Difficult Premier League Cup starts for Burnley and Bristol City
The group stage of the Premier League Cup got underway in the last week with all but two of the teams playing their first game, and it was Bournemouth and Aston Villa taking the honours with big wins against ourselves and Bristol City.
Burnley’s young under-23 team travelled to Dean Court last Saturday and came up against a Bournemouth side who included Charlie Daniels, Tyrone Mings and former Claret Marc Pugh in their line up. They proved to be too strong for us and ran out 7-1 winners with Pugh scoring two of the goals. Dan Agyei got our goal.
Ours wasn’t the heaviest defeat though, one day earlier Bristol City had been beaten 8-0 at Aston Villa. Villa won the competition last season, beating Swansea in the final, and they certainly got off to a good start in their attempts to win it again. 20-year-old Callum O’Hare was the star of the show for Villa and the midfielder bagged himself a hat trick.
West Brom and Liverpool are the other two teams in our group and they met on Sunday at the Hawthorns. West Brom won it 1-0 with a Callum Morton penalty.
It’s back to league action this week with a full programme running from Friday through to Monday. Our game is at Leeds and will now be played this Friday at Elland Road with our opponents currently heading the northern group.
The player featured is striker Rob Harker. He’s been out injured in the early part of the season but returned at Bournemouth as a substitute.
The League Tables and the Premier League Cup Group Tables are with our Fixtures and Results in U23/U18 Stats on the top menu. The league tables will be updated during the next week as results are confirmed.
Last week’s cup results, this week’s league fixtures, Burnley’s goalscorers and the current league tables can all be found below.
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
Thursday 4th October
Newcastle 2 Notts County 1
Oxford 1 Swansea 0
Plymouth 0 Derby 0
Friday 5th October
Aston Villa 8 Bristol City 0
Colchester 1 Reading 3
Everton 3 Doncaster 0
Leicester 3 Norwich 0
Sheffield United 3 Blackburn 1
Southampton 2 Leeds 1
Wolves 2 Hull 1
Saturday 6th October
Birmingham 1 Fulham 2
Bournemouth 7 Burnley 1
Sunday 7th October
Nottingham Forest 3 Exeter 1
West Brom 1 Liverpool 0
Monday 8th October
Sunderland 2 Charlton 0
THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES
Friday 12th October
Leeds v Burnley
Sheffield Wednesday v Crewe
Millwall v Watford
QPR v Ipswich
Monday 15th October
Bolton v Hull
Nottingham Forest v Birmingham
Sheffield United v Barnsley
Bristol City v Crystal Palace
Cardiff v Charlton
Coventry v Colchester
BURNLEY’S GOALSCORERS (LEAGUE & CUPS)
7: Dan Agyei
4: Tinashe Chakwana
2: Tunde Bayode, Ali Koiki
1: Rob Harker, Dwight McNeil, Christian N’Guessan, Kai Smith, Matěj Vydra, Nahki Wells
CURRENT LEAGUE TABLES
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Leeds | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 17 |
| Sheffield United | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 15 |
| Birmingham City | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 14 |
| Bolton Wanderers | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 13 |
| Nottingham Forest | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 12 |
| Burnley | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Hull City | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 11 |
| Barnsley | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 10 |
| Crewe Alexandra | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 9 |
| Sheffield Wednesday | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 9 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Ipswich Town | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 17 |
| Bristol City | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 14 |
| Millwall | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 14 |
| Queens Park Rangers | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 17 | 12 |
| Crystal Palace | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 11 |
| Charlton Athletic | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 7 |
| Coventry City | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 7 |
| Cardiff City | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 5 |
| Watford | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 4 |
| Colchester United | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 3 |
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