Harry Kane and Tom Carroll both named in the squad for this evening's game. Setting off for the game in about 20 minutes. Match report later.
Spurs: Jordan Archer, Jonathan Miles, Alex McQueen, Darren McQueen, Yago Falque, Ryan Fredericks, Kevin Stewart, Giancarlo Gallifuoco, Shaquile Coulthirst, Nabil Bentaleb, Grant Ward, Ruben Lameiras, Dominic Ball, Aaron McEneff, Harry Kane, Tom Carroll. Streams as/when they are confirmed as working.
Jordan Archer, Ryan Fredericks, Dominic Ball, Kevin Stewart, Alex McQueen; Nabil Bentaleb, Tom Carroll, Giancarlo Gallifuoco; Shaquile Coulthirst, Yago Falque, Harry Kane. Jonathan Miles, Darren McQueen, Ruben Lameiras, Aaron McEneff, Grant Ward.
Great game, it's good watching the kids, no diving, haranguing the ref, play acting etc. Perhaps there should be an age limit of 21 in professional football.
Was a lot more yellow cards dished out then I saw in any U21 game last season. Bentaleb is too prone to getting that silly first one. Carroll was average tonight. Fortunately Falque and Kane were on song.
4-2 (Falque x2, Kane, Coulthirst) Man Utd's youth teams were just as bad as their senior team in regards to that entire list.
Just back after witnessing a very impressive display from this young Spurs side. The team arrived in good time for the scheduled 7pm start. However, in their wisdom, Mr Sherwood and Mr Ferdinand, prefer to travel separately from the squad and it was their delay in traffic which delayed the kick off by some 50 minutes. The attraction of seeing the mighty Spurs in town, drew an attendance of 2973 and anyone wearing Spurs' colours was immediately directed to the away end. Rarely can crowd segregation have been needed at an under 21 match. The opening stages were cagey and after Archer parried away a shot, it looked as if Chelsea had taken the initiative. They went 1-0 up from a harsh penalty decision and this sparked Spurs into life. Little Tommy Carroll started getting busy, Kane started linking up and Falque looked bright. In fact Falque could and probably should have scored 4 in the first half alone. Kane plonked a 30 yard free kick onto ythe roof of the net and Falque smashed one onto the crossbar. The backline looked comfortable and confident in possession. Both Ryan Fredericks at right back and Kevin Stewart at CB have had excellent pre seasons and once again they excelled tonight. That we ended up only scoring four times flatters Chelsea. Once wel kick started into life after their penalty, we were superb, playing some lovely one touch and two touch football, good running off the ball, good link up play and plenty of quick movement in possession. Tom Carroll was in fine form and Shaque Coulthirst got a standing ovation from the many Spurs fans when he was substituted. He looked a good player this evening. This was a good win to start the season off, but importantly it was an impressive one. Lots of talent wearing the white shirt tonight and we won playing he right way. Well done lads.
Don't take this the wrong way RDBD, what made you think he was only average which should be noticeable in a good team performance, just curious what you saw?
"what made you think he was only average which should be noticeable in a good team performance" If he is to going to be the playmaker CM, he has to be a lot more involved. He doesn't seem to go looking for it enough. I noticed similar too in the games at the tail end of the U21 season, when Luongo and Parrett both went on loan. If he needs more spadework done for him in MF in order to play his best game, so be it. I contrast this to Pritchard, who in every Spurs game I have watched, always looks to get involved and influence the game. Whatever the state of play is.
Was Coulthirst back to playing a deeper role again? Edit: I mean behind the striker, or I suppose it could've been the other way around with Kane playing. Good win to kick off the campaign
