Moffatt off to Alty

United defender Scott Moffatt has joined Blue Square Premier side (and United Reserves’ landlords) Altrincham on a one-month loan deal.

Tottenham 1 United 3: U18s bounce back in style to stun Spurs

August 29th 2009, 11am
Spurs Lodge, Chigwell

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Tottenham Hotspur U18s	1-3	Manchester United U18s

Oyenuga 48	-	Cofie 3
-	-	Brady 11
-	-	King 28

 
United’s U18 side produced the perfect response to last week’s opening day defeat with an impressive dismantling of Tottenham at Spurs Lodge this morning. The damage was done in a scintillating first half-hour as the Reds raced into a 3-0 lead with goals from John Cofie, Robbie Brady and Joshua King, and while Spurs pulled a goal back early in the second half and made much more of a fight of it, United weathered the storm and ultimately ran out comfortable winners.

United 5 Bury 0: Shakers shaken as Reds fire five

August 27th 2009, 7pm
Moss Lane, Altrincham

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Manchester United Reserves	5-0	Bury Reserves

Hewson 5	-	-
Macheda 31 (pen), 50	-	-
Stewart 36	-	-
Moffatt 70	-	-

 
United made an emphatic start to their bid to win the Manchester Senior Cup for a third consecutive year this evening, Bury the unfortunate side on the receiving end of a five-star showing from Ole Solskjaer’s Reserves at Moss Lane.

Sam Hewson picked up where he left off against Bolton on Monday night and handed the Reds a fifth-minute lead. Bury’s backline could have been forgiven at that point for thinking they were in for a long night, and so it proved as Kiko Macheda (twice), Cameron Stewart and Scott Moffatt all found the net and established a scoreline that barely reflected United’s dominance over the ninety minutes.

Bolton 1 United 3: Reserves start season in style as Bolton are beaten again

August 24th 2009, 7pm
County Ground, Leyland

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Bolton Wanderers Reserves	1-3	Manchester United Reserves

O’Halloran 10	-	Cathcart 3
-	-	Tošić 45
-	-	Hewson 82

 
United’s reserves got their Barclays Premier Reserve League North campaign off to winning start this evening with an ultimately convincing 3-1 victory over Bolton Wanderers. Returning to the County Ground in Leyland, scene of last week’s Lancashire Senior Cup Final triumph against the same opposition, a much more open and exciting match than that encounter saw the Reds seize control of the game in the second half after a much more even first 45 minutes that had seen Craig Cathcart and Wanderers’ Michael O’Halloran trade early goals and Zoran Tošić hand Ole Solskjaer’s side a slightly fortuitous lead on the stroke of half-time.

The second half turned into something of a duel between a much more dominant United and Robert Lainton in the Bolton goal, with numerous opportunities to kill off the match going begging before Sam Hewson finally secured all three points and an opening day win with a late header.

United 1 Southampton 3: Ruthless Saints punish new-look Reds for rookie mistakes

August 22nd 2009, 11am
Trafford Training Centre, Carrington

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Manchester United U18s	1-3	Southampton U18s

Tunnicliffe 17	-	Keegan 49
-	-	Preen 52 (pen)
-	-	McNish 80

 
United’s new-look Under-18 side were given a harsh lesson in the realities of academy league football this morning after dominating long spells of their opening day clash with Southampton and still conspiring to fall to a 3-1 defeat.

With Carrington bathed in sunshine, things looked bright for a team containing seven new scholars when they took an early lead through a superbly-crafted goal from Ryan Tunnicliffe, yet a disastrous start to the second half saw the pendulum swing firmly in the Saints’ direction, as costly defensive mistakes handed goals to Jordan Keegan and – from the penalty spot – Garyn Preen.

The Reds poured forward in search of an equaliser but the visitors’ defence held firm and Callum McNish produced the goal of the game on the counter attack to clinch all three points for the boys from the South Coast.

United 1 Bolton 0: More silverware for Solskjaer thanks to late Macheda winner

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 soared to meet Magnus Eikrem’s right-wing freekick and crash a great header against the crossbar before reacting quickest to nod home the rebound in predatory fashion, clinching an 11th LSC triumph in the club’s history.

Loan Update – 15-17 August

 
A first, and admittedly brief, update on the progress of those United youngsters playing their football out on loan this season.

Cleverley makes Hornets switch

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.

Heaton joins the Hoops

Goalkeeper Tom Heaton is the latest United youngster to leave the club on loan this summer, having put pen to paper on a three-month loan deal with Queens Park Rangers of the Championship.

United 4 Huddersfield 1: U18s complete pre-season prep with resounding win

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August 15th 2009, 11am
Trafford Training Centre, Carrington

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Manchester United U18s	4-1	Huddersfield Town U18s

Morrison 1, 29 (pen)	-	???? 67
King 4, 42 (pen)	-	-

 
United’s U18s finished their pre-season campaign with a very comfortable 4-1 victory over Huddersfield Town at Carrington this morning.