{"id":62370,"date":"2025-08-12T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62370\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:03:11","slug":"plymouth-v-qpr-four-youngsters-make-debuts-in-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62370\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth v QPR: Four youngsters make debuts in cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer signings Jaylen Pearman and Tylon Smith have been handed debuts for QPR in tonight\u2019s Carabao Cup first-round tie and there are also senior debuts for youngsters Jaiden Putman and Alex Wilkie.<\/p>\n

Australian midfielder Pearman and South African centre-back Smith are part of an extremely young Rangers line-up at Home Park.<\/p>\n

Another summer signing, Rumarn Burrell, makes his full debut, as does Harvey Vale.<\/p>\n

There are also starting places for Rayan Kolli, Emmerson Sutton and Daniel Bennie.<\/p>\n

West London Sport\u00a0revealed ahead of the game<\/a> that the Rangers line-up would be dominated by youngsters \u2013 and that the club could field its second-youngest player.<\/p>\n

Winger Kalen Brunson and forward Ashley Trujillo, both 16, are on the bench.<\/p>\n

Both are younger than Scott Donnelly was in October 2004, when became the second-youngest player to appear in a first-team match for Rangers, aged 16 years and 298 days.<\/p>\n

Brunson is 16 years and 121 days old, and Trujillo 16 years and 249 days.<\/p>\n

Former QPR player, coach and manager Frank Sibley was 15 when he made his first-team debut in 1963, which remains the club record.<\/p>\n

Brunson is Bermudian and arrived at QPR in December via a football-schools programme run by a company owned by former R\u2019s defender Matthew Rose.<\/p>\n

The London-born Trujillo has played for Colombia \u2013 where both his parents are from \u2013 at youth level.<\/p>\n

QPR: Nardi, Putman, Wilkie, Smith, Vale, Dixon-Bonner, Pearman, Sutton, Bennie, Kolli, Burrell.
Subs: Salamon, Leahy, McCann, Tuck, Tarbotton, Brunson, Trujillo, Talla, Dillon.<\/p>\n

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