No change at the top of the youth league as big clubs win
The week started with Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City occupying the top three places in the U18 Premier League North Division and the three remain there having all won their games, scoring thirteen goals in the process.
The two Manchester clubs won last Saturday. City beat Sunderland 5-0, a familiar score for that particular Manchester club, while United beat Newcastle 4-1. Liverpool then needed to beat us last night to regain their lead at the top which they duly did with a 4-1 victory.
Conceding four against them might have been a disappointment to us but this is a Liverpool team who had already scored four against Everton and Newcastle this season while netting five goals against Stoke and Leeds. Only Newcastle among that group were able, like us, to score a goal.
Middlesbrough were right up there with the top three but they’ve dropped to fifth with defeat against Wolves who have now gone above them in the table. We are currently a very creditable eighth with ten points from our ten games. That leaves us well clear of the bottom three, Leeds, Blackburn and Sunderland.
Leicester’s 1-1 draw at Spurs was the big surprise in the South League. With Crystal Palace losing at Aston Villa, the point enabled Spurs to move into second place in the table and for Leicester it was a first point of the season in their ninth game. It looked odds on a ninth successive defeat too until Wanya Marcal-Madivadua scored a last minute equaliser for them.
Moving into the final month of the year, we are without a game on this first weekend which sees four games in the north and three in the south.
Our featured player this week is first year scholar, midfielder Kade Ratchford.
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
Saturday 28th November
Derby 5 Blackburn 1
Manchester City 5 Sunderland 0
Manchester United 4 Newcastle 1
Stoke 2 Leeds 2
Wolves 2 Middlesbrough 1
Tuesday 1st December
Everton 3 Leeds 0
Liverpool 4 Burnley 1
South
Saturday 28th November
Aston Villa 2 Crystal Palace 1
Fulham v Chelsea – match rearranged
Reading 2 Brighton 3
Southampton 1 Norwich 2
Tottenham 1 Leicester 1
West Brom 2 West Ham 2
THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES
North
Friday 4th December
Stoke v Blackburn
Saturday 5th December
Everton v Wolves
Manchester City v Derby
Manchester United v Liverpool
South
Saturday 5th December
Arsenal v Leicester
Crystal Palace v Tottenham
Reading v Norwich
BURNLEY’S GOALSCORERS
6: Sam Unwin
4: Joe McGlynn
2: Jake Rooney
1: Michael Mellon, Dylan Moonan, Kade Ratchford, Ben Woods
CURRENT LEAGUE TABLES
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Liverpool | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 9 | 21 |
| Manchester United | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 6 | 21 |
| Manchester City | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 20 |
| Wolves | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 18 |
| Middlesbrough | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 17 |
| Everton | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 16 |
| Derby | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 12 |
| Burnley | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 10 |
| Newcastle | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 8 |
| Stoke | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 8 |
| Leeds | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 5 |
| Blackburn | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 26 | 4 |
| Sunderland | 7 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 1 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Aston Villa | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 22 |
| Tottenham | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 18 |
| Brighton | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 18 |
| Crystal Palace | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 18 |
| Fulham | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 16 |
| Chelsea | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 14 |
| Arsenal | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 13 |
| Norwich | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 10 |
| West Ham | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 7 |
| Reading | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 21 | 5 |
| Southampton | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 5 |
| West Brom | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 5 |
| Leicester | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 37 | 1 |
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