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Manchester City youngster Micah Hamilton marked his senior debut with a dream goal as the holders finished the Champions League group stage with a 3-2 win at Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
With fellow 20-year-old Oscar Bobb also on the scoresheet, here the PA news agency looks at who these fresh faces are.<\/p>\n
The midfielder was born and brought up in Manchester and has been in the club\u2019s system since the age of nine.<\/p>\n
Also a City fan, he was a ballboy at the Etihad Stadium and pictures have emerged of him and manager Pep Guardiola on the touchline six years ago.<\/p>\n
He is a versatile player who can play centrally or wide and has represented England at various youth levels.<\/p>\n
Hamilton is highly rated and is currently the captain of City\u2019s elite development squad but his progress has been hampered in recent seasons by injuries.<\/p>\n
This is perhaps one reason why other recent City academy graduates such as Cole Palmer, Rico Lewis and James McAtee have had more attention.<\/p>\n
He has been on the fringes of the first-team squad this season and was an unused substitute at Newcastle in the Carabao Cup and against Young Boys in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
Bobb is another attacking player who is rated in his native Norway as one of his country\u2019s most promising prospects.He joined City from Valerenga in 2019.<\/p>\n
Having shone in the club\u2019s youth ranks, he is now with Guardiola\u2019s first-team squad full-time. He has made regular substitute appearances this season with the game at Red Star being his second start of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Brian Barry-Murphy, the former Rochdale manager who is now in charge of City\u2019s EDS, speaks highly of both players and gave Hamilton a label of \u201cstreet footballer\u201d that seems to have followed him a little.<\/p>\n
Barry-Murphy said: \u201cI say to him he\u2019s a street footballer. You see Oscar Bobb who\u2019s very exciting to watch. Micah is the same, someone who can eliminate players one by one, no matter how the game evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bobb\u2019s involvement this season clearly indicates that he is in Guardiola\u2019s thinking and further opportunities are likely to come his way. History suggests he will have to be patient, however.<\/p>\n
Phil Foden was only introduced to the first team gradually and still, at 23 and one of England\u2019s best midfielders, is not a regular starter. The process is still ongoing for Lewis.<\/p>\n
Cole Palmer recently decided to leave to seek more chances elsewhere, as did the likes of Jadon Sancho and Brahim Diaz in the past.<\/p>\n
Hamilton will have to work hard to even reach Bobb\u2019s level of involvement in what is a star-studded squad.<\/p>\n