Academy (U-18s) Norwich City 0-2 Tottenham Hotspur

[THFC6061]

Norwich City's Under-18s faced Tottenham Hotspur in their first home match for over a month at Colney, but it was the visitors who took the spoils with a 2-0 win.

Norwich started brightly and came very close to opening the scoring in the 7th minute. Tottenham failed to clear the ball with Norwich having several shots blocked in a goal mouth scramble, eventually the ball fell to Ryan Oakley whose shot hit the crossbar.

After 15 minutes good link up play between Patrick Drmola and Josh Dawkin saw Dawkin make his way in to the Spurs' penalty area, but his shot was well saved down low by the visiting 'keeper.

Spurs broke from defence well after 25 minutes, their forward showing good pace to out run David Stephens and Danny Kelly, Remi Matthews came off his line and saved well when one on one.

Ten minutes before the break Spurs had a penalty appeal turned down, again the Spurs centre forward broke at pace and Remi once more came out quickly to close the angle, the Spurs forward tumbled under the challenge and looked for a penalty, the referee waved away the claims.
Just 10 minutes after the break Tottenham took the lead when a cross from the left was converted from close range.

On 60 minutes Theo Jones replaced Patrick Drmola.

Spurs increased their lead just after the hour mark when their centre forward rounded Remi Matthews in goal and squared the ball for his team-mate to finish from close range.

On 70 minutes Jamar Loza replaced Tyree Clarke.

Norwich were finding chances hard to come by, on 72 minutes George Francomb had a shot from range which went just wide of the target.
On 80 minutes Sam Kelly replaced Jason Dobbs.

Tottenham looked comfortable in the remainder of the match and limited Norwich to very few chances and deserved their win.

Final score: Norwich 0 Tottenham 2

Speaking after the game Academy Manager Ricky Martin said: "Given the manner in which we started the game I was disappointed with the end result and the second half performance. We started well and should have taken the lead as we restricted Tottenham to just a couple of chances. We looked off the pace in the second period and did not threaten the Tottenham goal often enough."



Full details of all Tottenham Hotspur's Academy & Reserve matches for 2009-10 available here:

My Football Facts & Stats | Tottenham Hotspur | Reserves & Academy 2009-10

[THFC6061]

Laste Dombaxe made quite an impression on his debut as our Under-18s beat Norwich City 2-0 in the Premier Academy League on Saturday.

The Under-16s midfielder entered the fray as a substitute in the 65th minute and took just five minutes to help set-up the clinching goal for Kudus Oyenuga (pictured).

The hard-earned victory made it five wins and a draw in their last six matches in the PAL.

"It was a great result for us," said coach Alex Inglethorpe. "The pitch had dried out, the surface was lively and we had a young team out, so we were always up against it physically.

"The lads had to dig deep in the first 25 minutes but we got into the game and created a couple of chances, Kudus Oyenuga denied by the goalkeeper.

"I thought we were excellent in the second half. We were inventive, showed great movement and were more fluid in our play.

"We took the lead after 65 minutes, a good combination between Jake Nicholson and Paul McBride with Paul providing a clever assist for Jake to score.

"Laste Dombaxe then came on and he produced an exquisite pass for Harry Kane, Harry went around the keeper and did the right thing, unselfishly squaring it for Kudus to tap in.

"It was Laste's first appearance for the Under-18s and he did well for us."

Spurs U18s:

Archer; Waller-Lassen (Tapping, 80), Durojaiye, Byrne, Pritchard; Parrett, Carroll, Nicholson, Kane, McBride (Dombaxe, 65); Oyenuga.

Unused sub: Day.

[SirBillyNick]

any norfolk residents go?

[BigDub]

always like seeing the youngsters do well. Good info!

[THFC6061]

always like seeing the youngsters do well. Good info!

Although our kids are behind Leicester City in Group B, Spurs actually have the second-best record this season out of all 40 clubs which participate in the Academy Premier League.

And we've got the best goal difference of all the clubs.

[P UNIT 1980]

any norfolk residents go?

Didnt know it was on mate or i would have gone, gutted.