Match Report
10 points and 4 places separated them: Manchester City U18 1st with 18, Liverpool U18 5th with 8. Recent form told a different story for Liverpool U18: only 13th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 5th. Against a league average of 2.39 goals per team per game, Manchester City U18 ran at 4.33 scored and 1.33 conceded, Liverpool U18 at 2.8 and 2.2.
Liverpool U18 arrived off three straight defeats.
GioScore's database holds 10 meetings between the two: 8 for Manchester City U18, 2 for Liverpool U18 and 0 drawn, at 3.1 goals per meeting. Only 40% of these meetings ended in a home win. The fixture leans high-scoring: 70% of meetings brought at least three goals. The last five meetings averaged 4 goals, well above the all-time 3.1.
The referee was A. Royston, with 3 matches in our records. Manchester City U18 led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 2-1 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Manchester City U18: Teddie Lamb (18'), Archie Thornton (48') · Liverpool U18: Finn Inglethorpe (89')