Arsenal vs Ipswich 4-2 — Carabao Cup
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Dowman is sixteen and he scored twice
Arteta changed nine players and handed Kepa the gloves. Alongside Gabriel he started Marli Salmon, seventeen, who had never begun a competitive match. Max Dowman answered after six minutes. He wins the ball high himself, Eze flicks it back into his path, he wrong-foots Kipre and drives it past Walton. Ninety seconds into the second half he did it again, this time from a dinked ball by Zubimendi. At sixteen years and 258 days he becomes the second player that young to score twice in a match for a Premier League club, behind Wayne Rooney. In between, Merino had chipped Madueke through after Walton fluffed a clearance, then went and got his own first goal of the season from a Bruno Guimarães pass. Ipswich pulled two back through Mehmeti and then Akpom, once of our academy, in stoppage time. We are into the fourth round, and Arteta now has a pleasant problem on his hands with that boy.
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Back in the cup we lost at Wembley
We left this cup at Wembley in March, beaten 2-0 by City, and we walk back into it on a Tuesday night at Portman Road under the lights, where Gary O'Neil knows exactly what his crowd can do with an evening like this. Ipswich came up this summer and won 3-2 at Selhurst Park on Saturday, Flemming settling it in the 90th minute. Arteta has Brighton on Saturday, so he will rotate, and Gyökeres is still waiting on his first goal of the season. Saliba has weeks left on the sidelines, Ben White came off at half-time against Sunderland holding his groin, and Timber should use the night to get his legs back.