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| Full name | David Michael Bentley | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
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| Current team | Blackburn Rovers | ||
| ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 June2006 | |||
David Michael Bentley (born August 27 1984 in Peterborough) is an English football player. He currently plays for Blackburn Rovers.
Bentley started his career at Arsenal. He is a former captain of the England under-18 team, and is also a former England under-21 international, with four caps and three goals. A forward, he sometimes plays in 'the hole', and he was handed his senior debut for Arsenal in January 2003, coming on as a substitute for Kolo Touré in the 77th minute of a 2-0 FA Cup Third Round win over Oxford United.
He prefers to play deep and has been compared to Dennis Bergkamp, especially after having scored his first goal for Arsenal, an audacious lob in a 4-1 Carling Cup win over Middlesbrough in January 2004. Bentley spent the whole of the 2004-05 season on loan to Norwich City, playing 26 games and scoring 2 goals. His season at Carrow Road was interrupted by an injury sustained in January. He finally returned the side in April 2005, coming off the bench against Manchester United and playing a key role in Norwich's 2-0 win. Despite a late run of form, the Canaries were relegated from the Premiership on the last day of the season. He returned to Arsenal in the summer of 2005, but submitted a transfer request, citing his desire for first team football.
Desiring a permanent move, Bentley was linked with a number of clubs including Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being dispatched on a further season's loan to Blackburn Rovers, on summer transfer deadline day, August 31 2005. On the winter transfer deadline day, 31 January 2006, Blackburn announced they had signed Bentley on a permanent basis from Arsenal.
In Bentley's first match after permanently signing for Blackburn, against Manchester United, he scored his first senior hat trick in a 4-3 victory. This made him the first player in the history of the Premiership to score three goals in one game against United; the previous player to have scored a league hat-trick against United was Dennis Bailey of QPR, in an old First Division match in 1992.
Club Career
(Correct as of January 3, 2006)
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
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| Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Arsenal | 2002-03 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| 2003-04 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | 1 | ||||||||
| Norwich City (loan) | 2004-05 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 28 | 2 |
| Total | 28 | 2 | ||||||||
| Blackburn Rovers (loan) | 2005-06 | 14 | - | - | 6 | 2 | - | - | 20 | 2 |
| Blackburn Rovers | 2005-06 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 21 | 4 | ||||||||
| Career Total | 4 seasons | 43 | 2 | 4(+) | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 59 | 8 |
External links
- Statistics at ESPN.com
- Photos and stats at sporting-heroes.net
- Statistics at soccerbase.com
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