Villa Reserves and Academy 2024/25 Season

[SaddVillan]

Great team performance.
Fantastic work rate by every one of the kids.
They deserved the extra point

[AlexAlexCropley]

Yay,take that John Mcginley

[SaddVillan]

Oliwier Zych

9 saves in normal time.
2 in the shootout

[VillaTim]

Go on me babbies , great team effort .

Loved it when Zyech took the ball out the air in stoppage time then went down in a heap . Who's he been watching closely 

[Somniloquism]

Through to round 2

5 points enough to qualify then?

[cdbearsfan]

Through to round 2

Not sure about that. I think if we lose to Barrow in ninety minutes and Fleetwood beat Bolton on penalties we would go out.

Though I still don't like Premier League clubs being in this competition anyway. 🙂

[charlatan]

Ah, true...

[Brend'Watkins]

Through to round 2

Not sure about that. I think if we lose to Barrow in ninety minutes and Fleetwood beat Bolton on penalties we would go out.

Though I still don't like Premier League clubs being in this competition anyway. 🙂

Premier clubs don’t have their proper badge on the Beeb’s score updates. I guess that it’s to show it’s not the first team but I don’t really know. Looking at the stats it looks like our boys were under the cosh somewhat so to win it on pens is a surprise.

[VillaTim]

Yeah they were defending most of the game but were very well organised and held their nerve and looked fast and dangerous on the odd counter .

[SaddVillan]

Through to round 2

Not sure about that. I think if we lose to Barrow in ninety minutes and Fleetwood beat Bolton on penalties we would go out.

Though I still don't like Premier League clubs being in this competition anyway. 🙂

From The Villa Academy Twatter page
@academyavfc

Tonight’s 2 pointer means a point from our final group game at Barrow would secure progress to the knockout stages. The only scenario in which we may not progress is if Fleetwood beat Bolton in a bonus point shootout.

We face Barrow on Tuesday November 12th, kick off 7:00pm.

[Percy McCarthy]

Fantastic effort from the lads. I watched from the kick off, but was increasingly emotionally invested as the game went on, so brilliant was the rearguard action. I was gutted when I had to leave for work and couldn’t get the game on my phone.

All’s well that ends well.

[Percy McCarthy]

The ages of our players tonight:

Zych 20
Simpson 18
Amundsen 19
Routh 16
Fortes 16
Burrowes 16
Borland 17
Barnes 19
Jenner 16
Lynskey 16
Mulley 17
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Lewis 18
Timson 18
Edwards 19
Carroll 17
Brannigan 17
Bloomfield 16
Quinn 17

[OCD]

Apparently we’re playing a behind closed doors friendly against Sheffield Wednesday in the coming week.

[Gareth]

The ages of our players tonight:

Zych 20
Simpson 18
Amundsen 19
Routh 16
Fortes 16
Burrowes 16
Borland 17
Barnes 19
Jenner 16
Lynskey 16
Mulley 17
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Lewis 18
Timson 18
Edwards 19
Carroll 17
Brannigan 17
Bloomfield 16
Quinn 17

Seriously impressive, Bolton fans are getting annoyed that they couldn’t beat our u21’s….thats u18’s in the main & probs not our best u18 line up if internationals were available

[Risso]

Apparently we’re playing a behind closed doors friendly against Sheffield Wednesday in the coming week.

Would that be to give Mings and Kamara another run out do you think?