Saturday 10th April 2010

FA PREMIER ACADEMY LEAGUE

 

Manchester City 3 Bolton Wanderers 0

 

Benali 7 mins,

Elabdellaoui (2)33 mins & 89mins

 

 

Bolton started the game the lively of the two sides and their forwards wasted a couple of good opportunities, but an impressive City soon got into their stride and opened the scoring on 7 minutes.Tom Smith burst from his own half traded passes with Emerick Hippias, who was in for the Sweden bound John Guidetti, Smith found himself free on the left hand side off the box and he simply crossed the ball along the ground to the oncoming Ahmad Benali, to finish from close range

 

Citys next attack involved some fine play between Spanish kid Olle and Omar Elabdellaoui, which saw the keeper save Omars shot with his legs

 

ElAbdellaoui doubled Citys advantage on 33 mins finishing a move that started with Freddie Veseli moving the ball out of his own penalty box and after a succession of passes Hippias and Benali combined again for Omar to score

French lad Hippias then turned a shot just wide of the post as City finished the half strongly

 

James Wood, making a rare appearance between the posts, was called into action for the first time on 58 minutes when he tipped a shot from Boltons number 8 onto the bar. Minutes later the vistors were denied a stone wall penalty when Wood collided with a Bolton forward

 

In the dying minutes of the game Veseli's fiercely struck volley was amazingly kept out by the keeper and when City broke away from a Bolton free kick it was three on one, Smith found substitute Harry Bunn out on the right and he simply crossed for Elabdellaoui to tap in from close range and complete a fine performance for City

 

 

 

 

 

Team:

Wood, Mitchell, Smith, Veseli, Wabara, Kapsalopodas (Grandison 89min), Paris (Bunn 65min), Benali, Hippias,Elabdellaoui, Olle (Robinson 78min)

Subs: Halsall (GK), T Skosgrud

 

No game for the U16's today, as half the squad were out in Abu Dhabi and the younger members were competing in the Nike Cup at Warwick University, where they lost in the semi final to Newcastle 0-1.

The final being Newcastle v Chelsea, who City beat 3-0 in the earlier stages of the competition