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U18's vs. Newcastle (A) Sat 28th April - Match Report


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Boro – Coddington, Rivers, Sirrell ©, Galpin, Okosieme, Weledji, Bennett, Waters (Boagey), Kneeshaw (Garrity), Jones (Roberts), Warnett.

Unused – Bland

 

Newcastle - Jonathan Mitchell, Macauley Booth, Jermaine Udumaga, Will Turton, Lee Desmond, Esteban Cardona Lopez (Greg Olley 60), Dennis Knight, Rolando Aarons, Jonathan Quinn (Tom Heardman 65), JJ Hooper

 

Unused - Freddie Woodman, Ryan McKinnon

 

Boro started quickly, with Jimmy Warnett cutting in off the left wing and driving a low shot towards Mitchell’s near post, the young goal keeper did well to get down and tip it to safety. Next to come close was Andre Bennett, he exchanged passes with Wilson Kneeshaw who crossed it into the box. Bennett rose well but couldn’t direct his header goal ward.

 

Kneeshaw was next, he was found wide left by Jordan Jones, but as he cut inside he found his shot blocked and the follow up by Bennett was hit straight at the goalkeeper.

 

Matty Waters seemed to go over and damage his knee in a nothing tackle and he was replaced by Zak Boagey.

 

Boro Sub – Waters off, Boagey on.

 

The substitution seemed to unsettle the away side, and Newcastle has a spell of possession. But neither side really created much more and the referee signalled half time.

 

HALF TIME – Newcastle 0 Middlesbrough 0

 

Newcastle came out the second half flying, Luke Coddington in the Boro goal was forced into a smart save when he tipped over a Newcastle free kick. Minutes later the Boro keeper was called into action again, tipping over a drive from the impressive JJ Hooper.

Boro Sub – Jones off, Roberts on.

 

Michael Roberts who is due to be released after 2 years at Middlesbrough came on at right back and Boro reverted to a flat back four with Galpin left back and Sirrell and Rivers moving into midfield.

 

Boro were resorting to counter attacking, and on one of these breaks the ball was played through to Kneeshaw who broke clear, with only the goal keeper to beat, he jinked inside and was crudely brought down. The referee chose to book Mitchell rather than send him off for denying a clear goal scoring opportunity. The resulting free kick was wasted though.

 

Boro Sub – Kneeshaw off, Garrity on.

 

Young Adam Garrity came on up front and immediately offered a outlet, holding the ball up and laying it off, winning balls in the air and generally causing the defenders issues.

 

He held the ball up for an attack that saw Robert’s bomb down the right, the attack looked to have been smothered but the ball found the right back on the right hand edge of the box, and he looked up and drifted a superb lob into the top corner of the net with the keeper stranded. 1-0 Boro! In the last few minutes of his Boro career Roberts showed a piece of class and brilliance. Such a well deserved goal.

 

GOAL BORO – Roberts

 

Up the other end it was nearly 1-1, JJ Hooper cut inside onto his right foot and unleashed a thunderous strike that saw Coddington go full length to his left, he seemed to get finger tips onto it and that pushed it onto the post and straight into the path of a Boro break. Warnett received the ball on the left beat his man and slid the ball past the advancing keeper to double the lead.

 

GOAL BORO – Warnett

 

It could have been 3 when Warnett broke with Garrity right and Sirrell left he laid the ball on and Sirrell miss controlled it. But the job was done and Boro had done the U18 double over their North East rivals.

 

Full time – Newcastle 0 Middlesbrough 2

 

 

Man of the Match.

Michael Roberts

Yes he came on as a sub, yes he only played 30 minutes but his goal against the run of play changed the game. A superb lofted goal into the top corner left the goal keeper with no chance. And in his last game as well! Like Lewis Galpin Roberts has not been offered a 3rd year scholarship and will find himself part of what will be a huge group of youngsters country wide fighting to get another chance at making a career of the game. Good luck to Roberts and Galpin.

 

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Great report mate honest as usual but as a staunch toon fan I was rather pleased a lot of young lads playing but so did boro thought the second half came alive and was rather pleased with the big lads play as you say did all what a target man is asked of

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