperNerd:
18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 FW, Chizaram Ezenwata played all 90mins as Captain in Chelsea U21's 2-1 away loss at Wycombe Wanderers in the EFL Trophy Southern Group C - Round 2.

21y/o 🇮🇪🇳🇬 CB, Justin Osagie played all 90mins for Chelsea U21s.

29y/o Winger/FW, Fred Onyedinma was on the Wycombe bench.

chrisooblog:
Onyedinma Komekn's boo that year lol.

The guy never win Ballon D'or?

TheSuperNerd:
Osimhen is #1 in FootballRanked's Top 50 players by Elo outside the top 5 leagues — weekly update


Top 10:
1️⃣ 🇳🇬 Victor Osimhen (Galatasaray) — Elo 1804
2️⃣ 🇧🇪 Leandro Trossard (Beşiktaş) — 1803
3️⃣ 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi (Inter Miami) — 1793
4️⃣ 🇲🇽 Julián Quiñones (Al-Qadisiyah) — 1785
5️⃣ 🇵🇹 Diogo Costa (Porto) — 1782
6️⃣ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ollie Watkins (Al-Hilal) — 1773
7️⃣ 🇪🇬 Mohamed Salah (Trabzonspor) — 1770
8️⃣ 🇳🇴 Patrick Berg (Bodø/Glimt) — 1751
9️⃣ 🇧🇷 Gabriel Martinelli (Al-Hilal) — 1742
🔟 🇧🇷 Casemiro (Inter Miami) — 1736

Sorry this ranking, what criteria does it use?

Is it just performance this season alone? Or past seasons are included?

To answer those who feels Benin bagged a more "prestigious" friendly.

If you took the time to truly observe the graphics, you would know.

Also, I know you wont bother with the Criteria if Osimhen was not #1.

Blueelf:
Sorry this ranking, what criteria does it use?

Is it just performance this season alone? Or past seasons are included?

20y/o MF, Izuchukwu Okonkwo makes the bench for Slavia Praha's main team in their Czech Cup game today. He features prominently for Slavia B.

Ayaosi also on the bench. Isife starts.

Is David Moses Injured? Has hardly featured this season.

3 naija lads at Slavia are injured currently

19y/o CM/AM, Mubarak suleiman - Sidelined till late September

22y/o CM,David Moses - Sidelined till Mid October

26y/o CB, Igoh Ogbu - Sidelined since June till Late September.

Truidstarr:
Is David Moses Injured? Has hardly featured this season.

TheSuperNerd:
20y/o MF, Izuchukwu Okonkwo makes the bench for Slavia Praha's main team in their Czech Cup game today. He features prominently for Slavia B.

Ayaosi also on the bench. Isife starts.

TSN, chairman sir. This is about the U23s, would you know if there would be a tournament playoff for the Olympic qualifiers? I believe the last time after Osimhen, Chuks and co saved the team, they had to go for a tournament where we couldn't get our heavy hitters released by their clubs and ended up fielding available players and then we didn't qualify. If the qualifying format is still the same, how do we navigate it differently?

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Naija lads in the Czech MOL Cup Round 3... *Currently in action.

22y/o FW, Lucky Ezeh scores⚽️ for FC Zbrovjovka Brno.

19y/o FW, Abdullahi Umar scores⚽️ for Hradec Kralove.

The U23 Afcon proper which is the LA 2028 CAF qualifiers determinant will be held in Egypt but the dates have not been fixed yet so we dont know what window it would fall under for now.

So far, the Qualifying rounds of the U23 Afcon fall within the FIFA official windows so we should have nearly the best of our U23s executing the qualifiers from round 2 in November, 2026.

AndSunGorilla:
TSN, chairman sir. This is about the U23s, would you know if there would be a tournament playoff for the Olympic qualifiers? I believe the last time after Osimhen, Chuks and co saved the team, they had to go for a tournament where we couldn't get our heavy hitters released by their clubs and ended up fielding available players and then we didn't qualify. If the qualifying format is still the same, how do we navigate it differently?

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

TheSuperNerd:
3 naija lads at Slavia are injured currently

19y/o CM/AM, Mubarak suleiman - Sidelined till late September

22y/o CM,David Moses - Sidelined till Mid October

26y/o CB, Igoh Ogbu - Sidelined since June till Late September.

Alright. Thanks.

21y/o CM, Adam Yakubu played all 90mins in LNZ Cherkasy's 3-0 PK Shootout win after a goalless regulation period to advance to the Ukraianian Cup Round of 16.

I think Benin will also benefit from this match being Messi's final match, a scenario that was not known when the match was being signed. I expect them to make some money on the TV rights. If he had made his retirement known way earlier, they would have been priced out of the match by one of those Arab countries.

*just read it again, they are not getting anything from the match.

TheSuperNerd:
To answer those who feels Benin bagged a more "prestigious" friendly.

TheSuperNerd:
The U23 Afcon proper which is the LA 2028 CAF qualifiers determinant will be held in Egypt but the dates have not been fixed yet so we dont know what window it would fall under for now.

So far, the Qualifying rounds of the U23 Afcon fall within the FIFA official windows so we should have nearly the best of our U23s executing the qualifiers from round 2 in November, 2026.

Thanks boss. That said, if and when we qualify for the play offs, I think there should just be a contingency plan in case the playoffs are scheduled outside a FIFA window. Just like a plan B in case if you know what I mean.

By plan B, you clearly mean the homebased. Chelle knows this, but we still plan to have some foreign pros available when we make the U23 Afcon proper.

AndSunGorilla:
Thanks boss. That said, hould we qualify for the play offs, I think there should just be a contingency plan in case the playoffs are scheduled outside a FIFA window. Just like a plan B in case if you know what I mean.

TheSuperNerd:
By plan B, you clearly mean the homebased. Chelle knows this, but we still plan to have some foreign pros available when we make the U23 Afcon proper.

Yeah home-based and whoever could be released by their clubs. Of course, we want to have the best legs when possible. Thanks boss.

Cote D'Ivoire's Squad for the Sept/Oct International Break.

Malick Yacoulye of Brighton. Born in Mali to Ivorian Mum and Malian Dad but later moved to CIV and has repped CIV U23s, now earns a first time senior callup. Deserved.

🆕️Dual Nat recruitments:
Kassoum Ouattara (Besiktas).
Rayan Fofana (Le Harve).
Yann Gboho (Coventry City).

Missing: Amad Diallo, Simon Adingra.