Ethan Nwaneri He avoided a red card for Marseille on Tuesday night after a lunging attack on Arsenal’s academy graduate.

Nwaneri, 18, joined the French club on loan from Arsenal in the January transfer window and was playing in a cup game for his new team when he could have been sent off.

Marseille defeated Rennes 3-0 with a Rennes goal in the Cou de France quarter-finals. Amin Goiri, mason greenwood and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

However, after 22 minutes at 1-0, Nwaneri slipped in and found Rennes’ goal. Glen Kamara.

He was booked, frustrating the away team who had hoped for a harsher punishment for the teenager.

VAR will not be used at this stage of the French Cup competition.

Rennes manager Habib Bayet (former Newcastle United defender) and Marseille manager Robert de Zerbi exchanged words after the incident.

Kamara was injured and had to be substituted nine minutes later.

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Kamara came through Arsenal’s youth ranks 10 years before Nwaneri’s rise.

However, his only official appearance for Arsenal was in the fourth round of the League Cup in 2015.

After spells on loan at Southend and Colchester, he moved to Scottish club Dundee before making a name for himself with Rangers.

Kamara spent a season with Leeds United in the Championship before moving to Rennes in 2024, before returning to Rennes after a loan spell with Al-Shabaab in Saudi Arabia.