Clarets slip one place in youth league
With not too many games having been played, it’s two weeks since we last reviewed the U18 Premier League during which time we’ve played just the one game, that a week last Saturday against Stoke, and suffered a 1-0 defeat.
It’s seen us drop down one place in the table to sixth and with us not playing again until a week on Tuesday we will definitely drop another place tomorrow when Everton and Derby, the two teams behind us on goal difference, meet.
One thing we know with some certainty is that the north league will be won by one of the two Manchester clubs or Liverpool and in all likelihood that will come down to a battle between the two in Manchester with United currently leading City by two points. Liverpool are only one point further behind but have played two more games.
At the other end of the table, Leeds got off the bottom three days ago with a win against Derby. Sunderland returned to bottom place although they did have the opportunity to move up again a day later but were comfortably beaten by Middlesbrough.
In the south league, Fulham have moved back above Brighton into second place and now trail Crystal Palace by three points with a game in hand. That top three can’t do much more. Brighton won their one game 2-0 at Aston Villa while Palace beat Southampton 4-0. Fulham have played twice since the last review, recording 5-0 and 4-0 wins against Norwich and West Ham respectively.
The gap between games for us is longer than the one the first team have recently had with the next game coming 24 days after that Stoke defeat. It’s going to be a tough run in for us with us still having to play Liverpool and then, in the last four games, two against Manchester City.
The featured player this week is Benn Ward who was signed from Hastings in January of this year.
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 our goalscorers and the current league tables.
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
North
Thursday 25th March
Sunderland 1 Wolves 3
Saturday 27th March
Burnley 0 Stoke 1
Middlesbrough 1 Blackburn 3
Tuesday 30th March
Sunderland 0 Blackburn 2
Tuesday 6th April
Leeds 4 Derby 3
Liverpool 4 Wolves 1
Wednesday 7th April
Sunderland 0 Middlesbrough 3
South
Saturday 27th March
Fulham 5 Norwich 0
Reading 3 Arsenal 4
Southampton 1 Chelsea 3
West Ham 2 Leicester 1
Tuesday 30th March
Fulham 4 West Ham 0
Saturday 3rd April
Aston Villa 0 Brighton 2
Crystal Palace 4 Southampton 0
Leicester 3 Reading 4
Tuesday 6th April
Southampton 2 Arsenal 2
Wednesday 7th April
Crystal Palace 5 West Ham 1
THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES
North
Saturday 10th April
Derby v Everton
Leeds v Liverpool
Manchester United v Stoke
Wolves v Sunderland
South
Saturday 10th April
Aston Villa v Chelsea
Brighton v Norwich
Fulham v Arsenal
Southampton v Tottenham
West Brom v Leicester
West Ham v Reading
Tuesday 13th April
Arsenal v Reading
BURNLEY’S GOALSCORERS
9: Sam Unwin
6: Michael Mellon
4: Joe McGlynn
3: Joe Smyth-Ferguson
2: Dylan Moonan, Jake Rooney
1: Corey Brennan, Jacob Hamilton, Kade Ratchford, Ben Woods
CURRENT LEAGUE TABLES
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Manchester United | 18 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 50 | 19 | 45 |
| Manchester City | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 58 | 18 | 43 |
| Liverpool | 20 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 59 | 24 | 42 |
| Wolves | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 32 | 33 | 30 |
| Middlesbrough | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 35 | 30 | 27 |
| Burnley | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 31 | 29 | 26 |
| Everton | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 27 | 28 | 26 |
| Derby | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 35 | 46 | 26 |
| Blackburn | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 29 | 40 | 23 |
| Stoke | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 37 | 19 |
| Newcastle | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 29 | 38 | 14 |
| Leeds | 19 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 53 | 12 |
| Sunderland | 17 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 20 | 51 | 10 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Crystal Palace | 20 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 49 | 29 | 44 |
| Fulham | 19 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 56 | 23 | 41 |
| Brighton | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 52 | 28 | 39 |
| Aston Villa | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 22 | 32 |
| Tottenham | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 41 | 24 | 30 |
| Chelsea | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 47 | 36 | 30 |
| Arsenal | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 35 | 36 | 27 |
| Norwich | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 41 | 40 | 22 |
| West Brom | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 36 | 46 | 21 |
| Reading | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 51 | 16 |
| West Ham | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 23 | 49 | 16 |
| Leicester | 18 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 27 | 57 | 10 |
| Southampton | 18 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 54 | 7 |
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