Defeats keep the under-21s in sixth place
We went into the week’s fixtures on a terrific run of form but came out of it with two defeats which has kept us in sixth place in the north group of the Professional Development League.
Leading against Crewe last Friday, it all went against us when an injury to Brad Grant and a red csrd for Noah Adekoya left us with nine men as Crewe came back to win 3-1 in a game that we should have had wrapped up.
Two days ago, we were beaten 6-1 at Hull with Tyrell Sellars-Fleming hitting a hat trick for the home side for whom Burnley’s Callum West appeared as a substitute and, potentially scored their fourth goal two minutes after coming on.
We finished the game with ten players when defender Benn Ward was sent off and the starting eleven included four players from the under-18s. There were two more under-18s who came on as substitutes.
It wasn’t a busy week in the league but Birmingham and Sheffield Wednesday, the top two in the north both played and won. Both have played 25 games and have won 47 and 45 points respectively but Sheffield United sit on 41 points and have four games in hand.
Our two defeats mean we remain a point behind Barnsley and five points behind Fleetwood and now with just two games in hand.
Neither of the top two in the south group were in action so Millwall still lead QPR by eight points from one game more, but Bournemouth, who beat Charlton, have now moved ahead of QPR and trail Millwall by six points.
This week sees us play twice. We are at Sheffield United tomorrow for a previously north group game and over three days next week there are nine north/south games with the south group teams at home, and that includes our trip to Ipswich on Tuesday.
The player featured this week is Tommy McDermott who scored our goal at Hull.
The League Tables and our Fixtures and Results can be found within U21/U18 Stats on the top menu.
The recent results and this week’s fixtures are below along with our goalscorers, the league’s leading goalscorers and the current league tables.
Last Week’s Results
North
Friday 29th March
Burnley 1 Crewe 3
Tuesday 2nd April
Birmingham 3 Crewe 1
Hull 6 Burnley 1
Sheffield Wednesday 2 Wigan 0
South
Friday 29th March
Charlton 1 Bournemouth 2
Tuesday 2nd April
QPR v Charlton – match postponed
Watford 0 Swansea 5
North/South
Tuesday 2nd April
Bristol City v Fleetwood – rearranged for 14th May
This Week’s Fixtures
North
Friday 5th April
Sheffield United v Burnley
North/South
Monday 8th April
Colchester v Birmingham
Swansea v Fleetwood
Watford v Hull
Tuesday 9th April
Bristol City v Sheffield Wednesday
Cardiff v Wigan
Ipswich v Burnley
Millwallv Coventry
QPR v Crewe
Wednesday 10th April
Charlton v Barnsley
Burnley Goalscorers (League)
8: Joe Westley
7: Vernon Masara
4: Tom Tweedy
3: Joe Bevan
2: Will Hugill, Tommy McDermott, Mikey O’Neill, Logan Pye, Lewis Richardson, Renaldo Torraj, own goals
1: Joe Ashton, Darko Churlinov, Alex Healy-Byrne, Lucas Wane
Burnley Goalscorers (Cups)
7: Lewis Richardson
4: Joe Westley
3: Will Hugill, Han-Noah Massengo, Tommy McDermott, Mikey O’Neill
1: Joe Bevan, Darko Churlinov, Jez Davies, Kian Le Fondre, Ackeme Francis-Burrell, Vernon Masara, Basilio Rieno Socoliche, Renaldo Torraj, Tom Tweedy
Leading Goalscorers
14: Patrick Casey (Charlton)
13: Daniel Adu-Adjei (Bournemouth)
12: Junior Dixon (Birmingham), Aiden Marsh (Barnsley)
11: Abdul Abdulmalik (Millwall), Bailey Cadamarteri (Sheffield Wednesday), Kyrell WIlson (Swansea)
10: Fábio Jaló (Barnsley)
9: Leon Ayinde (Ipswich), Tyrell Sellers-Fleming (Hull)
League Tables
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Birmingham | 25 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 51 | 30 | 47 |
| Sheffield Wednesday | 25 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 51 | 30 | 45 |
| Sheffield United | 21 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 57 | 24 | 41 |
| Fleetwood | 23 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 41 | 38 | 39 |
| Barnsley | 23 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 44 | 40 | 35 |
| Burnley | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 40 | 36 | 34 |
| Hull | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 41 | 46 | 27 |
| Wigan | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 37 | 49 | 22 |
| Coventry | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 33 | 48 | 22 |
| Peterborough | 23 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 36 | 57 | 19 |
| Crewe | 21 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 31 | 54 | 15 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Millwall | 24 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 61 | 38 | 48 |
| Bournemouth | 24 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 45 | 39 | 42 |
| QPR | 23 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 51 | 35 | 40 |
| Swansea | 23 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 59 | 45 | 36 |
| Ipswich | 24 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 51 | 55 | 36 |
| Watford | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 38 | 55 | 30 |
| Charlton | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 50 | 40 | 27 |
| Bristol City | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 28 | 48 | 23 |
| Cardiff | 23 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 38 | 54 | 22 |
| Colchester | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 34 | 56 | 18 |
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