Crowley's goal last night. Nice. Love this kid.

i like this new u23 format. based on how we look, no player on the field is above this level. even the jeff who is dribbling around liverpool for fun is failing when he gets to the final 1/3. this is a good level for them. you can see why akpom didn't score much on loan.

9 days later

Decent goal from Ainsley Maitland-Niles for the England U20s the other day.

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What's up with Maitland-Niles, speaking of? Why wasn't he promoted to the first team this season?

I saw something the other day, can't remember what, that made me think he's getting converted into a full-back. I don't really know whether this is a good move for him, or us, but my feeling is that it's easier to get into our squad in that area rather than as a forward/winger/midfielder.

7 days later

PSG U19 vs Arsenal U19 is live on BT Sports. 1700 Kick-off. Hoping to get home in time to watch it, but there should be a lot of streams around for it as well. I'll post one here for anyone that's interested.

Let me know how Ikone does.

Now Malen misses a sitter after a good cut back from Willock.

Their lads seem stronger, more athletic and, worst of all, more skillful than ours.

Yup, a clear level above. Bielik the exception.

Willock and Nelson are better than anything they have in my opinion. Unfortunately our centre midfielders aren't quite up to it and so there's no platform to build from.

Nketiah should have won the game but his finish was really tame. Decent point for the kids. Home support counts for a lot at this level.

Fantastic draw thanks to mental strength.

The PSG players looked much more developed at this level physically but technically I don't think we are far off.

I don't know how you could say that when we couldn't get the ball off them and struggled to hold onto the ball for any extended period.

Ricky1985 wrote:

Willock and Nelson are better than anything they have in my opinion. Unfortunately our centre midfielders aren't quite up to it and so there's no platform to build from.

i watched this game from start to finish and there is a reason they were getting a talking too from freddy. they were shit.

Who, Willock and Nelson or the central midfielders?