Steel City leads the way
The two Sheffield clubs are back in the top two places in the Professional Development League after Sheffield United beat Barnsley 2-1 to climb above them and back into second place and just one point behind their local rivals Sheffield Wednesday.
It’s been a good week for the Blades and I’m sure they’ll consider second place in this league to be secondary to their first team winning two games, including the derby at Hillsborough, to go second in the Championship. But second they are, just one point behind Wednesday who do have a game in hand having not played this week.
As the games between teams in the same leagues got underway this week there were also wins for Leeds and Huddersfield against bottom of the table Bolton and Crewe respectively. The other game was our 0-0 draw at Hull.
In the south group it is League Two leading the way with Coventry going top after beating Ipswich who had led the table last week. Bristol City, whose only win came against us, are rooted to the bottom. They are four points behind Charlton who played in the highest scoring game of the week. They were beaten 4-3 at Cardiff for whom Anthony Pilkington hit a hat trick.
The league takes a break this week as the Premier League Cup gets underway. As a category 2 club, we went straight into the groups this season. Those groups have now been completed with four category 3 winners with Bournemouth, Bury, Portsmouth and Exeter beating Bristol City, Wigan, Southend and Dagenham & Redbridge respectively.
The player shown is midfielder Christian N’Guessan.
The League Tables are updated as results are confirmed as will be the Premier League Cup Group Tables and they can both be found with our Fixtures and Results within U23/U18 Stats on the top menu.
The latest results are below with the opening Premier League Cup fixtures, the next league fixtures, the league’s leading goalscorers, our goalscorers and the current tables.
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
Friday 22nd September
Bristol City 1 Crystal Palace 3
Leeds 1 Bolton 0
Monday 25th September
Cardiff 4 Charlton 3
Colchester 0 Millwall 0
Coventry 2 Ipswich 1
Huddersfield 3 Crewe 1
Hull 0 Burnley 0
Sheffield United 2 Barnsley 1
Watford 1 QPR 2
THIS WEEK’S PREMIER LEAGUE CUP FIXTURES
Friday 29th September
Aston Villa v West Brom
Birmingham v Derby
Bristol City v Stoke
Charlton v Liverpool
Newcastle v Burnley
Sheffield United v Ipswich
Southampton v Watford
Sunderland v Brighton
Monday 2nd October
Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough
Wednesday 4th October
Bournemouth v Norwich
NEXT LEAGUE FIXTURES
Wednesday 4th October
Birmingham v Sheffield United
Friday 6th October
Barnsley v Sheffield Wednesday
Millwall v Crystal Palace
Monday 9th October
Bolton v Nottingham Forest
Burnley v Leeds
Crewe v Hull
Charlton v Watford
Colchester v Cardiff
Ipswich v Bristol City
QPR v Coventry
LEADING GOALSCORERS
6: Dion Pereira (Watford)
5: Ben Folami (Ipswich), Jordan Hallam (Sheffield United), Gerry McDonagh (Nottingham Forest), Jordan Ponticelli (Coventry), Aaron Smith (Nottingham Forest)
4: Victor Adeboyjo (Barnsley), Diego De Girolamo (Bristol City), Michael Folivi (Watford), Freddie Ladapo (Crystal Palace), Aramide Oteh (QPR), Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff), Lewis Reilly (Crewe)
BURNLEY’S GOALSCORERS
1: Dan Agyei, Olatunde Bayode, Harry Flowers, Khius Metz, Jamie Thomas
CURRENT LEAGUE TABLES
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Sheffield Wednesday | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 13 |
| Sheffield United | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 12 |
| Nottingham Forest | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 10 |
| Barnsley | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| Hull City | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 8 |
| Birmingham City | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 7 |
| Crewe Alexandra | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 6 |
| Huddersfield Town | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| Leeds United | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 |
| Burnley | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 4 |
| Bolton Wanderers | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
| Team | pld | w | d | l | f | a | pts |
| Coventry City | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 16 |
| Queens Park Rangers | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 15 |
| Ipswich Town | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 15 |
| Crystal Palace | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 12 |
| Cardiff City | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 12 |
| Colchester United | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 12 |
| Watford | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 9 |
| Millwall | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Charlton Athletic | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 8 |
| Bristol City | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 4 |
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