Arsenal academy midfielder Harrison Dudziak don receive im first callup to di first-team squad as dem name am for bench for tonight Champions League quarter-final second leg match against Sporting at home.
Di 20-year-old, wey fit play as deep-lying midfielder or slightly further forward, just return from several months wey injury hold am as e feature as substitute for Arsenal U21s against Crystal Palace on Monday.
Earlier for dis season, Dudziak gain im first experience of senior football during loan spell at Braintree Town, where e make five appearances for National League.
Dudziak sign scholarship terms with Arsenal for 2022 before e progress to professional contract two years later.
During im time with academy, e don play over 30 games each for Arsenal at both U21 and U18 levels and e don feature prominently for U19s too.
Defender Marli Salmon, wey dem withdraw at half time for U21s against Palace, don dey named on bench for di fourth first-team game straight.
Max Dowman sef don dey named among substitutes again.
Amid news of six first-team absentees from training on Tuesday, at least six Arsenal youth players dem call up for di session.
Goalkeeper Remy Mitchell, defenders Marli Salmon, Patrick Stachow, and Joshua Ogunnaike, defensive midfielder Teshaun Murisa, and winger Kyran Thompson all dey involved alongside available senior players.
Salmon na obviously di player with best shot at making first-team squad, as e don already make im debut for Champions League and feature for three of last four squads for di competition.
Di centre-back dey on bench last week away for Lisbon, and dem withdraw am early during Monday U21 match against Crystal Palace, as e come off at half-time seemingly so e fit dey available for first-team.
That U21 match perhaps take away opportunities for likes of Andre Harriman-Annous and Ife Ibrahim to feature for senior training for dis occasion, despite both regularly dey involved for recent months and make their senior debuts dis season.
Instead, U18 players like Thompson and Murisa dem give chance on Tuesday.
Di fact say most of di players wey dey involved for training on Tuesday na either U18s or U21 fringe players suggest dem no likely play any role with senior team on Wednesday, so Salmon might be di only one wey go dey involved against Sporting.
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