{"id":564,"date":"2026-03-06T06:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=564"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:34:18","slug":"u18s-preview-arsenal-v-brighton-pre-match-report-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"U18s preview: Arsenal v Brighton | Pre-Match Report | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Our under-18s will be aiming to return to winning ways on Saturday as we welcome Brighton &#038; Hove Albion to Sobha Realty Training Centre in the Under-18s Premier League. Kick-off is scheduled for 12pm (UK).<\/p>\n<p>Our young Gunners will be eager to respond after a difficult outing last time out, falling to a 4-1 defeat against Norwich City.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"5b0d048b-c6b0-4c17-9ffc-74bd607a055f\" data-embed-button=\"video_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.full\" data-video-embed-up-next-tray=\"default\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<\/article>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>The Opposition<\/h3>\n<p>Brighton have enjoyed a strong campaign so far and currently sit fourth in the Under-18s Premier League South, collecting 28 points from their 17 matches. Their record of eight wins, four draws and five defeats highlights their consistency throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Seagulls showed plenty of resilience in their most recent fixture, battling back from two goals down and with 10 men to secure a point away at Southampton. Goals from Jacob Parsons and Bode Newnham-Reeve sealed an impressive comeback on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Kasvosve has been Brighton\u2019s standout performer in front of goal, netting nine times in 17 league appearances, including four goals in his last four matches.<\/p>\n<p>The sides shared the spoils in an entertaining 2-2 draw earlier this season. We twice took the lead through Kyran Thompson and Brando-Bailey Joseph, but two free-kicks from Younes Ibrahim ensured Brighton claimed a point.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"a42c3449-e12e-4464-85c6-b2aaaa3082ee\" data-embed-button=\"video_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.full\" data-video-embed-up-next-tray=\"default\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<\/article>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>How to follow<\/h3>\n<p>Live updates will be provided throughout the evening on our <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arsenalacademy\" data-entity-type=\"external\">academy\u2019s official X account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the final whistle, be sure to catch an interview with one of our under-18s players on <a href=\"https:\/\/arsenal.com\" data-entity-type=\"external\">Arsenal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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":"<p>Our under-18s will be aiming to return to winning ways on Saturday as we welcome Brighton &#038; Hove Albion to Sobha Realty Training Centre in the Under-18s Premier League. Kick-off &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","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\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}