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5 youngest Arsenal players to score 50 Premier League goals
- 40 players have scored 50 league goals for Arsenal
- Bukayo Saka recently became the youngest
- Some modern legends make up to the top 5
40 players have netted 50 or more league goals for Arsenal, with plenty of those coming in the Premier League. Another Gunners star hit that half-century landmark recently.
Bukayo Saka has become the latest player to reach that milestone for the Gunners, having scored last weekend against title rivals Liverpool. The winger's goal against the Reds saw him become the youngest player to score 50 Premier League goals for Arsenal.
The Hale End graduate finds himself in good company, sitting among some modern legends. Here are the five youngest Arsenal players to score 50 Premier League goals.
5 youngest Arsenal players to score 50 Premier League goals
5. Alexis Sanchez - 28 years and 145 days
Alexis Sanchez netted his 50th goal aged 28 years and 145 days old. Hitting the milestone came as part of a 4-1 win away to Stoke City in May 2017.
The goal was one of the final few the Chilean scored in the Premier League for Arsenal before his controversial transfer to Manchester United less than a year later.
4. Robin van Persie - 27 years and 162 days
Robin van Persie came to Arsenal from Feyenoord as a young winger and developed himself into a deadly goalscorer, one of the greatest in the club's history.
The ex-Netherlands international netted his 50th Premier League strike in a 3-0 win at West Ham in his penultimate season in North London.
3. Theo Walcott - 26 years and 69 days
Theo Walcott broke into the Gunners first team after joining the club as a youngster from Southampton.
Despite struggling with injury, the now retired forward was a reliable goalscorer and netted 65 Premier League goals for the Gunners. Aged 26 years and 69 days old, Walcott scored his 50th Premier League goal for the club in a 2-0 home win over Stoke City.
2. Thierry Henry - 24 years and 128 days
This is an Arsenal goalscorers record list so it comes as no surprise that Thierry Henry is involved. The Frenchman was previously the youngest player to reach 50 Premier League goals for the Gunners, achieving the feat in December 2001.
The former France forward went on to score another 125 goals in the league for Arsenal, remaining the club's record goalscorer to this day.
1. Bukayo Saka - 23 years and 52 days
Bukayo Saka reached the milestone last week against Liverpool, when he netted the opener aged 23 years and 52 days old. The academy graduate broke Henry's record by over a year and will no doubt be proud of the achievement.
The winger's goal against the Reds means he is now the seventh youngest player to achieve the feat. It certainly won't be Saka's last goal in the league for Arsenal as he will look to go on and break even more records.
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