\n<\/p>\n
Our young Gunners suffered defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Goals from Darius Lane, Bailey Palmer and Bode Newnham-Reeve secured the victory for the Seagulls and proved enough to overcome our under-18s.<\/p>\n
We fell behind early on when Jacob Parsons slipped a pass through to Lane, who cut inside before firing into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
Brighton nearly doubled their advantage soon after when a corner drifted through the crowd at the near post and reached Isaiah Alakiu at the back post, but he blazed his effort over from close range.<\/p>\n
We threatened an equaliser after winning the ball high up in the Brighton half, but Alex Marciniak\u2019s resulting effort rolled wide.<\/p>\n
However, the visitors did extend their lead just before the break. Palmer collected the ball outside the box and unleashed a superb strike that flew into the top corner.<\/p>\n
Brighton added a third after the restart when Newnham-Reeve drove forward with the ball before finishing emphatically into the top corner.<\/p>\n
Despite our efforts to respond, we were unable to find a way back into the game.<\/p>\n
The result leaves our under-18s on 21 points from 17 games in the league this season.<\/p>\n
Our under-18s continue their league campaign away to Ipswich Town on Saturday, March 14.<\/p>\n
Kick-off at Playford Road is scheduled for 12pm (UK time).<\/p>\n
Arsenal XI:<\/strong> Lupinski, Owusu-Gyasi, Pedro (Sampang 62), Murisa, Stachow, Mbala, Nwaneri, Hashi (Frohock 62), Marciniak, Zecevic-John, Thompson (Nduka 62)<\/p>\n Subs unused: Chapman, Lo-Tutala<\/p>\n Brighton XI:<\/strong> Doyle, Outen, Anah, Alakiu, Ferdinand, Brennan, Newnham-Reeve (Evans, 86), Lane (Cullinane, 56), Parsons, Kasvosve (Crutchett, 72), Palmer (Oppong, 72)<\/p>\n Subs unused: Rutter<\/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 suffered defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday morning. Goals from Darius Lane, Bailey Palmer and Bode Newnham-Reeve secured the victory for the Seagulls and proved … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","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\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}