Academy vs Sheffield Wednesday (A)

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1. Conor Devlin
2. Scott Moffatt
3. Joe Dudgeon
4. Scott Wootton
5. Oliver Gill
6. Oliver Norwood
7. Chris Curran
8. Ryan Tunnicliffe
9. Cameron Stewart
10. Nicky Ajose
11. Daniel Galbraith (c)

12. Reece Brown
14. Ravel Morrison

1-0 up already, via Scott Moffatt of all people on 12 minutes - one-two with Curran and his attempted low cross drifted in off the far post.

Norwood and Stewart have both hit the woodwork already too.
 
2-0 after 22 minutes, Nicky Ajose with the finish after great work from Stewart down the left and a clever dummy from Tunnicliffe.
 
Some awesome weather there now :D

Norwood hits the underside of the bar from 30 yards or so, very unlucky.
 
Brown on for Moffatt at half-time.

Weather a bit more normal thankfully. Wind still extremely strong though and in Wednesday's favour this half.
 
Morrison on for Galbraith after 57.

Looks like a beautiful sunny spring morning there now, this country eh.
 
2-2, some nice football from Wednesday although they cut through us a bit too easily.

Just a minute later Morrison puts a one-on-one inches past the post.
 
Finishes 2-2. Bit disappointing after how dominant we were in the first half but credit to Wednesday, they got themselves back into it and probably shaded the second half.
 
Give us one your famous "So Called" short reports please..
 
Will try and actually make it short...

- Norwood hit the bar in the first five seconds with one of his trademark 'straight from kick-off' efforts, keeper got a vital touch
- Stewart cracked a shot against the post after 9 minutes or so after a short corner involving Norwood and Galbraith
- United took the lead after 12 mins, Moffatt played a one-two with Curran, looked to put across a low centre for the onrushing Norwood but the cross drifted in off the far post without anyone getting a touch, his first goal for the academy.
- Ten minutes later, Stewart beat his man down the left, cut the ball back, Tunnicliffe cleverly let it run which took their centre-half out of the game and Ajose had an easy finish
- Just before the half-hour, corner for them bobbled around a bit and their skipper managed to just scramble it across the line, back to 2-1.
- 36 mins, their turn to hit the woodwork after a Wootton mistake left us exposed
- Ajose toe-poked a tricky chance inches wide moments later, and then on the stroke of half-time Norwood curled a thirty-yarder against the bar - seemed to bounce down on the line, hard to tell from the angles offered by MUTV and no appeals for a goal from anyone so assume it didn't go over the line.

- Wednesday had the wind at their backs in the second half, much more even game, them maybe shading it.
- Nice move from them brought an equaliser, several passes strung together, Gill drawn out from the back and left stranded, Dudgeon got a great tackle in as one of their players looked set to score but unfortunately it fell to another unmarked SW player who was left with a simple finish.
- Almost immediately from the kick-off Morrison was put clean through but a defender just got back at him enough to put him off slightly and he put his finish just past the post.

Not a lot else to say, the second half was a much less eventful one than the first, which was played at a hectic pace, 16 shots on goal in total, and in at times quite horrendous conditions, so I guess that took it out of both sides.
 
Noticed Nick Barmby in the crowd. Guess his son was playing for the U16s.
 
We should have won this game by 3-4 goals - but once we gave away that sloppy 1-2 goal they fought back brilliantly.

The first 27-28 minutes probably some of the best football we have played all season !

Our best player imo was Stewart who was lively thoughout. Norwood did well in midfield and was unlucky not to score at least once.
 
How was Devlin today?

Really interested in his progress for some reason, seems like recently he's lost form.
 
Didn't have a great deal to do really. No chance with the second goal, think it'd be hard to apportion blame to him for the first. Couple of routine saves, decent distribution, nothing really to make any judgements on.
 
Will try and actually make it short...

- Norwood hit the bar in the first five seconds with one of his trademark 'straight from kick-off' efforts, keeper got a vital touch
- Stewart cracked a shot against the post after 9 minutes or so after a short corner involving Norwood and Galbraith
- United took the lead after 12 mins, Moffatt played a one-two with Curran, looked to put across a low centre for the onrushing Norwood but the cross drifted in off the far post without anyone getting a touch, his first goal for the academy.
- Ten minutes later, Stewart beat his man down the left, cut the ball back, Tunnicliffe cleverly let it run which took their centre-half out of the game and Ajose had an easy finish
- Just before the half-hour, corner for them bobbled around a bit and their skipper managed to just scramble it across the line, back to 2-1.
- 36 mins, their turn to hit the woodwork after a Wootton mistake left us exposed
- Ajose toe-poked a tricky chance inches wide moments later, and then on the stroke of half-time Norwood curled a thirty-yarder against the bar - seemed to bounce down on the line, hard to tell from the angles offered by MUTV and no appeals for a goal from anyone so assume it didn't go over the line.

- Wednesday had the wind at their backs in the second half, much more even game, them maybe shading it.
- Nice move from them brought an equaliser, several passes strung together, Gill drawn out from the back and left stranded, Dudgeon got a great tackle in as one of their players looked set to score but unfortunately it fell to another unmarked SW player who was left with a simple finish.
- Almost immediately from the kick-off Morrison was put clean through but a defender just got back at him enough to put him off slightly and he put his finish just past the post.

Not a lot else to say, the second half was a much less eventful one than the first, which was played at a hectic pace, 16 shots on goal in total, and in at times quite horrendous conditions, so I guess that took it out of both sides.

Thanks..