MUNICH (Interstat) — Emerson Nwaneri scored in the first minute of stoppage time as Arsenal U19 erased a two-goal deficit and drew Bayern U19 3-3 on Wednesday at FC Bayern Campus Platz 1 in München. Arsenal U19 scored three goals total, and Bayern U19 scored three goals total in a match that changed direction after Bayern U19 took control late in the first half. Arsenal U19’s comeback denied the home side a victory after it had built a 3-1 lead by the 43rd minute.

Hakeem Abubakar gave Arsenal U19 the lead in the 11th minute. Bayern U19 answered four minutes later through Allen Lambe, then moved ahead in the 30th minute when Erblin Osmani scored. Guido Della Rovere made it 3-1 in the 43rd minute, finishing a first half in which Bayern U19 scored three times in a 28-minute span after conceding early. Lambe’s equalizer was followed by Osmani’s go-ahead strike and Della Rovere’s goal that gave Bayern U19 a two-goal advantage at the break. Bayern U19 carried that lead into halftime.

Arsenal U19 began its comeback in the 68th minute when Marli Salmon scored. The visitors pressed for another goal and found it in stoppage time when substitute Nwaneri beat the Bayern U19 defense to level the score. Arsenal U19 made a triple change in the 59th minute when Owusu-Gyasi, Julienne and Harriman-Annous came on. Arsenal U19 also brought on Upson in the 65th minute and Bernard in the 82nd minute as it pushed for the equalizer. The changes were made after Bayern U19 had taken its 3-1 lead into halftime.

Della Rovere finished with one goal and one assist in 76 minutes for Bayern U19 before being replaced by Codjo-Evora in the 76th minute. Osmani and Lambe each scored for Bayern U19. Abubakar scored for Arsenal U19. Nwaneri scored after coming off the bench. Salmon scored and was booked. Ceadach O Neill and Maalik Hashi each provided an assist for Arsenal U19, with Hashi also receiving a yellow card. Bastian Assomo had an assist and a yellow card in 87 minutes for Bayern U19 before being substituted.

Salmon was booked in the 24th minute, Assomo in the 45th minute plus three, and Hashi in the 90th minute plus four. No other yellow cards were issued. Bayern U19 also made substitutions in the 60th minute for Olychenko, in the 76th minute for Codjo-Evora and Della Rovere, and in the 87th minute for Assomo. Arsenal U19 used substitutions in the 59th, 65th and 82nd minutes as it sought to recover from the halftime deficit. The late goals capped a second half in which Arsenal U19 reduced the deficit and then leveled in the closing moments.

The draw left Arsenal U19 at 0-1-1 in the competition and 0-1-1 across all competitions. Bayern U19 is 0-1-1 in the competition and 1-2-1 across all competitions. The draw was the second competition match of the season for both teams. Arsenal U19 had lost 3-2 to Lille U19 in its previous competition match. Bayern U19 had lost 3-2 at Unterhaching U19, lost 2-0 at Viking U19 and beaten Jahn Regensburg Under 19 6-1 in its previous matches this season. Bayern U19 had won 6-1 against Jahn Regensburg Under 19 in its previous home match.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Bayern U19 4, Arsenal U19 2. Its ELO system had projected Bayern U19 with a 93.5 percent probability to win, and Bayern U19 had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -1. The total score of 6 went under the over/under line of 3.5. Those projections were made before kickoff.