Reply With QuoteLost 2 - 1. (Barton pelanty).Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
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I am surprised that Manny Barton is on that list. He came on as a substitute in last nights U21 game and scored.
Lost 2 - 1. (Barton pelanty).
Luke Armstrong signs contract extension to summer 2028.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...stay-bluebirds
He’s not looking to get on the grass, he wants to be back in the building
Another Friday night under 21 game this week, home to QPR at Leckwith, kick off 7 o clock - I’m sure that, as usual, it will be streamed.
U21 now v QPR live YouTube.
Troy Perrett penalty puts City 1-0 up.
Nyakuhwa makes it 2-0. It’s been a pretty even game, but we’ve just had a ten minute purple patch when we could have scored three or four.
3-0, Luke Pearce runs thirty yards to Rob the keeper and grab himself a deserved goal.
Finished 3-1, very enjoyable performance by City.
Good all round performance. Great pressing especially for the 3rd goal.
TOBW and BlueToujours have summed it up well there. A good performance from City and a very enjoyable game.
We got into so many good positions in the second half we should've scored more. Nyakuhwa was the guiltiest for poor balls in but it was good to see him playing with some swagger again. Luey Giles played well, I thought, but Luke Pearce stood out with a very energetic and combative performance. The win just about keeps us in with a chance of progressing in the PL Cup.
It's suddenly got a bit nippy out, by the way. I misjudged it tonight by rocking up in shorts and a Velikonja t-shirt but I won't be making that mistake tomorrow.
Under 18s playing their last game before Christmas today against Brentford at Leckwith, kick off 11.30.
3 - 1 win.
The under-21s are back in action tomorrow night (Tuesday) against Watford at Leckwith Stadium, 7.00 kick off.
No Mafico, Giles, Spiers or Perrett (he's third top scorer in the league for now) but there should be enough strength in depth to be competitive for the rest of the season.
Interesting to see if we give Michael Reindorf a run-out tomorrow and if we give Axel Donczew more game time at that level as the season goes on.
Wonder why it's an evening kick off? Is it another one of those Premier league Cup games?
I was wondering when we were going to play in the FA Youth Cup this season as I'd seen nothing about it up to now. I looked on this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–26_FA_Youth_Cup
to try and find out and was beginning to think there'd been another "auditor's" cock up and we'd not been entered into the competition until I looked at the First Round and saw we lost 1-0 at home to Cheltenham on the day after I'd been admitted to hospital, so that explains why I'd not heard anything about it. i daresay it was a result that City must have been keen to keep quiet about because it's so embarrassing for a club that is having so many complimentary things said about it's youth development currently.
I'm not sure there's a conspiracy theory about the club keeping it quiet. It was the night of the Wrexham cup-tie so it got overshadowed by that.
I saw the first half and posted about it on here. Cheltenham had an interesting tactic where they tried to stop us playing out down the wings and when it came inside they jumped on Hayden Allmark who couldn't cope with it. One time, Rob Tankiewicz (making his first appearance of the season at u-18 level) had to come racing back to try and bail him out but went down in a collision and broke his collar bone.
It was a poor performance from what I saw, we couldn't get anything going at all. I did say at the time that it seemed a bit hard on the lads to get a home tie then play it while the first team were on national television. Only 132 turned up to watch and a majority of them seemed to be from Cheltenham.
Will be very interesting to see the team
Mafico, Giles, Spiers, Perrett and Nyakuhwa now all gone. I don't see the point persisting with Reindorf.
Strong enough team but no Reindorf. No Donczew either but it's probably past his bedtime to be fair.
Duw, this is a poor game.
Watford get a deserved lead on the basis that they’ve been slightly less bad than us. Just like the seniors on Saturday, City’s under 21s have seemingly forgotten how to pass the ball accurately.
It's not the best back 4 for passing out from the back and we're getting in trouble when we try so Griffiths is having to kick it long more often than not. We've got in a couple of decent positions and Pearce is looking lively again but it's not great, I agree.
Reindorf is here watching by the way. He seems to be limping which might explain why he dropped out of the picture so suddenly at Newport.
3 subs seems strange
2-0 to Watford now.
Superb finish from over twenty yards by Trey George makes it 1-2.
Bizarre finish. 3-1 down in the 89th minute then Dan Ola finishes our best move of the night to make it 3-2. Seconds later, the ball breaks to Luke Pearce who holds it up on the by-line till Ola gets into the box and rolls it to him but Ola's shot is blocked and Watford break away and score.
Barton then thought he'd won a penalty but the ref didn't give it and Watford broke away again and made it 5-2 when it could've been 3-3 a couple of minutes earlier.
Watford deserved the win but we showed plenty of spirit and played better football with an attacking 4-4-2 set up although it left the back four completely exposed at times.
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