Aha cheers for this btw... but... Yes!!! 4-1 to us on aggregate and I think that should be that but some really good players on either side. Our lads have done very well and also did well in the NextGen competition getting to the final but losing out to Villa... Hopefully this scoreline is what happens on Sunday!
Been a really good game! Think Nathan Ake looks like a very good player and I can see why he's played for your first-team. (Played in the Europa League a few weeks ago I think?) Certainly goals in the game for both sides which should make the second half interesting! Even though the result is just about decided... We are getting torn apart on the right-hand side with a lot of your moves coming from the right and I don't think our high line is helping as you have some pace on that side of the pitch. Looked good on the counter and as we've got to go for it in the second half, I think you'll probably get another goal. It better not be! We'll let you win this one and then we'll win on Sunday... Seems like a fair deal!
Yeah I went to Middlesbrough and Ake played against them and was my man of the match. He also got a game against Rubin I think and showed a lot of passion and desire which was good to see. Feruz is a top player though as is Boga... Aha as for Sunday... I'm sorry but we've already agreed to do the double over you in 3 days! I'm going from uni in Leeds to Anfield on Sunday so we had better win!
That was a good win for our yoof and hopefully more of the same on Sunday! Could have been more though but buzzing for Sunday now.. The scouse supporters chanting YNWA at the end... No offence to any Liverpool fans on here and on this board but... I hope we smash ya!
Great stuff from all those kids over the two legs, but your lads well deserved it. Good luck in the final.
Watched the second half of the second leg and thought Baker and your number 11 were very good - whoever he was - Boga? Pity our U18 team only had Jerome Sinclair as a stand out player - we've promoted or loaned other 'starlets'. You did look a level above is, excuses aside! Ake definitely stood out, not just for his goal.
breaking into a team like Chelsea is sooo hard, your owner is paying 30 mil for players and wants them to play so any youth player would be used only for non important cup games and 3 minute cameos. Your U18s did poorly this year and did not qualify for the Elite stage. If you look at my team Southampton, we have 2 Chelsea boys, Luke Shaw was never involved with Chelsea but is a Chelsea boy, only 17 and has played most this season- yet if he was at Chelsea he would not have got a game this year. Jack Cork never got a look in (although you did have the best midfields in the premiership 3 years ago) but now your team is crying out for a defensive player like Cork to play alongside Ramires. Man U have a great record of bringing through youngsters but SAF has the full backing of the board, something that any manager you get next will never have so he will not try his youngsters however talented. So many young players promise so much and then fade away, we only need to look at Josh who is now struggling to get into the Boro side. Its a tricky problem to solve, every fan wants homegrown players in the team- but they also want the best available players as well
