Arsenal’s youngster Eddie Nketiah will almost certainly leave the club in June, as he already rejected the last contract offer from the Gunners and can sign a pre-contract with any club in 12 days. And it seems that England international of Ghanaian decent decided to leave Arsenal with a bang. Nketiah was easily the man of the match in a Carabao Cup quarter-final, where Arsenal defeated Sunderland 5-1 and young forward scored a hat-trick. It looks that Nketiah likes League Cup the most, since he so far scored 10 goals in 9 appearances in the League cup.And with each goal, no matter what the competition, he seems to get more clubs interested in signing him. A former Chelsea youth product was lured twice by the Ghanaian FA, but refused both times and went on to captain the England U-21 side. If he continues like that, a bright future lies ahead of him. He dominated in an easy match against third-league team, in which there were no worries for the home team, as they dominated from the first minute.Even thou this was a quarter-final of the Carabao Cup, Gunners boss Mikel Arteta decided to heavily rotate the squad. After all, Arsenal had the easiest schedule of all the other participants. Only Ben White and Martin Odegaard have kept their places from the win at Leeds in the Premier League on Saturday. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang remained punished and out of the squad.And it didn’t take long before the home team scored the opening goal. Nketiah was the scorer in the 17th minute, as the youngster was is in the right place at the right time to prod the ball across the line. Soon enough, the second goal came in via Nicolas Pepe. An expensive signing from Lille is now a reserve and this was one of his rare starts in the first 11, but he used his opportunity and scored, after the ball touched Doyle on it’s way to the visitors net.Just before everybody started thinking how badly will this end for Sunderland, The Black Cats reasoned quite good, as they scored from their first shot on goal. Pritchard allowed the ball to be released to Embleton. He then went forward and made a lovely pass through for Nathan Broadhead – who finished nicely near Leno. The visitors got the self confidence and two great chances soon followed, but one was stopped by Leno and the other was ruled offside.The second half began just like the first – with an Arsenal goal. Tavares passed Embleton down the left and whipped a cross into the near post, where Nketiah was waiting to divert the ball into the net. And soon enough, after a continuous pressure from the home team, the youngster stroke again for the his third goal of the match. And it was another future sensation, Charlie Patino, who finished the job with his goal, for the final score 5-1.Carabao Cup – Quarter FinalsTuesdayArsenal – Sunderland 5-1 (2-1)/Nketiah 17, 49, 58, Pepe 27, Patino 90+3 – Broadhead 31/Wednesday22:45 Brentford – Chelsea22:45 Liverpool – Leicester City22:45 Tottenham – West Ham United
