Youth, Reserves and Ladies 2014-15

[not3bad]

I'd rather have the kids out on loan getting experience.

[dcdavecollett]

Good game at Chezza last night.

Villa played virtually all the football but Chesterfield ended up with three galoots up front and we got drawn into a long-ball game.

Best players were Hepburn-Murphy who reminded me of Dazzler and scored a fine goal, Suliman who looked good in midfield and at the back before limping off near the end. Taylor had a good first hour and had the beating of his full-back. The centre-half looked decent, too.

An unlucky defeat rather than a humiliation, I feel.

Speaking as one of the few Villa loyalists who turned up to watch.*

* How's that for the 'better fan than you' stakes?

[PeterWithesShin]

Brighton U21 2-0 Villa U21 - FT: Villa U21s kicked off 2015 with a disappointing defeat to Brighton at the Amex Stadium.
Goals from Jimmy Muitt and Charlie Harris secured the points for the Seagulls, who prior to kick-off were bottom of the Barclays U21 Premier League Division Two.
It was a frustrating night for Gordon Cowans' team. Brighton controlled the play for long periods and restricted the claret and blues to half chances.

[pooligan]

Looks like the U21 team are playing the same way as the first team now.In last nights match against bottom of the league Brighton,we failed to muster a worthwhile shot on goal and failed to score yet again.

[Hoppo]

I've just seen Jordan Graham has signed for Wolves, anyone know what happened to this kid?

[Dave Cooper please]

I've just seen Jordan Graham has signed for Wolves, anyone know what happened to this kid?

He signed for Wolves - duh!

[pooligan]

Was a star of the Next Gen team that won the trophy and was a regular in the U21 team last season.Was pretty impressive whenever i saw him play.Like Albrighton he is a winger and Lambert does not seem to like wingers so maybe that is the reason we have let him go.

[dcdavecollett]

He had a bad injury before the NextGen finals that seemed to halt his progress.

Before that, he'd looked. a really promising player

[fredm]

But hasn't appeared in the Wolves first team yet, has he?

[adrenachrome]

But hasn't appeared in the Wolves first team yet, has he?

No. He was injured for the duration of the short loan period.

According to Wiki he only made 2 appearances for Ipswich and 1 for Bradford in previous loans.

[Clampy]

Grealish is playing for the U21's tonight. He would have been a much better option than Richardson on Saturday.

[The Left Side]

Grealish is playing for the U21's tonight. He would have been a much better option than Richardson on Saturday.

He scored for us too, but we are losing 2-1 now. Lambert Out!

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Grealish is playing for the U21's tonight. He would have been a much better option than Richardson on Saturday.

He scored for us too, but we are losing 2-1 now. Lambert Out!

2-2 Sellars

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

3-2 down with a couple of minutes to go!!

[adrenachrome]

Pravda

Blackburn U21 3-2 Villa U21: Young lions bow out of Premier League Cup

Blackburn edge entertaining clash in Leigh.

Villa bowed out of the Premier League Cup despite coming from behind twice in an entertaining Cup contest at Leigh Sports Village.

Bradley Bauress' tap in four minutes from time sealed progression into the quarter-finals after Jack Grealish and Jerell Sellars had twice levelled for the claret and blues.

Gordon Cowans' youngsters were indebted to goalkeeper Craig Hill who produced a superb reaction save from David Carson's close range effort which looked destined to ripple the back of the net.

The home side came out of the traps early with Carson and forward Jordan Slew linking up well.

Just shy of half an hour, Slew had a great opportunity to open the scoring but he headed a Tommy Spur cross wide.

Callum Robinson unnerved Blackburn's backline all evening and looked a threat upfront for the visitors and his persistence won set pieces.

One corner fell to skipper Kevin Toner but he could only shoot high over the crossbar.

Villa almost took a surprise lead on 38 minutes when Rovers defender Anthony O'Connor almost diverted Riccardo Calder's cross into his own net.

Blackburn took the lead on the stroke of half-time when Villa only partially cleared a Spurr cross and Connor Mohoney reacted quickest to give Rovers the lead.

Whatever Cowans said at half-time proved dividends as his side were level after 46 minutes.

Grealish's effort from the edge of the area deflected off a blue and white shirt past David Raya.

It was then Blackburn's turn to react and they did so accordingly - Dean Rittenberg finishing well following a fine run and pass from John O'Sullivan to restore their lead on 57 minutes.

Sellars came on in place of Graham Burke and levelled for Villa within a minute.

Under pressure from Grealish, goalkeeper David Raya tried to dribble his way out of trouble but the ball fell to the substitute who fired home.

Robinson continued to attack and was unlucky to see two efforts - one from a free-kick and another from close range saved.

But - with Villa looking the more likely to steal victory and a last eight meeting with Newcastle - Rovers took the lead for the third and final time through Bauress' strike after Hill did well to keep out Rittenberg's header.

Villa are back in action on Friday evening where they take on Stoke City in Macclesfield.

BLACKBURN: Raya, Nyambe, O'Connor, O'Connell, Spurr, Carson, O'Sullivan, Bauress, Mahoney, Rittenberg, Slew (Preston 66). Unused subs: Crump, Doyle, Lavelle, Wall.

VILLA: Hill, Leggett, Wildin, Cowans, Lewis, Toner (C), Abdo (O'Brien 87), Calder, Robinson, Burke (Sellars 65), Grealish. Unused subs: Bannister, Crooks, Webb.