With the Hatters in the midst of a quite horrendous injury crisis that has robbed them of 11 first team players, it saw the Chiltern Academy Year 11 pupil, who is taking his GCSEs this summer, named as a substitute for the 2-0 defeat to title-chasing Arsenal at the Emirates on Wednesday evening. Although he didn’t make it on to the pitch, with Reece Burke the only player that has a chance of returning to face the Cherries, if the ex-West Ham centre half doesn’t make it, Chigozie should find himself called on once more.
Due to his limited options, rather than leave empty spaces on the bench, Edwards has opted to go with a number of youngster in recent weeks, Joe Johnson, Zack Nelson, Axel Piesold and Dominic Dos Santos Martins all involved, and why Chidozie was the latest academy graduate to get the nod, the manager said: “We’ve picked him out in a few games.
“We’ve gone to watch the U18s, or the youth team or a reserve game, whatever you want to call it these days and I’ve had really good feedback on him from the staff. We like him as a person, he’s a great young kid, a real role model I think in the academy and they’ve got high hopes for him, so it was great to be able to give him that experience. He’ll be in the squad again tomorrow and we’ll see if he’s needed to be on the bench or not depending on Burkey’s fitness.”
