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Full time at USW Park. A young, yet dominant Cardiff side secure victory in what was an emphatic evening for the hosts. Goals from Kieran Evans and Isaak Davies coming either side of the interval ensure that the Bluebirds run out 2-0 victors on the night. A very promising performance by the young prospects tonight.
Cardiff U23s with 10 welsh players starting today: http://dragonsoccer.co.uk/newsite/in...from=&ucat=10&
Caleb Hughes, Taylor Jones, Siyabonga Ligendza still eligible for under 18's and involved in matchday squad.
2-1 down at half time with Ben Margetson getting our goal.Originally Posted by surge
2-2 in the end: https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...2-cardiff-city
The Bluebirds were rewarded for their attacking efforts two minutes later, with Margetson finding the back of the net. The defender fired home from close range, putting City back on level terms with 26 minutes played.
However, with 74 minutes played, City found their second leveller of the afternoon through Colwill. A low cross from the right side was pulled back towards the edge of the box, finding the midfielder in space. Colwill finished neatly into the bottom left corner, equalising for the Bluebirds.
City's development sides game with QPR today is being shown on the club website, kick off 1 o clock - Phillips, Bagan, Benkovic, Whyte, Patten, Murphy and Evans all in the starting line up.
Still no D'almeida
He must be injured.
Well this is good, picture keeps on freezing, the commentator sounds like he's over in the main stadium and now I'm getting a "content unavailable" message!
Flaming video buffering all the time. Must be lots of people watching.
0-0 at half time. From what I can see from the somewhat erratic coverage, we're better than them at the speculative punt forward, they're better than us at every other facet of the game.
Finally we are seeing come continuity between the development team and the first team
It's as if good quality players at Academy level are having the technique coached out of them - they've started the second half pretty well though.
Reward for a much better second half showing by City - Rubin Colwell puts them 1-0 up.
Only City's second win of the season at under 23 level as they recovered from a truly dismal first half showing to become increasingly dominant during the second period. It was good to see young players like Margetson at the back, Patten and Pritchard in central midfield and Evans out wide improve as the match wore on after difficult starts. We were definitely aided by the introduction of the lively Isaak Davies, who hit the post shortly before the goal, up front and it was another sub, Colwill who got the winner from point blank range after another effort against the woodwork with about five minutes to go. Best City players for me over the ninety minutes were Phillips in goal and Bagan.
Osei Tutu starting for the under 23s today.
Sam Bowen as well - apart from Zimba, none of the young lads who've been in the first team squad lately involved though.
He's come off after 39 minutes 😖
Can't see that being just a run out to bring him back gently, much more likely it's a recurrence or a fresh injury.
0-0 at half time.
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0-0 at half time, then a 4-0 defeat at full time - if Neil Harris does go, I assume Steve Morrison will go with him.
Ben Margetson going on loan to Sutton United, currently 3rd in the National League, for the rest of the season.
Good move for him - a move to the National League worked well for Joel Bagan.
That didn't work out, he's back already. They're flying for now so perhaps it's understandable he couldn't break in there.
https://nonleaguedaily.com/sutton-lo...k-with-cardiff
There's been questions asked about what's happened to Tavio D'Almeida and Taz Mayembe, Neil Harris was asked about them both in his pre game video conference yesterday. Apparently, D'Almeida is injured, but his answer with Mayembe didn't really make much sense. He said a decision had been made among the coaching staff at age group level that Mayembe needed regular games and so he'd been moved into the Under 18s, but the truth is he's barely played for them this season - he was missing for the first couple of months of the season, then came back for a while and then dropped out of the team again just before Christmas. the Under 18s haven't played since 12 December and don't have a game until a week on Saturday, presumably Mayembe will be playing then?
It'll be interesting to see how McCarthy deals with the young players here. He's only got a short contract so needs to hit the ground running but he might feel that giving some pitch time to youngsters and trying to be forward thinking in any way he can might buy off some of the negativity that has come with his appointment.
'I call Josh Yorwerth for the defence' aren't reassuring words for anyone really but I remember him being very complimentary about McCarthy when he joined Ipswich from here. Young players were involved in first team training (unlike here) and Yorwerth said he felt nervous attending those sessions because the standards were set so high. Yorwerth played in their League Cup run (including at Old Trafford) and was sent out on loan to Crawley when the run was over to pick up more first team experience. An article here shows Yorwerth's gratitude to McCarthy and Yates at Crawley (and a barely concealed contempt for Slade)
https://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/spo...-chance-881282
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