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Our young Gunners were beaten by a strong Chelsea side at Cobham on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The game began evenly, with neither side creating many clear attacking opportunities in the opening stages.<\/p>\n
Our first effort on target came after 20 minutes, when Kyran Thompson slipped a pass through to Brando Bailey-Joseph, but his left-footed strike was comfortably saved.<\/p>\n
Soon after, we created another excellent chance. Louis Zecevic John found Alex Marciniak in behind, but, like Bailey-Joseph earlier, he was denied by a solid save from Bernal.<\/p>\n
Chelsea took the lead on the half-hour mark. Jack Porter well saved Olutayo Subuloye\u2019s initial header, but Dante Waite reacted quickest to fire the rebound into the top corner.<\/p>\n
The hosts doubled their advantage just before the break, capitalising on a defensive lapse as Sol Gordon converted to give Chelsea firm control at half-time.<\/p>\n
After the restart, Chelsea extended their lead through a stunning strike from Lewi Richards, who found the top corner from 25 yards.<\/p>\n
They added a fourth when Kobe Barbour was brought down in the penalty area, and Jashayde Mensah-Greenwood calmly converted from the spot.<\/p>\n
The result leaves us on 25 points from 21 games.<\/p>\n
Our under-18s continue their league campaign away at Crystal Palace on Saturday, April 18.<\/p>\n
Kick-off at Crystal Palace Training Ground is scheduled for 11am (UK time).<\/p>\n
Chelsea XI: <\/strong>Bernal, L.Richards, Waite, Subuloye (Diakite, 79), Alao, Gordon (Grimwade, 64), Badu (Eboue, 60), Greenwood (Ezenwata, 64), Nicoll-Jazuli, Barbour<\/p>\n Subs unused:<\/strong> Bell<\/p>\n Arsenal XI:<\/strong> Porter, Owusu-Gyasi, Hamill, Stachow, Mbala, Murisa, Hashi (Nwaneri, 58), Marciniak (Nduka, 58), Bailey-Joseph, John Zecevic, Thompson (Phillips, 68)<\/p>\n Subs unused:<\/strong> Lupinski, Sampang.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our young Gunners were beaten by a strong Chelsea side at Cobham on Tuesday afternoon. WHAT HAPPENED The game began evenly, with neither side creating many clear attacking opportunities in … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}