Posted: 17 Aug 2009 01:58 PM PDT
August 17th 2009, 7.45pm
County Ground, Leyland
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Manchester United Reserves
1-0
Bolton Wanderers Reserves
Macheda 86
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United’s reserves have retained the Lancashire Senior Cup after Kiko Macheda’s winner four minutes from time settled a tense, closely-contested final at the County Ground in Leyland this evening.
With the game seemingly destined for penalties, the Reds’ Italian striker rose highest to meet Magnus Eikrem’s right-wing freekick and crash a great header against the crossbar before reacting quickest and nodding home the rebound in predatory fashion.
UNITED
1. Ben Amos
2. James Chester (c)
3. Joe Dudgeon
4. Matt James
5. Craig Cathcart (12. David Gray 62)
6. Corry Evans
7. Cameron Stewart
8. Magnus Eikrem
9. Federico Macheda
10. Danny Welbeck (15. Sam Hewson 62)
11. Zoran Tošić (16. Joshua King 63)
Subs not used
13. Ron-Robert Zieler
14. Oliver Norwood
Ref:
Lee Metcalfe (Preston)
Posted: 17 Aug 2009 01:18 PM PDT
A first, and admittedly brief, update on the progress of those United youngsters playing their football out on loan this season.
Brief because, as things stand, only six players have been loaned out, and also because only two of those six were in action this past weekend. Danny Drinkwater made his debut for Huddersfield as a 72nd minute substitute in their 3-1 win over Southampton at the Galpharm Stadium, while summer signing Mame Biram Diouf – who is staying at Molde FK in Norway on loan until January – was unable to prevent his side losing 2-1 away to Viking Stavanger and missing out on the chance to close the gap on Tippeligaen leaders Rosenborg.
As for the other four, Tom Heaton was an unused substitute for QPR in their draw against Plymouth Argyle at Home Park, while Danny Simpson’s loan move was seemingly finalised too late for him to be included in the squad for Newcastle’s impressive 3-0 home win against Reading. Rodrigo Possebon was a surprising omission from the Sporting Braga squad for their season opening 1-0 win over Academica Coimbra after featuring regularly in the side during pre-season, while Adem Ljajić’s Partizan Belgrade don’t get their defence of the Serbian Superliga title underway until next weekend.
Cleverley makes Hornets switch
Posted: 17 Aug 2009 12:59 PM PDT
United midfielder Tom Cleverley has joined the recent loan exodus from Old Trafford and signed for Championship side Watford until January, following Tom Heaton, Danny Simpson and Danny Drinkwater out of the door in recent days.
20 last week, Cleverley has made remarkable progress in the last couple of years. After signing trainee forms in 2005, injuries seriously hampered his first two seasons and limited him to just 25 appearances for the Under-18s in that time. At this point in 2007, there were major doubts over whether the versatile youngster had an immediate future with the club, let alone a long-term one.
United’s coaches clearly saw something there with Tom and kept faith, and 07/08 was a real breakthrough season. Previously most often used at full-back, a regular move into midfield provided a better stage on which to display his ability and he finished the season as one of the three nominees for Reserve Player of the Year, only narrowly losing out to Richard Eckersley.
An impressive (and prolific) start to pre-season with the second string last year prompted Sir Alex to summon Cleverley to South Africa for the latter stages of United’s tour of South Africa, an opportunity that the youngster grasped emphatically with a goalscoring first team debut against Kaizer Chiefs in Pretoria. With that form being carried into the reserves season, Leicester came calling in January, taking Tom on loan until the end of the season. Although that campaign was to ultimately be ended prematurely by a shoulder injury, he had already made a big impression as part of the Foxes’ league-winning side, appearing in 15 games and scoring twice.
The Basingstoke-born starlet has continued to add to his burgeoning reputation this pre-season, with another first-team goal in the friendly against Valencia (this time in front of the Stretford End) being followed by a brace on debut for England U20s against Montenegro last week. Sir Alex revealed after that Valencia game that he’d recieved several enquiries about the 20 year-old’s availability on loan, and Watford boss Malky Mackay has won the race to secure Cleverley’s services, initially until January. Tom will wear the number 20 for the Hornets, and will team up with England U20 colleague Ross Jenkins at Vicarage Road.
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