Arsenal Youth 3-1 Wolves Youth, Tuesday 13 January 2009

Gilles Sunu continued his good form with a neatly-taken hat-trick at Underhill on Tuesday night to put the young gunners into the next round of the FA Youth Cup.

With the youth team on top of the league, there was much optimism surrounding the fourth round tie.

Arsenal started brightly and could have gone into the lead on a number of occasions, Henri Lansbury, Emmanuel Frimpong and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas all could have put Arsenal infont in the first half.

Wolves were being over-run in midfield, presumably as they often had two markers on Jack Wilshere. Frimpong and Coquelin provided the cover for Wilshere, Lansbury and Emmanuel-Thomas to attack.

Rhys Murphy had been in top form coming into the game and could have scored early on, but then disaster struck; a committed challenge on Murphy left the England youth international in agony. It took almost 10 minutes before he was stretchered off the field of play.

Soon after his introduction, Sunu reminded us of his instinctive finishing. Lansbury floated in a corner and Sunu applied the finish to make it one nil.

Wolves' front-two looked dangerous but they were being looked after well by Luke Ayling and Kyle Bartley in the heart of the defence. Thomas Cruise and Craig Eastmond also looked comfortable in the full-back positions surgung forward in support of the midfield when needed.

Lansbury then supplied Sunu for his second, Jack Wilshere relaeased Lansbury and crossed to Sunu who controlled the ball with his right-foot, and turned onto his left, to dispatch a neat finish in the bottom-left corner.

Sunu really should have had a hat-trik soon afterwards but the goalkeeper denied him in a one-on-one position, but the Frenchamn soon made up for it, he latched onto a through ball and put the ball past the Wolves 'keeper.

Wolves pulled back a consolation near the end, but the young Gunners are through to the next round where they will face Sunderland.