pound for pound, at £4 one of the best value games i ve seen city involved in for some time. end-to-end throughout. leicester good going forward and more flamboyant than city, playing with two wide men all the game. a ringer for neil danns up front looked sharp and the number 10 was always a thorn. dont know his name but look out for him. however city repelled most of what was thrown at them, and where they didnt, cracknell swept up well behind. city defense dogged and brilliantly marshalled by max clark in the centre. i was amazed to see him there as i ve always seen him at left back. midfield were always up against it but did very well supporting our rear guard. before anyone calls for harry cardwell to be given a chance in first team, his two goals were excellent finishes but he is a kid and probably one for the future! 1) Joe Cracknell - solid game apart from a massive rick for their goal 2) Sam Topliss - part of a 4 man defense that repelled all leicester had to throw at them. could have scored when he controlled a brilliant 60 yard cross field ball from clark to put him one-on-one with the keeper. 3) Tom Davie - strong full back who missed nothing in the air and supported well going forward on occasions. 4) Brad Ricketts - worked hard throughout up against a more physical leicester midfield. city's tactics by-passed midfield going forward for most of the game on a difficult pitch 5) Ben Clappison - awesome alongside clark and missed nothing till injured/ran out of steam in extra time 6) Max Clark - i ve said it all. my MoM 7) Ryan Fallowfield -worked hard to contain the stronger opposition midfield (see Brad Ricketts). 8) Eoghan McCawl - once again, part of our hard working midfield unit 9) Danny Chambers -always a problem for the leicester defense till he twisted an ankle just before half time. you could see he had been patched at the interval and did well to continue for the whole game at less than 100%, slight deflection for his goal (i think), but a great strike all the same 10) Joel Sutton - supported Chambers well and could well have scored on more than one occasion. 11) Matty Dixon - a great skipper and never shirks a tackle. great all round performance organising the midfield unit. 17) or 15) Sam O'Connor - a big strong unit who added a lot of strength to our forward line when legs started to go around the pitch. great ball through for Cardwell's first (i think) 15) or 17) Jack Barlow - some nice touches in his cameo. did everything that was required. can't remember number) Harry Cardwell - made the most of a flagging leicester defense but two cracking finishes. the second was special. well done to city youth squad who deserved the victory despite being on the back foot whenever leicester attacked, but in truth our defensive qualities shone and limited the opposition to scraps on the whole. I believe that leeds are top of the elite youth league, and liverpool are 'quite good' also. round 6 will be interesting (all the views are mine)
Neil Danns' doppelganger up front would be Harrison Panayiotou (none of us know how to pronounce it either) and he's a future star. He's already got a league goal for us. A 94th minute winner against Dirty Leeds
who was the left winger. lanky coloured lad who was leicester's MoM by a long chalk. definatly main threat going forward
To be fair, its nice to see the young lads do well. But at this stage of their career wins are not important. Just playing at the highest level possible. Which is why i'm very happy that our young lads are playing in reserve and development teams week in week out.
who was the left winger. lanky coloured lad who was leicester's MoM by a long chalk. definatly main threat going forward. for what it was worth, he wore number 10
No idea, didn't see the game or anything. I'll do a bit of research and i'll tell you. What was his number?
10. he was easily your best player, although a sizeable full back would probably hace knocked him into row Z
10. he was easily your best player, although a sizeable full back would probably have knocked him into row Z
I think he's already been identified as 'Joe Dodoo' by OLM. This was posted a while ago on FoxesTalk. His chant should he break into the first team, its golden. Alternatively, [video=youtube;POv-3yIPSWc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=POv-3yIPSWc[/video]
I very much doubt that especially if we are PL come August. Great result lads and looking forward to the KC QF. About time we beat a Lesta team even if it is at jnr level.
http://www.lcfc.com/news/article/270213-fa-youth-cup-defeat-for-under-18s-684837.aspx?pageView=full#anchored a good balanced report of affairs. pity our 'local' media cant do the game similar justice
I got the name Joe Dodoo for their No.10 from @tigerkj64, who was very kindly giving me the odd update from the game.
Billy Russell always does well with the Youth Team - Its the bit between playing in that team and getting into the first team where it all seems to go wrong. The last Youth Team that did very well had a number of players that were signed but then never made it past the reserves. Gav Holohan, Dean Deagle to name two. If we are ever going to have players stepping up to the first team then this must be addressed.
