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Courtesy of:- Ray Lo, and the Spurs List.
Premier U-21 League 2015-16
Etihad Development Stadium
Friday 14th August 2015, 1pm.
MAN CITY v SPURS
(All Blue) (White/Blue)
4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1
3(1) 3(1)
Angus Gunn 1 Thomas Glover
Pablo Maffeo 2 Kyle Walker-Peters
Cameron Humphreys-Grant 3 Anton Walkes
George Evans 4 Milos Veljkovic
Ashley Smith-Brown 5 Cameron Carter-Vickers(C)
George Glendon(C) 6 Christian Maghoma
Aaron Nemane 7 Kenneth McEvoy
Manu Garcia 8 Filip Lesniak
Thierry Ambrose 9 Shayon Harrison
Bersant Celina 10 Cy Goddard
Brandon Barker 11 Ismail Azzaoui
Kean Bryan 12 Emmanuel Sonupe
(3)31Mins (7)42Mins
Kjetil Haug 13 Harry Voss
James Horsfield 14 Luke Amos
(10)66Mins
Jorge Intima 15 Anthony Georgiou
(5)90+2Mins (11)78Mins
David Faupala 16
(7)71Mins
Scorers:-
Ambrose 26 McEvoy 6
Garcia 47 Azzaoui 52
Celina 90+2 Maghoma 90
Booked:-
Evans 2(Holding)
Maffeo 87(Holding)
Coaches:-
P. Vieira U. Ehiogo
Ref:– P. Marsden
Assistants:- D. Mason & S. Barrott
Fourth Official:– J. Bebbington
Spurs travelled to the City Academy to play their second game in a week. City had drawn their opening game at Southampton on Monday 2-2 thanks to a last minute goal from Ambrose while Spurs had beaten Everton 4-1 at Hotspur Way. Last season Spurs drew 3-3 at the same venue having taken a 2-0 lead at half time.
With Coulthirst, Oduwa, Ogilvie and Ball going out on loan, Spurs had to make changes to their line up. Glover was in goal behind Carter-Vickers and Maghoma with Walker-Peters at right back and Walkes on the left. Veljkovic and Lesniak protected them with Goddard flanked by McEvoy on the right and Azzaoui on the left behind Harrison up front.
Due to traffic problems on the way to the match I missed most of the first half and so I am indebted to Paul Smith for what I missed. Spurs attacked the North end and had an early chance when Harrison robbed Evans and set off for goal only for the defender to recover and pull him back. The referee ruled that he was not the last man so only booked him. Azzaoui took the free kick which was headed acoss goal and out for a throw-in.
Spurs did score when Azzaoui won the ball in the middle and passed it to Goddard who played a neat through ball for McEvoy to score in the far corner. McEvoy had another chance that hit the bar and away to safety.
Barker was causing problems fro Walker-Peters and had a shot blocked from a pass by Nemane. Barker cut inside Walker-Peters and laid the ball off to Ambrose who played in Celina for a shot saved by Glover at his left post. Glover also saved a free kick by Celina diving to his left. The Spurs keeper was out quickly to foil a break by Glendon.
Gunn saved from Harrison, who was through one-on-one after picking up a loose ball, and again when the striker fired in a free kick. City equalised when Celina robbed Maghoma as he was trying to shepherd the ball out, crossing for Ambrose to slide home.
On the half hour Harrison was played in on the left but was clattered by Gunn coming off his line and both players had to have treatment before continuing while Humphreys-Grant had to go off. McEvoy was not so luckly as he cut in from the right and fired in a shot which was saved by Gunn. However McEvoy had been caught late. He could not run it off and had to be replaced by Sonupe after Barker had got down the left and drawn a save from Glover. In added time at the end of the half Walkes got down the left and pulled the ball back for Harrison to lay off into the path of Sonupe who fired over.
There were no changes for the start of the second half which saw Ambrose attack through the right channel, firing into the side netting inside a minute. City went ahead when Garcia got the luck of the bounce as the ball rebounded off him into space in the area and he was able to fire past Glover.
The lead did not last long as when City failed to clear a cross from the right by Sonupe, the winger had a second go and this time found Azzaoui at the far post. His first effort was blocked by Maffeo. With the ball looping up towards the near post, the winger was quickest to the ball to head in under pressure from the keeper and full back.
The game opened up as both sides went looking for a winner. Ambrose fired wide while Gunn saved from Azzaoui having been played in by Harrison. Glover then saved from Celina while Evans fired very wide.
Spurs made their second change replacing Goddard with Amos in that attacking midfield position. A City corner was played to Evans to cross for Bryan to head at the far post but Glover saved. A Spurs corner was headed wide by Carter-Vickers before Spurs replaced Azzaoui with Georgiou on the left.
After Celina had fired wide, Veljkovic picked out Georgiou with a great diagonal pass but the winger fired wide. Maffeo tangled with Georgiou pulling the winger off his feet as he was getting away from him and was the second player to go into the ref's book. Sonupe passed to Lesniak on the edge of the area but his effort was blocked for a corner. From the corner Maghoma rose highest to head home to put Spurs back in front in the last minute. This was a sweet goal for Maghoma, following his unfortunate involvement in City's first.
Unfortunately for Spurs in the second minute of added time Barker got down the left and pulled the ball back for Celina to score a last gasp equaliser.
It was a fairly even contest between two attacking sides and for the second time in three months it ended honours even at 3-3. That point puts Spurs on top of the table with Southampton who beat Chelsea 3-1 tonight. Spurs next game is away to Sunderland on the 23rd and will be played at the Hetton centre in Hetton-le-hole. (Ed:- Ray intends to be there too!)
Ray
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