alreadyexists Posted September 21, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted September 21, 2020 The U18s have won two in two games now: Link Quote Aston Villa Under-18s made it two wins from two games as they battled hard to beat Norwich City on Saturday. After a 2-1 victory against Leicester City in their league opener last weekend, the Villans saw off the Canaries thanks to Brad Young’s (pictured) second half penalty. But the visitors had to work hard to hold on in the final 12 minutes after Hayden Lindley and Paul Appiah were shown red cards. Fresh from a 5-1 victory against West Bromwich Albion last week, Norwich started brightly with Zak Brown sending a header narrowly wide. Canaries ‘keeper Sam Blair denied Villa with his feet as the away side pushed forward, but he could only watch later in the half as Dewain Sewell headed just past the post. The end-to-end action resumed after the break, but it wasn’t until the 67th minute when the deadlock was broken. Norwich defender Harry Pitcher handled a cross and the resulting spot kick was converted by striker Young, who scored his second in as many matches. Lindley’s first booking was followed quickly by his second, with just four minutes between the cards as he was sent-off on 78 minutes. The hosts pushed forward, buoyed by their numerical advantage, which became even more favourable when Appiah brought down a yellow shirt on the edge of the box to pick up his second booking with two minutes to play. But Villa held on to make it consecutive wins in the Under-18 Premier League, leaving them second in the table ahead of their next game against Reading on Saturday. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 20 hours ago, messi11 said: is Afoku any good? How rude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) *edit Edited September 23, 2020 by Kingman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Kingman said: Edited September 23, 2020 by sir_gary_cahill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) Any of our esteemed followers of the youth teams care to share their thoughts on Dominic Revan/Mungo Bridge being our 4th choice CB’s this season? With Engels name being touted as available, and with no links to a CB being targeted. I presume that’s the plan and fair play if so. Edited September 23, 2020 by thabucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 50 minutes ago, thabucks said: Any of our esteemed followers of the youth teams care to share their thoughts on Dominic Revan/Mungo Bridge being our 4th choice CB’s this season? With Engels name being touted as available, and with no links to a CB being targeted. I presume that’s the plan and fair play if so. Both of them are very good talents, I seem to say that quite a lot but then again, they all are Personally, I think Engels is good enough but I might be alone with that thought 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 U18s play Reading at 12:00, with Sinisalo out on loan and Onodi and Marschall with the U23s yesterday evening I imagine we will see either Josh Lane or Oliwier Zych making their debut. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 I'm losing track a bit here - I thought our best youth prospects were playing for the U23s now? Or are they also playing U18? Or do we have enough decent players to fill out both youth teams? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjvilla Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 1 hour ago, useless said: U18s play Reading at 12:00, with Sinisalo out on loan and Onodi and Marschall with the U23s yesterday evening I imagine we will see either Josh Lane or Oliwier Zych making their debut. Do you know anything of the under 16's useless? And who the keeper is there? Apparently, the young lad is from the town I live in but I cant find anything to back this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjvilla Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 1 hour ago, useless said: U18s play Reading at 12:00, with Sinisalo out on loan and Onodi and Marschall with the U23s yesterday evening I imagine we will see either Josh Lane or Oliwier Zych making their debut. Do you know anything of the under 16's useless? And who the keeper is there? Apparently, the young lad is from the town I live in but I cant find anything to back this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 I know a few of the names involved with the U16s but beyond that don't know much, what I know of the U18s and U23s is basically what can be found online, with the U16s much less details are published, haven't got a clue who plays in goal for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Line up: Marschall, Sylla, Swinkels, Chrisene, Ealing, Bogarde, Sewell, Reddin, Appiah, Young, Raikhy Subs: Zych, McBride, Zito, Trialist, Jay-Hart Was hoping to see Shakpoke involved, although the initial line-up last week didn't have Bogarde as being involved and then it was changed after the game so who knows. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Losing 1-0 at half-time. According to the official site we've had nine shots at goal five of those on target compared to their one shot on target, and have had 57% of the ball, so seem to be dominating if that's anything to go by. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Didn’t even know we signed Bogarde! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 1 hour ago, useless said: Line up: Marschall, Sylla, Swinkels, Chrisene, Ealing, Bogarde, Sewell, Reddin, Appiah, Young, Raikhy Subs: Zych, McBride, Zito, Trialist, Jay-Hart Was hoping to see Shakpoke involved, although the initial line-up last week didn't have Bogarde as being involved and then it was changed after the game so who knows. Thanks Useless, great work, any idea who the trialist is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Won 3-1 Bradley Young scored for the third game in a row then Bogarde assisted by Young scored on his full debut to put us in the lead, Taylor-Hart made it three 3 in injury time assisted by Bogarde. The trialist came off the bench for the last twenty minutes, if that's Afoka seems like they're having a good look at him. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Thanks Useless, can I ask how you’re keeping up with this match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 I don't know for sure who the trialist is, but I guess it's probably Afoka, it did cross my mind that they could have listed Shakpoke as 'trialist' because they didn't want to draw any attention, not sure why it would matter, but they didn't reveal that Bogarde had made his debut last week until after the game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Official site provides team news, score updates and stats for all U23 and U18 games now, not sure if that's something they've always done. we're top of the table I got the assists from soccerway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 3 minutes ago, useless said: I don't know for sure who the trialist is, but I guess it's probably Afoka, it did cross my mind that they could have listed Shakpoke as 'trialist' because they didn't want to draw any attention, not sure why it would matter, but they didn't reveal that Bogarde had made his debut last week until after the game. A very unfortunate surname, must feel abused whenever he’s called out! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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