Fulham five points clear after win at Burnley
Having gone on a run of seven league games without defeat, our under-23s were beaten 2-1 last Monday by Premier League 2 Division 2 leaders Fulham who, with that result, have now gone five points clear at the top of the table.
Fulham pulled further away with second place West Brom drawing at Wolves. It does leave the top two some way clear with only one point separating the four teams who are third to sixth. Aston Villa and Stoke both have 18 points with us on 17 along with Norwich.
Middlesbrough were fourth from bottom before the last fixtures; now they find themselves bottom. Birmingham beat them to move ahead of them as did both Reading, who drew against Aston Villa, and Southampton who recorded a big 5-0 win against Newcastle.
I’m not sure what’s happened at Southampton but having picked up just two points from their opening seven games, they’ve now won their last three with this 5-0 win adding to a 4-0 win against Villa in their previous game.
The surprise news in Division 1 was Manchester City losing at Everton, a defeat that cost them the chance of going top. Wet Ham, winners against Liverpool, have moved ahead of them and now trail leaders Arsenal by one point.
You could say Arsenal were fortunate to get even a point when they were 3-0 down at home against Leicester as the board went up for stoppage time. They then scored on 90+1, 90+3 and 90+7 to earn a draw.
Well done to Derby. Still bottom of the league, they did get their second win of the season and a big win at that. They beat Blackburn 6-0. They were 3-0 up after just nine minutes which included two from Jack Stretton who went on to complete a hat trick. They are still four points behind Chelsea who are next to bottom.
After a week off, we are back to a full fixture list which gets underway tomorrow with our game at Aston Villa on Monday evening.
The player featured this week is striker Joe McGlynn.
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 5th November
Brighton 1 Tottenham 1
Derby 6 Blackburn 0
Saturday 6th November
Arsenal 3 Leicester 3
Chelsea 1 Crystal Palace 2
Everton 3 Manchester City 2
Manchester United 3 Leeds 2
West Ham 3 Liverpool 0
Division 2
Friday 5th November
Norwich 4 Nottingham Forest 2
Southampton 5 Newcastle 0
Wolves 1 West Brom 1
Sunday 7th November
Middlesbrough 0 Birmingham 3
Stoke 2 Sunderland 2
Monday 8th November
Burnley 1 Fulham 2
Reading 2 Aston Villa 2
THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES
Division 1
Friday 19th November
Derby v Manchester United
Leeds v Chelsea
Saturday 20th November
Liverpool v Crystal Palace
West Ham v Manchester City
Monday 22nd November
Blackburn v Arsenal
Everton v Brighton
Leicester v Tottenham
Division 2
Friday 19th November
Birmingham v Wolves
Fulham v Stoke
Sunday 21st November
Middlesbrough v Norwich
Sunderland v Southampton
Monday 22nd November
Aston Villa v Burnley
Nottingham Forest v Newcastle
West Brom v Reading
LEADING GOALSCORERS
Division 1
10: Folarin Balogun (Arsenal), Dilan Markanday (Tottenham), James Mcatee (Manchester City)
8: Armstrong Oko-Flex (West Ham), Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (Crystal Palace)
6: Sam Burns (Blackburn), Alfie Devine (Tottenham), Evan Ferguson (Brighton), Joe Gelhardt (Leeds), Robert Street (Crystal Palace), Jack Stretton (Derby)
Division 2
10: Will Harris (Sunderland)
8: Dylan Stephenson (Newcastle)
7: Terry Ablade (Fulham), Thomas Dickson-Peters (Norwich), Abu Kamara (Norwich)
6: Caleb Chukwuemeka (Aston Villa), Michael Mellon (Burnley)
BURNLEY’S GOALSCORERS (including cups)
8: Michael Mellon
5: Ne-Jai Tucker
4: Sam Unwin
3: Max Thompson
2: Joe McGlynn
1: Jacob Bedeau, Anthony Glennon, Richard Nartey
2: own goals
LEAGUE TABLES
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Arsenal | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 21 | 23 |
| West Ham | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 17 | 22 |
| Manchester City | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 16 | 21 |
| Brighton | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 19 |
| Tottenham | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 21 | 18 |
| Manchester United | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 20 | 17 |
| Crystal Palace | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 25 | 24 | 15 |
| Leicester | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 22 | 13 |
| Leeds | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 26 | 12 |
| Liverpool | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 12 |
| Everton | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 11 |
| Blackburn | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 30 | 11 |
| Chelsea | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 10 |
| Derby | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 19 | 6 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Fulham | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 10 | 28 |
| West Brom | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 18 | 23 |
| Aston Villa | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 16 | 18 |
| Stoke | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 19 | 18 |
| Burnley | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 17 |
| Norwich | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 27 | 25 | 17 |
| Wolves | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 15 |
| Newcastle | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 14 |
| Sunderland | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 13 |
| Nottingham Forest | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 11 |
| Southampton | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 11 |
| Reading | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 10 |
| Birmingham | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 10 |
| Middlesbrough | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 20 | 9 |
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