Arsenal included 14-year-old Max Dowman of their first-team coaching session earlier than their Premier League conflict towards Chelsea on Sunday.
Mikel Arteta’s facet wish to get again on monitor after struggling back-to-back defeats away to Newcastle United and Inter.
The Gunners at the moment sit 10 factors behind Liverpool within the Premier League and a defeat at Stamford Bridge on Sunday would put one other enormous dent of their title ambitions.
Arteta and his gamers had been making their closing preparations forward of the sport towards Chelsea and Dowman was a shock inclusion among the many first-team squad.
The 14-year-old midfielder is extremely regarded by Arsenal’s academy and is broadly tipped to finally make his breakthrough into the senior squad.
In September, Dowman made historical past by changing into the youngest-ever goalscorer within the UEFA Youth League.
Talking earlier than he left Arsenal’s academy to hitch Norwich Metropolis’s first-team teaching workers, Jack Wilshere stated of Dowman: ‘There’s at all times a priority when fielding such a younger participant in these matches, however in case you’re adequate, you’re sufficiently old.
‘He might be extra constant however he’s solely 14 and hasn’t even began his GCSEs but.
‘We have to discover a steadiness of letting him play and revel in due to his age but in addition attempting to get as a lot work into him as we are able to.’
Declan Rice was not seen within the video launch of Arsenal’s coaching session on Saturday as he continues to get well from a damaged toe.
Requested whether or not Rice will be capable of play towards Chelsea, Arteta stated on Friday: ‘I’ve to be very obscure on that one as a result of there’s no readability on whether or not he’s going to be match for the weekend.
‘What I can say is that he hasn’t skilled but and it’s not clear whether or not he’s going to be out there or to not play.’
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