Opinion
Two Kids, Nine Changes, and a Reminder of What's Coming
Nine changes from the side that ground out victory at Sunderland, two teenagers making their first starts of the season, and a scoreline that still ended up looking comfortable: Ipswich 2, Arsenal 4. Arsenal are through to the Carabao Cup fourth round, and while the closing stages got needlessly untidy, the story of the night at Portman Road was set inside the opening quarter of an hour — by a 16-year-old who took the ball off his own centre-forward's toes in his head and went and won the game himself.
David Hole · 16 Sept 2026
