The Irish Mail on Sunday

Young Gun Jordi hits the target

- By Stephen Davies

ARSENAL youngster Jordi Osei-Tutu enjoyed the limelight with a scoring return in Germany.

Jadon Sancho and Jonjoe Kenny may have been on the radar of English football supporters this weekend, yet it was Osei-Tutu who caught the eye first with a tasty goal in Bochum’s 3-0 win against Heidenheim in the German second tier.

It was the third goal of the season for the 21-year-old who is on loan at the German club.

From their official Twitter account the club posted: ‘GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL! JORDIIIIII­I Arsenal, you watching?’

Osei-Tutu has improved this season after a tricky start to his time at Bochum.

In his first match — a preseason friendly against Swiss side St Gallen — he left the pitch in tears after suffering racial abuse.

And then the former Reading youngster struggled to make much of an impact playing at right back, with boss Thomas

Reis saying he needed to improve defensivel­y.

Reis has shunted him upfield to right wing since the winter break and Osei-Tutu responded with two goals in three games.

Elsewhere, Sancho and Kenny were supposed to square off in the eagerly awaited DortmundSc­halke derby.

But while Schalke’s Kenny played 87 minutes, England star Sancho was a late substitute in Dortmund’s 4-0 win.

Ex-Manchester City youngster Rabbi Matondo was a secondhalf substitute for Schalke.

Everton loanee Kenny was the only Brit who started in the German top division yesterday.

Ademola Lookman, who joined Leipzig from Everton in summer, missed a couple of chances as a second-half sub in the 1-1 draw at home to Freiburg and Paderborn’s Antony Evans came off the bench late on in the 0-0 draw at Fortuna Dusseldorf.

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