Folarin Balogun

Folarin Balogun was forced off in the first half of England’s u21 match against Georgia on Tuesday, but his manager says it wasn’t an injury.

Arsenal and England u21 striker Folarin Balogun believes he’s ready for a new challenge, he just doesn’t know what that is just yet.

Folarin Balogun scored on his first start for the England u21s on Thursday night, in a comfortable yet vital win over the Czech Republic.

The Arsenal u23s pulled off a quite incredible comeback to draw with Leicester City and hold onto the Premier League 2 top spot on Saturday.

The Arsenal u23s went top of the PL2 table in front of a big Elland Road crowd after coming from behind twice to beat Leeds United.

Now that the England u21s to u18s have completed their international fixtures for the break, let’s look back at how the Arsenal players did.

Whilst the first team were dismantling Aston Villa on Friday night, Arsenal’s u23s thrashed the Everton u23s at Meadow Park.

Folarin Balogun has received an unsurprising nomination for Premier League 2 Player of the Month, after his strong form for the u23s.

Folarin Balogun scored another brace as the Arsenal u23s topped the Premier League 2 table with a win over Brighton on Friday night.

Arsenal have received seven call-ups for the England youth teams this October break, on top of their two for the senior side.

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Folarin Balogun underlined his first-team potential with a starring 38-minute appearance against Chelsea on Sunday, ahead of midweek’s League Cup clash.

Folarin Balogun hit a brace for the u23s as they swept past Manchester United 3-1 on Saturday with a side captained by Eddie Nketiah.

England’s u21 fixture against Romania was called off this week after two Covid-19 cases, with three Arsenal players in the squad.

Folarin Balogun, Tyreece John-Jules, and Emile Smith Rowe are all in the September England u21 squad, among other Arsenal youth England call-ups.

With pre-season underway, Arsenal have assigned new squad numbers to Arsenal’s u23 players ahead of the upcoming campaign.

Folarin Balogun has seemingly received his promotion to the first-team squad with Arsenal, wearing a new senior number in training.

Arsenal are travelling to Scotland today for their five-day pre-season training camp, and Nuno Tavares is among those making the trip.

The expectation is that Folarin Balogun will compete for a place in the Arsenal first-team next season after being assessed in pre-season.

10 of Arsenal’s academy setup trained with the club’s first team ahead of the final Premier League game of the season on Sunday.