Clarets climb under-23 league after win at Southampton
Last Sunday’s 2-0 win at Southampton moved the under-23s three places in Premier League 2 Division 2 although a day later we dropped back one place when Nottingham Forest beat Birmingham City 5-0.
We are still 11th in the fourteen team league but we’ve now picked up four points from the last two games having previously lost the first three. It’s left Sunderland, whose only points came against us, and Birmingham a point behind with Southampton now three points behind us.
It’s close at the top with four teams all on ten points this morning with Fulham leading the way courtesy of the better goal difference. Forest were the big winners this week with that previously mentioned 5-0 win in which they had four different goalscorers.
Manchester City lead Division 1. They beat Crystal Palace 4-2 but there was no hat trick this week for James Mcatee although he did score two of the four to take his total for the season to nine which has earned him a first team call this week for the League Cup.
Arsenal are just a point behind after a big 6-1 win at Chelsea. Five of those goals came from Falorin Balogun who scored twice and Mika Biereth who went one better with a hat trick.
Chelsea are the strugglers. They are bottom with two points although only a point behind Derby and Blackburn.
We’ve got a full fixture list this week, kicking off today until Monday, in both divisions with us at home against Reading on Monday.
The featured player this week is Ne-Jai Tucker who scored the second goal at Southampton.
The League Tables and our Fixtures and Results can be found within U23/U18 Stats on the top menu.
All last week’s results and this week’s fixtures are below along with, the league’s leading goalscorers, our goalscorers and the current league tables.
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
Division 1
Friday 17th September
Blackburn 3 Tottenham 3
Saturday 18th September
Manchester City 4 Crystal Palace 2
Manchester United 2 Brighton 1
Sunday 19th September
Chelsea 1 Arsenal 6
Liverpool 0 Leeds 4
Monday 20th September
Derby 3 West Ham 1
Leicester 3 Everton 1
Division 2
Friday 17th September
Aston Villa 4 West Brom 2
Sunday 19th September
Southampton 0 Burnley 2
Monday 20th September
Newcastle 2 Stoke 3
Nottingham Forest 5 Birmingham 0
Reading 3 Norwich 3
Sunderland 1 Middlesbrough 3
Wolves 2 Fulham 1
THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES
Division 1
Friday 24th September
Brighton v Leicester
Chelsea v Liverpool
Everton v Manchester United
Leeds v Blackburn
West Ham v Crystal Palace
Saturday 25th September
Manchester City v Arsenal
Monday 27th September
Tottenham v Derby
Division 2
Friday 24th September
Fulham v Newcastle
Middlesbrough v Nottingham Forest
Monday 27th September
Birmingham v Southampton
Burnley v Reading
Norwich v West Brom
Stoke v Aston Villa
Wolves v Sunderland
LEADING GOALSCORERS
Division 1
9: James Mcatee (Manchester City)
5: Robert Street (Crystal Palace)
4: Folarin Balogun (Arsenal), Mika Biereth (Arsenal), Evan Ferguson (Brighton), Joe Gelhardt (Leeds), Dilan Markanday (Tottenham), Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (Crystal Palace), Harvey Vale (Chelsea)
Division 2
6: Abu Kamara (Norwich)
5: Dylan Stephenson (Newcastle)
4: Caleb Chukwuemeka (Aston Villa), Josh Coburn (Middlesbrough)
BURNLEY’S GOALSCORERS (including cups)
2: Michael Mellon, Max Thompson, Ne-Jai Tucker, Sam Unwin
1: Richard Nartey
1: own goals
LEAGUE TABLES
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Manchester City | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 13 |
| Arsenal | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 12 |
| Brighton | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 10 |
| Leeds | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 10 |
| Tottenham | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 8 |
| West Ham | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 7 |
| Crystal Palace | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 6 |
| Manchester United | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Leicester | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 5 |
| Liverpool | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 |
| Everton | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 |
| Derby | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| Blackburn | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 3 |
| Chelsea | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 2 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Fulham | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 10 |
| Norwich | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 10 |
| Aston Villa | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 10 |
| Wolves | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 |
| Middlesbrough | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 9 |
| Stoke | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
| West Brom | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 9 |
| Reading | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 |
| Newcastle | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 |
| Nottingham Forest | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 |
| Burnley | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 |
| Sunderland | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 3 |
| Birmingham | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 3 |
| Southampton | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
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