Balogun is a product of Arsenal’s academy and has spent the last year out on loan trying to garner some first-team experience.
Balogun spent the second half of 2021/22 on loan with Middlesbrough in the Championship. The striker showed clear signs of quality but was somewhat hampered by Chris Wilder’s constant chopping and changing of his two-man strike force.
For 2022/23, though, Balogun has been sent out on loan to Ligue 1 side Reims where he has become a regular feature almost instantly.
The 21-year-old came off the bench in gameweek 1 and scored as Reims fell to a 4-1 defeat at the hands of Marseille.
He then started last weekend in a 4-2 defeat vs Clermont Foot, scoring one and assisting one.
And now, on Sunday, Balogun was in from the off vs Strasbourg. Reims were forced to settle for a point but Balogun once again got himself on the scoresheet:
Absolute pandemonium for the equaliser! 🤯
A confusing few minutes and a VAR check later, Arsenal loanee Folarin Balogun is awarded the goal that brings Reims level ✅ pic.twitter.com/jCqSFeHfPA
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) August 21, 2022
Folarin Balogun (21) becomes the 1st Reims player to score in each of his 1st 3 appearances since Jacques Vergnes in August 1975.
— Get French Football News (@GFFN) August 21, 2022
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