Manchester city football club of England have confirmed that 19 year old
striker Kelechi Iheanacho is their youngest player ever to score in the
Manchester derby.
Iheanacho scored Man City's second goal in the 2-1 win over Man U on Saturday at Old Trafford and City confirmed the Nigerian has broken the record aged 19 years and 243 days.
In
their review of the Premier League clash, City wrote on their official
webpage : “Kelechi admitted that he hadn’t expected De Bruyne’s shot to
fall to him but he showed none of this surprise when he instinctively
clipped the ball past David De Gea.
“In doing
so, Iheanacho became the youngest City player to score in a Premier
League derby and scored his ninth Premier League strike from his 13th
shot on target. ”
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