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By Nathan Youd. Manchester United’s U21s produced a fantastic team display to defeat Tottenham’s U21s 1-0 at The City of Salford Stadium and all but secured their place in the semi-finals of the Elite Group Stage competition. Even a power cut midway through the game couldn’t derail United who did very well to wrestle their [...]

By Nathan Youd. Manchester United’s U21s eased to a 1-0 victory over Southampton U21s on Tuesday night at Moss Lane. The game was much more comfortable for United than the score line suggests as Southampton struggled to trouble Ben Amos all night. United however will be scratching their heads at how they only managed to [...]

By Lee Savery. Goalkeeper Sam Johnstone has joined Walsall on loan for the rest of the season. The Midlands club had Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper Aaron McCarey on loan but he has been recalled. Johnstone is likely to make his début against Hartlepool United on Saturday. The England Under-19 International, who has yet to make a [...]

By Bryan Waters. Manchester United U21s continued their good form with a 2-0 victory away at West Bromwich Albion, thanks to goals from Sean McGinty and substitute John Cofie. The lively Adnan Januzaj burst away from the Albion defence and his low cross found McGinty at the back post, who tucked home for another reason [...]

By Bryan Waters. Manchester United U21s kept their fourth successive clean sheet, but failed to find three points in a frustrating fixture against Wolverhampton Wanderers. The visitors kept things tight at Moss Lane after going down to ten men and spent 80 minutes keeping a strong United side, including Chris Smalling, at bay. Zeli Ismail, [...]

By Bryan Waters. Manchester United U21s played out an uneventful 0-0 draw with West Ham United at Upton Park in what was a solid defensive performance for Warren Joyce’s side. The result means another clean sheet for the United backline following their 1-0 victory over Liverpool on Monday night and moves them onto 8 points [...]

By Nathan Youd. Manchester United U21s showed the same never say die attitude as the first team side to snatch the victory over rivals Liverpool at Langtree Park. Central defender Michele Fornasier pounced with seconds remaining to finally break the resistance of a strong Liverpool side which included first-teamers Jonjo Shelvey, Raheem Sterling and Suso. [...]

By Nathan Youd. Manchester United’s U21s and Arsenal’s U21s shared the spoils in a four-goal thriller at Moss Lane. All the goals were scored in a frantic first half, with Nick Powell, who started up front, and Jesse Lingard netting for United and the impressive Chuba Akpom bagging a brace for the visitors. Despite the [...]

By Bryan Waters. Manchester Senior Cup – Manchester United vs Oldham Athletic. 7pm, Moss Lane, Altrincham. Larnell Cole scored four as Manchester United’s Under 21s cruised through their Manchester Senior Cup tie with Oldham Athletic in a 7-0 demolition at Moss Lane. Warren Joyce’s side dominated possession and started brightly with a shot from defender [...]

By Rob Britton. Manchester United’s U21s lost their first home game in two years in a 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa. Warren Joyce was forced to field a weakened team due to several players being included in the first team’s travelling squad to face Galatasaray in the Champions League. Absentees meant Mats Daehli, Jack Barmby [...]