From what ive heard the football arsenal u18s are playing is a bit of a mess. Now that if you blink you'll miss the highlights, its difficult to analyse, but the results suggest there is something wrong as well. Far cry from the stereotype that the arsenal kids are taught to play fast clever passing football
THE U18 PL & PDL2 RESULTS Saturday 19 October 2013 U18 PL Arsenal 1 – 2 Reading Everton 2 – 1 Bolton Wanderers Liverpool 4 – 2 Blackburn Rovers Newcastle United 0 – 6 Manchester City Southampton 4 – 2 West Bromwich Albion Tottenham Hotspur 3 – 2 Chelsea West Ham United 2 – 0 Norwich City Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 – 1 Stoke City Fulham 0 – 3 Aston Villa Manchester United 3 – 2 Sunderland U18 PDL2 Barnsley 5 – 3 Birmingham City Coventry City 2 – 2 Nottingham Forest Derby County 1- 5 Sheffield United Huddersfield Town 4 – 1 Leeds United Sheffield Wednesday 5 – 0 Crewe Alexandra Brentford 2 – 3 Cardiff City Crystal Palace 0 – 1 Bristol City Ipswich Town 1 – 0 Queens Park Rangers Millwall 0 – 2 Brighton & Hove Albion Swansea City 1 – 3 Charlton Athletic
Liverpool and Arsenal should be among the most fancied sides for this years Youth Cup. Draw First Round Proper - Can't spot any particularly interesting clashes here: Southampton v Portsmouth or Barton Rovers or Stevenage AFC Bournemouth v Chesterfield or Hereford United Preston North End or York City v Norwich City Bolton Wanderers v Sheffield United or Worcester City Shrewsbury Town or Bristol Rovers v Rochdale or Crewe Alexandra or Coventry City Ilkeston or Accrington Stanley v West Ham United Leeds United v Reading Blackpool v Liverpool Burnley v Manchester United Hull City v Wolverhampton Wanderers or Peterborough United Sheffield Wednesday v Crystal Palace Nottingham Forest v Charlton Athletic Queens Park Rangers v Fulham Woking or Crawley Town v Watford Derby County v Wigan Athletic Leicester City v Rotherham United or Bury Ipswich Town v Sunderland Arsenal v Torquay United or Chipstead Burgess Hill Town or Bristol City v Brentford or Dulwich Hamlet or Brentwood Town or Newport County Chelsea v Grays Athletic or Uxbridge or Dartford or Christchurch Cardiff City v Blackburn Rovers Everton v Brighton & Hove Albion Tottenham Hotspur v Middlesbrough Huddersfield Town v Gateshead or Luton Town Swansea City v Southend United or Oxford United Stoke City v Swindon Town or Leyton Orient West Bromwich Albion v Walsall or Altrincham Morecambe or Bradford City v Millwall Cheltenham Town or VCD Athletic v Birmingham City or Bury Town Aston Villa v AFC Wimbledon or Colchester United or Plymouth Argyle Manchester City v Doncaster Rovers Barnsley v Newcastle United Read more at http://www.thefa.com/News/competiti...nov/third-round-draw.aspx#zcvb5dDFHDt9Z4xM.99
United drawing Burnley 2 years in a row. Chance for revenge. If Wilson, Janko, Pereira all drop down to play in this United should have a good team too. Better balanced in defence than last year's crop who had better attacking talents. It's interesting btw, it's not even been 1 year from that Burnley game last season at Old Trafford after which apparently Sir Alex gave Januzaj a personal dressing down for being too soft and floating around the game.
Yeah, I was going to give them a mention, particularly with the big French lad up front (and our boy Roberts). But kept it down to two.
Chelsea have already said they're gonna play younger guys this year and ignore some of the eligible guys who're already U21 regulars, so I take that to mean your Christensens, Browns and Ssewankambos. A non-league draw is a good start to that but even then we can field a fairly formidable team with Boga, Colkett, Solanke, Palmer, Aina, Musonda et al.
Given twitter a look, both crowley and roberts have been lavished with praise for their respective performances in the youth cup by those that attended. Definitely ones to watch in this seasons cup
Youth Cup draw - All 16 Fourth Round ties will take place by Saturday 25 January 2014. Draw in full 1 Tottenham Hotspur v Fulham 2 Barnsley or Newcastle United v Sunderland 3 Leeds United or Reading v Bristol Rovers or Crewe Alexandra 4 Leicester City or Rotherham United v Burnley or Manchester United 5 Swansea City or Oxford United v Cardiff City 6 Bradford City or Millwall v Bolton Wanderers or Sheffield United 7 Southampton v Nottingham Forest or Charlton Athletic 8 Accrington Stanley v Bristol City or Brentford 9 Everton v Cheltenham Town or Birmingham City 10 West Bromwich Albion v Huddersfield Town 11 Chelsea v Sheffield Wednesday 12 Blackpool or Liverpool v Aston Villa 13 Derby County v Stoke City 14 Manchester City or Doncaster Rovers v AFC Bournemouth or Hereford United 15 Crawley Town or Watford v Norwich City 16 Hull City or Peterborough United v Arsenal
Since I'm keeping track, U18 and U21 (Cat 1) leading scorers as of the turn of the year: Under-18s (league only, FA Youth Cup NOT included) Jordan Preston, Blackburn Rovers - 19 Kieran Bywater, West Ham United - 14 Moussa Dembele, Fulham - 14 Dean Rittenberg, Blackburn Rovers - 11 George Williams, Fulham - 11 Ashley Fletcher, Manchester United - 10 George Green, Everton - 10 Dominic Solanke, Chelsea - 10 Under-21s (including U21 Premier League Cup) Adam Armstrong, Newcastle United - 8 Muamer Tankovic, Fulham - 8 Isaiah Brown, Chelsea - 7 Moussa Dembele, Fulham - 7 Elliot Lee, West Ham United - 7 Chris Long, Everton - 7 Mickael Mandron, Sunderland - 7 Eusebio Bancessi, Wolves - 6
Not many big clashes in the youth cup - but there certainly will be at the last eight stage. Mind you Fulham play Spurs on the 30 Jan with the winners facing a seemingly strong Man City.
Chelsea beat Newcastle 3-2 in youth cup. Very good opening goal set up by Brown and finished good style by Solanke. ! Who set Kiwomya up for the second. They play Arsenal in the two legged semi final.
ITV have the FAYC rights; the BU21PL might be televised, it was hinted at on the Footballers' Football Show yesterday.
What an amazing see-saw game. Liverpool looked out of it at 2-0 down but clawed back to 2-2 right at the end of 90 minutes. It seemed Reading were shot at that point and Liverpool would ease their way through. They soon went to 4-2 and people thought it was all over. But it wasn't. The Reading pens were really good. It was as if they'd been practising. For years. 5-4 on pens. Fulham next in the semis.
Fulham won 2-1 in youth cup and now face Reading in semi. Arsenal dopey at the back and lacking quality in attack in going out of CL u19 comp.
Too bad for Arsenal , they took two goals in the last 5 minutes . The gunners dominated the first 20 minutes , Barca the rest , really good Akpom , Ormonde-Ottewill suffered a lot in defense but was very good at attacking , Maitland-Niles and O'Connor not ready yet for this level .
10 man Fulham drew 2-2 in first leg youth cup semi with Reading. Roberts scored one and got a pen. Second leg next Monday ITV 4.