Shock win gives rivals boost ahead of mini-derby
It’s Blackburn Rovers v Burnley tomorrow in the U18 Premier League and the game will kick off with the teams much closer in the table than we might have thought a couple of weeks ago.
In the games played on the first Saturday in February, we came back to draw 2-2 against Wolves while they were beating bottom of the table Leeds. That took them within six points of us and that has now been reduced to three points. Last Saturday we were beaten 2-1 at Derby, with Corey Brennan (pictured) scoring our goal, but the shock result came three days ago when Blackburn, who have been struggling close to the bottom of the table all season, beat second place Liverpool away.
Liverpool had kicked off the week in second place, three points behind Manchester United and three points ahead of Manchester City although City, with games in hand were one to be watched. United won the Manchester derby last Saturday 4-2 and with Liverpool’s defeat they now lead the table by six points.
The bigger news, however, has come at the bottom of the table where Sunderland not only won for a second time this season but moved off bottom place too. They beat Derby 3-1 on Wednesday and that has taken them above Leeds who sit bottom with just one win all season.
Top of the south league Crystal Palace had no game and that allowed Fulham, in second place, to move within a point after a big 5-0 win against Spurs. It wasn’t the biggest score in the south, Brighton hit Southampton for seven.
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 13th February
Derby 2 Burnley 1
Leeds v Sunderland – match postponed, rearranged for 2nd March
Manchester United 4 Manchester City 2
Middlesbrough v Newcastle – match postponed, rearranged for 23rd March
Wolves 1 Stoke 1
Tuesday 16th February
Liverpool 0 Blackburn 1
Wednesday 17th February
Sunderland 3 Derby 1
South
Saturday 13th February
Aston Villa v West Brom – match postponed, rearranged for 20th April
Crystal Palace v Chelsea – match postponed, rearranged for 16th March
Tuesday 16th February
Arsenal 1 West Ham 0
Brighton 7 Southampton 1
Wednesday 17th February
Fulham 5 Tottenham 0
THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES
North
Saturday 20th February
Blackburn v Burnley
Derby v Wolves
Leeds v Everton
Manchester City v Middlesbrough
Newcastle v Stoke
Sunderland v Liverpool
South
Saturday 20th February
Aston Villa v Tottenham
Brighton v Arsenal
Chelsea v Reading
Crystal Palace v Norwich
Fulham v West Brom
Leicester v Southampton
BURNLEY’S GOALSCORERS
9: Sam Unwin
4: Joe McGlynn
2: Jake Rooney
1: Corey Brennan, Michael Mellon, Dylan Moonan, Kade Ratchford, Joe Smyth-Ferguson, Ben Woods
CURRENT LEAGUE TABLES
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Manchester United | 14 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 15 | 36 |
| Liverpool | 15 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 44 | 21 | 30 |
| Manchester City | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 12 | 27 |
| Wolves | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 23 |
| Middlesbrough | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 26 | 19 | 20 |
| Everton | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 19 |
| Derby | 13 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 21 | 33 | 18 |
| Burnley | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 17 |
| Blackburn | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 38 | 14 |
| Stoke | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 27 | 12 |
| Newcastle | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 11 |
| Sunderland | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 24 | 7 |
| Leeds | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 34 | 5 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Crystal Palace | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 18 | 30 |
| Fulham | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 20 | 29 |
| Aston Villa | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 13 | 26 |
| Tottenham | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 20 | 25 |
| Arsenal | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 21 | 22 |
| Brighton | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 37 | 24 | 21 |
| Chelsea | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 18 | 20 |
| Norwich | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 31 | 29 | 16 |
| West Brom | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 29 | 34 | 15 |
| West Ham | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 34 | 11 |
| Reading | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 39 | 8 |
| Southampton | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 35 | 5 |
| Leicester | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 45 | 5 |
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