Quiet week in under-23 league as cup games start
Only three outstanding games have been played in this week’s Professional Development League as the first set of Premier League Cup fixtures were played.
Monday saw Cardiff beat Millwall in an all south game while two games between north and south were played yesterday with both going the way of the southern teams. Watford won at Crewe while the other game was between the two pointless teams in the league, Ipswich from the south at home against Bolton from the north. Ipswich led 6-0 with ten minutes to go but Bolton came back to score three times in the closing period to take the final score to 6-3.
The north group table has hardly changed but the south group has new leaders with Watford going ahead of Coventry although the Sky Blues do now have two games in hand. Ipswich, last year’s south group winners, are still bottom but at least they’ve reduced the deficit to four points. Bolton, who remain pointless in the north have games in hand but they are five points adrift with the two Sheffield clubs in the positions above them.
It’s back to league action this week, starting this afternoon and ending next Monday evening with our game at Wigan. The top two play the two Sheffield clubs, second place Hull are at home against Wednesday on Saturday while leaders Forest travel to United on Monday.
As for the cup, all teams have now played once except Blackburn and Crystal Palace in our group. They should have met last week but the game has been put back to next Thursday.
The player featured this week is goalkeeper Lukas Jensen who has joined the club recently and played in each of the last four league and cup games that started with him making two important saves in the penalty shoot out Lancashire Senior Cup win against Fleetwood.
The League Tables and the Premier League Cup Group Tables are updated as results are confirmed and can be found with our Fixtures & Results within U23/U18 Stats on the top menu.
Last week’s league and cup results are all below followed by this week’s league fixtures, the league’s leading goalscorers, our goalscorers and the current league tables.
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE
Monday 7th October
Cardiff 2 Millwall 1
Wednesday 9th October
Crewe 1 Watford 4
Ipswich 6 Bolton 3
PREMIER LEAGUE CUP
Thursday 3rd October
Crystal Palace v Blackburn – rescheduled
Exeter 3 Aston Villa 0
Plymouth 1 Watford 1
Friday 4th October
Charlton 1 Swansea 2
Hull 0 Newcastle 1
Leeds 0 Birmingham 0
Scunthorpe 0 West Brom 2
Saturday 5th October
Bournemouth 1 Nottingham Forest 0
Southampton 1 Stoke 1
Sunday 6th October
Fulham 2 Everton 1
Liverpool 3 Wigan 2
Middlesbrough 1 Burnley 1
Monday 7th October
Derby 1 Wolves 2
Huddersfield 0 Sunderland 0
Reading 2 Colchester 2
THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES
Thursday 10th October
Millwall v Coventry
Friday 11th October
Barnsley v Birmingham
QPR v Charlton
Sunday 13th October
Hull v Sheffield Wednesday
Monday 14th October
Bolton v Crewe
Sheffield United v Nottingham Forest
Wigan v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Watford
Ipswich v Cardiff
LEADING GOALSCORERS (League)
7: Joseph Hungbo (Watford), Ali Koiki (Burnley)
6: Elloit Simoes (Barnsley)
5: Brennan Johnson (Nottingham Forest)
4: George Alexander (Millwall), Max Biamou (Coventry), Sam Dalby (Watford), Charlie Jolley (Wigan), Will Swan (Nottingham Forest), Reece York (Sheffield United)
BURNLEY’S GOALSCORERS (League & Cups)
7: Ali Koiki
2: Rob Harker
1: Tunde Bayode, Mitch George, Adam Phillips, Lewis Richardson, Bobby Thomas, Scott Wilson
CURRENT LEAGUE TABLES
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Nottingham Forest | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 16 |
| Hull City | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 15 |
| Burnley | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 14 |
| Crewe Alexandra | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 12 |
| Wigan | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 12 |
| Leeds | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 11 |
| Birmingham City | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 9 |
| Barnsley | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 9 |
| Sheffield United | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 7 |
| Sheffield Wednesday | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 5 |
| Bolton Wanderers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Coventry City | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 13 |
| Watford | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| Bristol City | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 10 |
| Cardiff City | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 9 |
| Charlton Athletic | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 8 |
| Crystal Palace | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 8 |
| Queens Park Rangers | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 8 |
| Millwall | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
| Colchester United | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 7 |
| Ipswich Town | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 0 |
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