{"id":449693,"date":"2026-02-28T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449693\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:46:08","slug":"u21s-win-at-arsenal-ipswich-town-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449693\/","title":{"rendered":"U21s Win at Arsenal &#8211; Ipswich Town News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U21s Win at Arsenal<br \/>Friday, 27th Feb 2026  20:59<\/p>\n<p class=\"introtext\" style=\"font-size:1.1em\">Tudor Mendel scored the only goal as Town\u2019s U21s beat Arsenal 1-0 in Premier League 2 at Boreham Wood\u2019s Mangata Developments Stadium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">The Blues went in front in the 18th minute, Frankie Runham, who joined Town on loan from Chelsea in January with a view to a permanent switch in the summer, played a cross-field ball to winger Mendel, who cut in and smashed into the top corner, a goal which proved enough to take the points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">The home side were reduced to 10 men in the first minute of injury time when Marli Salmon was sent off for violent conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">Town included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twtd.co.uk\/ipswich-town-news\/51494\/non-league-youngster-on-trial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19-year-old trialist Vinnie Tume on the bench<\/a>, the Sholing FC striker coming on for the final 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">Arsenal\u2019s starting XI featured 16-year-old midfielder Max Dowman, who made first-team appearances for the Gunners earlier in the season, the England U19 international making way at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">The result moves the Blues back to the top of Premier League 2 but having played two games more than second-placed Manchester United and one more than Chelsea in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">Meanwhile, Town are reported to be among a number of clubs showing interest in Bangor FC central defender or right-back Harry Lynch, 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">The Blues, Norwich, Blackburn Rovers and Preston North End are all said to be keen on the Northern Ireland U19 international.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">U21s: Bilokapic, Elliott (c), Boniface, Mthunzi, Wilkinson, Turner, Mendel (Adebayo 87), Compton, L Fletcher (Tume 77), T Taylor, Runham (Pitts 70). Unused: Bentley, Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Matchday Images<\/p>\n<p>Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U21s Win at ArsenalFriday, 27th Feb 2026 20:59 Tudor Mendel scored the only goal as Town\u2019s U21s beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3626,3632,3625,3633,218,3627,3628,3629,59,3621,3622,3623,3624,3630,50,3631,3634,101,3636,3635,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-449693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alf-ramsey","tag-blogs","tag-bobby-robson","tag-chatroom","tag-football","tag-football-club","tag-football-news","tag-forum","tag-gb","tag-ipswich","tag-ipswich-town","tag-itfc","tag-kieran-mckenna","tag-message-board","tag-news","tag-polls","tag-portman-road","tag-sports","tag-tractor-boys","tag-tractorboys","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}