Youth academy

THE ACADEMY

CENTRAL LEAGUE DEVELOPMENT SQUAD FIXTURES 2019/20

DATE OPPOSITION COMP SCORE GOALSCORERS SEPTEMBER Tue 24 Portsmouth H PLC W 1-0 Wright OCTOBER Tue 1 Rotherham United H CLC W 4-2 Trialist, Gomes, Kiwomya, Gibbons Tue 15 Rotherham United A CL W 2-3 Watters, Myring NOVEMBER Tue 5 Huddersfield Town H CLC W 6-2 Bingham, Watters, Blaney, Longbottom, OG, Boocock Mon 11 Aston Villa A PLC W 1-0 Watters Tue 19 Scunthorpe United H CL D 1-1 Boocock Tue 26 Exeter City A PLC L 0-1 - DECEMBER Tue 3 Grimsby Town H CL L 2-3 Gibbons (2) Tue 10 Walsall H CL W 3-2 Wright, Horton, Trialist JANUARY Tue 7 Rochdale A CLC L 0-3 - Tue 14 Shrewsbury Town A CLC W 1-0 Watters Tue 21 Portsmouth A PLC W 4-2 Amos, McLean, Gibbons, Trialist Wed 29 Aston Villa H PLC W 4-0 Watters (2), Trialist B, Trialist C FEBRUARY Tue 4 Rotherham United H CL L 1-5 Watson Tue 11 Mansfield Town H CL L 1-2 OG Tue 18 Grimsby Town A CL D 1-1 Lokilo Mon 24 Exeter City H PLC D 2-2 Gibbons, Watson MARCH Mon 2 Scunthorpe United A CL Tue 24 Mansfield Town A CL Tue 31 Walsall A CL

P GD PTS 1 MANSFIELD 4 5 10 2 ROTHERHAM 6 1 9 3 GRIMSBY 5 1 8 4 WALSALL 6 -4 5 5 DONCASTER 7 -6 5 6 SCUNTHORPE 2 3 4

All home fixtures will be played at Cantley Park Training Ground

EFL YOUTH ALLIANCE UNDER 18 NORTH EAST FIXTURES 2019/20

DATE OPPOSITION COMP SCORE GOALSCORERS AUGUST Sat 3 Grimsby Town H YA W 4-1 Smith (2), Bojang, Dimou Sat 10 Notts County A YA W 1-0 Watson Sat 17 Rotherham United H YA D 2-2 McGowan, Watson Sat 31 Burton Albion H YA W 4-1 Watson (4) SEPTEMBER Sat 7 Bradford City A YA L 0-2 - Sat 14 Mansfield Town H YAC L 3-6 Bell, Hasani, McGowan Sat 21 Mansfield Town H YA L 0-1 - Sat 28 Scunthorpe United A YA W 2-1 Smith, Watson OCTOBER Sat 12 Huddersfield Town H YA W 4-0 Smith (3), McGowan Tue 29 Mansfield Town A FAYC L 3-4 Smith (2), McGowan NOVEMBER Sat 2 Lincoln City H YA W 2-0 Smith, Dimou Sat 9 Fleetwood Town A YAC L 0-1 - Sat 16 Chesterfield A YA D 2-2 Smith, McGowan Sat 23 Bradford City H YA W 3-0 Watson, Smith, Conradi Fri 29 Burton Albion A YA L 0-2 - DECEMBER Sat 14 Scunthorpe United H YA L 2-3 Dimou, Smith JANUARY Sat 25 Huddersfield Town A YA W 6-2 Smith (3), McGowan, Watson (2) FEBRUARY Sat 1 Mansfield Town A YA W 2-1 Watson, Smith Sat 8 Chesterfield H YA W 3-0 Hasani, Dimou, Watson Sat 22 Lincoln City A YA W 2-1 Watson, Hasani Sat 29 Grimsby Town A YA MARCH Sat 7 Notts County H YA Sat 14 Rotherham United A YA

P GD PTS 1 DONCASTER 17 20 35 2 SCUNTHORPE 14 2 25 3 ROTHERHAM 15 7 24 4 MANSFIELD 14 3 23 5 BRADFORD 14 6 22 6 NOTTS COUNTY 15 2 19 7 HUDDERSFIELD 16 -15 19 8 LINCOLN 18 0 18 9 GRIMSBY 15 -6 18 10 CHESTERFIELD 16 -17 18 11 BURTON 12 -2 16

Paul Stancliffe felt his U18 side blew Lincoln City away in the opening half of last Saturday’s league game.

Gary McSheffrey felt his U23 side saw exactly what standard they must step up to after holding an impressive Exeter City side to a draw on their way to the knockout stages of the Premier League Cup on Monday night.

The visitors were slick throughout and fought back from two goals down to earn the point which kept them ahead of Rovers at the top of Group D, ensuring they enter the last 16 as a top seed while McSheffrey’s side finish second and must take on a group winner in the next stage

He said: “Their principles of play mirror everything they do at firstteam level, they are a really good organised team and I’m happy with a draw,. That’s the type of level that this group needs to get to, and I’m confident we will get there over the next couple of years.

“It was a real test for us, they are the best team we have faced this season without a shadow of a doubt but it’s a great learning curve for the young players.”

Myron Gibbons and Jack Watson struck either side of the break, with quickfire efforts from Alex Hartridge and Harry Kite getting the Grecians back into the game.

McSheffrey added: “I was quite pleased after that with the resilience Lirak Hasani and Jack Watson were both on target in the first-half, and they dug in to see out the victory although the young Imps did pull one back.

Stancliffe said: “It was a game of two halves. In the first we were really good and I was really pleased with them. In the second they just stopped doing all the right things and made hard work of it.

“We’ve proved so many times this season how well we can play. One or two little things did go wrong, but you’re never going to be 100%.

“Everything in the first-half was great, we pressed at the right time and broke on the counter when we got the ball back. The only area we probably lacked is that we should have been more than 2-0 up at the break.”

the lads showed, we didn’t crumble under the pressure. Louis Jones made some great saves to keep us in it, he was top drawer.

“We played on the counter well with Myron’s pace up top, we can play that game and he finished his chance well when one on one, and it was a good second goal with great improvisation from the freekick and a nice finish by Jack.”

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