After scoring seven goals against Norwich U18s, Obi-Martin breaks Arsenal record held by USMNT striker

Danish-born Nigerian striker Chido Obi-Martin put up a remarkable performance as Arsenal beat Norwich City 9-0 in an U18 Premier League fixture held at Lotus Training Center in Norfolk on Saturday afternoon, allnigeriasoccer.com reports. 

The Denmark U17 international went viral last November after scoring ten goals in a friendly against Liverpool U16s and he was three goals shy of replicating the feat against the Canaries after accounting for seven of the goals scored by the young Gunners. 

Obi-Martin opened the scoring inside the opening sixty seconds of the game and showed great composure to double the advantage in the fifteenth minute. 

The 16-year-old found the bottom corner to get his hat-trick after seventeen minutes played and finished from a tight angle to make it 4-0 in the 28th minute. 

Obi-Martin scored his fifth goal of the game after connecting with Harrisson Dudziak's pass, taking his tally for the season to 26 goals in the U18 Premier League. 

His 44th minute strike saw him break the Arsenal record for the most goals scored by an U18 player in a single season, surpassing cap-tied United States international of Nigerian descent Folarin Balogun who tallied 25 over the course of the 2018-2019 season. 

The precocious talent grabbed his sixth goal of the game in the 54th minute and bagged his seventh in the 64th minute. 

Another teenager of Nigerian descent Andre Annous, who provided the assists for two of the seven goals netted by Obi-Martin, joined in on the act by scoring Arsenal's eighth goal, before Casey got himself on the scoresheet in the 89th minute. 

Other players of Nigerian descent in action for Arsenal were Cam'ron Ismail, Ifeoluwa Ibrahim and Zac Shuaib, while goalkeeper Owen Asemota was a non-playing substitute.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

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