**FA Youth Cup third round**
**Mansfield Town 1 (Oldershaw 67) Arsenal 4 (Hamill 12, Hashi 16 (pen.)**, **Zecevic John 61, Bailey-Joseph 68)**
Callan Hamill, Maalik Hashi and Louis Zecevic John were all on the scoresheet as Arsenal U18s commenced their FA Youth Cup campaign with a 3-1 victory away to Mansfield Town tonight.
The victory means that Adam Birchall’s side will face Manchester City away in the fourth round.
Arsenal were without a host of key players, with Max Dowman and Andre Harriman-Annous absent due to injury, while Marli Salmon and Josiah King were suspended with Ife Ibrahim also missing.
Hamill, Sam Chapman and Maalik Hashi all started as they made their first appearances known this competition.
On the bench schoolboys Kyran Thompson and Angelinou Pedro received their first callups in this competition along with first year scholars Abraham Owusu-Gyasi, Patrick Stachow and Bowen Phillips.
**Porter**
**Hamill-Onyekachukwu-Chapman-Ogunnaike**
**Murisa**
**Julienne-Hashi**
**O’Neill-Zecevic John-Bailey Joseph**
**Subs: Thompson (for Zecevic John 65), Marciniak (for Hashi, 71), B. Phillips (for Bailey-Joseph, 90). Not used: Ranson, Pedro, Owusu-Gyasi, Stachow.**
Arsenal got off to a fast start, with captain Hamill opening the scoring in the 12th minute with a header from a corner.
Just four minutes later it was 2-0 as Hashi scored from the penalty spot after Louis Zecevic John was brought down.
Zecevic John found the net himself just after the hour mark to make it 3-0 before he was replaced by Thompson.
Mansfield managed to get a goal back through Mace Oldershaw but Brando Bailey-Joseph then netted his first goal in this competition to make it 4-1 to Arsenal.
Marciniak subsequently entered the fray in place of Hashi and Bowen Phillips replaced Bailey-Joseph in the closing stages as Arsenal saw out the game and returned to winning ways.
_Information via Arsenal_