Tuesday 25 September 2018 ended up being triumphant for both Manchester City seniors as well as the EDS lads. While the first team came away from Oxford United victorious in the third round of the Carabao Cup 3-0 City’s Academy starlets were cruising past League Two outfit Crewe Alexandra.
Checkatrade Trophy – Northern Section Group D
Crewe Alexandra 1-4 Manchester City EDS
Seventy-one Blues mingled with the 810 Alexandra Stadium crowd, and by all accounts, those in attendance were thoroughly entertained by Paul Harsley’s U21s.
Tom Dele-Bashiru began the goal-fest with just 120 seconds on the clock with a well-worked goal then a beautiful piece of play from Lorenzo Gonzalez 20 minutes later gave the visitors a two-goal cushion.
Crewe’s Alex Nichols came on at halftime and six minutes from the restart got one back for the home side.
City’s Taylor Richards restored the two-goal lead from the penalty spot with only 12 minutes to go then fellow substitute Henri Ogunby made it four on the stroke of fulltime.
Crewe manager David Artell.
“It was difficult for the players tonight because they didn’t know the opposition, but that doesn’t mean they can make poor decisions on the ball. It has to improve.”
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— Crewe Alexandra F.C. (@crewealexfc) September 25, 2018
Checkatrade Trophy – Northern Section Group D
- Manchester City U21 – played 2 – points – 4
- Crewe Alexandra – played 2 – points – 4
- Shrewsbury Town – played 1 – points – 2
- Tranmere Rovers – played 1 – points – 0
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— Man City Academy (@ManCityAcademy) September 25, 2018
City’s EDS will face their third and final group game against Tranmere Rovers on Tuesday 30 October.
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— Luke Bolton (@lukebolton07) September 25, 2018
Alexandra Stadium
Checkatrade Trophy - Northern Section Group D
25/09/2018 7:30 pm
Attendance: 810
| Crewe Alexandra. | Manchester City U21 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Nicholls (51) | A Dele-Bashiru (2), L Gonzalez (22), T Richards (78 pen), H Ogunby (90) | ||||||
| Ben Garratt | Tom Scott | ||||||
| Corey Whelan | Alpha Richard Dionkou | ||||||
| George Ray | Colin Rösler | ||||||
| Perry Ng | Nathaniel Ogbeta | ||||||
| Kevin O'Connor | Jeremie Frimpong | (80) | |||||
| Callum Ainley | (45) | Felix Nmecha | (59) | ||||
| Tom Lowery | (76) | Iker Pozo La Rosa | |||||
| Ryan Wintle | Ayotomiwa Dele-Bashiru | ||||||
| Oliver Finney | Rabbi Matondo | ||||||
| Shaun Miller | (77) | Lorenzo Gonzalez | (73) | ||||
| Jordan Bowery | Ian Carlo Poveda-Ocampo | ||||||
Substitutes |
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| Michael Raynes | Taylor Richards | (59) | |||||
| Chris Porter | (77) | Keyendrah Simmonds | |||||
| James Jones | (76) | Henri Ogunby | (73) | ||||
| Dave Richards | Ben Knight | ||||||
| Alex Nicholls | (45) | Curtis Anderson | |||||
| Charlie Kirk | Lewis Fiorini | ||||||
| Lewis Reilly | Taylor Harwood-Bellis | 980) | |||||
Game Statistics |
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| 10 | Goal attempts | 13 |
| 2 | On Target | 7 |
| 1 | Corners | 5 |
| 9 | Fouls | 9 |
| 0 | Yellow Cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 45 | % | 55 |