Manchester City v Spurs Youth Match Reports

After two 3-4 defeats, when Norwegian Oscar Bobb made some space in the box and found the net, it was an inauspicious start.  However, Spurs started to make inroads into the City defence.  Nile John made a run past three blue shirts from just inside their half and his shot from inside the box had the power taken out of it by a deflection.  With 32 minutes gone, Spurs drew level, after nice work by Harvey White and Yago Santiago released Jack Clarke, who drifted past Rico Lewis and fired a low ball to the near post, where Dilan Markanday got to the ball first to find the net with a neat finish.

Three minutes before the break, the lead swung in Tottenham’s favour, with White and Santiago linking up again to give the Spurs captain the chance to curl it past the keeper from outside the box.  City tried to get an equaliser before the break, but when McAtee looked poised to score, a few yards from goal, Kallum Cesay made a brilliant saving tackle. 

In the second half, Daniel Ogwuru missed three chances before Clarke broke away on the right wing to replicate his cross and Markanday repeated his near post finish.  Both keepers were busy in the closing half hour, with Slicker denying Markanday a hat-trick on two occasions, while Thimothee Lo Tutala produced good saves from McAtee and Bobb to make sure Spurs finished with the points.

Teams :
Manchester City –  Cieran Slicker, Rico Lewis, Finley Burns (Adam 90), Luke Mbete (c), Josh Wilson-Esbrand (Oscar Tarensi 46), Romeo Lavia, Oscar Bobb, Shea Charles, Daniel Ogwuru (Kwaku Oduroh 65), James McAtee, Luca Barrington.
Subs not used :  Mikki van Sas, Matthew Whittingham
Spurs –   Thimothee Lo-Tutala, Michael Craig, Kallum Cesay, Brooklyn Lyons-Foster, Maksim Paskotsi (Tobi Omole 90), Malachi Fagan-Walcott, Jack Clarke, Harvey White (c), Dilan Markanday, Nile John, Yago Santiago (Marcel Lavinier 83) 
Subs not used : –  Josh Oluwayemi, Matthew Craig, Marqes Muir
Ref. : –  Anthony Backhouse
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