Reims: A youth benchmark in Europe | OneFootball

Stade de Reims, who won 2-0 at Rennes on Sunday, are the Ligue 1 Uber Eats club where players born in the 21st century have scored the most goals since last season. They are also one of Europe's leading clubs in terms of youth integration.

Youth is in the spotlight at Stade de Reims. On Sunday afternoon, the Champagne club put an end to a winless run of 12 Ligue 1 Uber Eats matches (seven draws, five defeats since March 21) thanks to its young players. Oscar Garcia's Hugo Ekitike (19), who was played into the box by Ilan Kebbal (23), opened the scoring with a right-footed shot - his first goal in the top flight. A goal that made him one of only two players born in the 21st century to be involved in more than one league goal this season (one goal, one assist) - the other being OM's Konrad De la Fuente (two assists). Ekitike was later replaced by N'Dri Koffi (also 19) and his team-mate duly followed suit! Koffi elebrated his first professional game by scoring his side's second goal with a superb right-footed curler that ended up in the back of Romain Salin's net. The most prolific youngsters After these two goals from their young guns, Stade de Reims are the youth integration benchmark in Ligue 1 Uber Eats. Players born in the 21st century have scored ten Ligue 1 Uber Eats goals since last season - four for El Bilal Touré, four for Nathanaël Mbuku, one for Hugo Ekitike and one for N'Dri Koffi - more than any other club in the top flight. Better still, among Europe's top five leagues, only Borussia Dortmund (13) and Manchester United (11) have more over same the period. At Stade de Reims, age is clearly not an issue!

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