Academy draw

[Steven]

From the OS. :icon_wink

Leicester City U18 5-5 Norwich City U18
Posted on: Sat 08 Mar 2008

Five goals from Billy McKay saved Leicester's blushes as they fought out a 5-5 draw against Norwich City at the Belvoir Drive training ground on Saturday.

The Foxes trailed 5-2 with only ten minutes remaining before a late rally ensured they didn't walk away empty handed.

The home side were reeling as Norwich started brightly and raced to a 2-0 advantage inside twenty minutes.

But the Foxes were back in the game almost instantly - McKay quickest to react to a Ryan Beswick free kick.

McKay was in the thick of the action again five minutes later as he was upended inside the penalty area. The striker picked himself up to make it 2-2 at the break.

Leicester almost took the lead on 50 minutes but Steve Howard's dipping shot was turned away for a corner.

Craig King saw his header saved before goals in the 54th, 60th and 70th minutes looked to have sealed the game for the Canaries.

But City continued to push forward and were awarded a second penalty in the 80th minute when Jorrin John was felled by the Norwich goalkeeper. McKay took the spot kick to secure his hat-trick.

A darting run by King five minutes from time was ended when the make-shift striker picked out McKay who volleyed home to set up a grandstand finish.

The Foxes completed the comeback in the 93rd minute when Luke O'Neill's throw was flicked on by Scott Garner and McKay was in the right place to make it five-a-piece.

City: Pentney, O'Neill, Garner, Rowe-Turner, Cobb (51 Chambers), Tuttle, Beswick, Burns (17 Howard), King, Chamberlain (31 John), McKay

 

[Scarby]

McKay sounds immense in the reserves he cant be worse than Howard! get him in

 

[City Fan]

McKay sounds immense in the reserves he cant be worse than Howard! get him in

It was the U18's that played, not the ressies!

 

[Scarby]

It was the U18's that played, not the ressies!

my bad, if he is scoring 5 goals at any level he has got to be worth a chance

 

[DesertFox]

my bad, if he is scoring 5 goals at any level he has got to be worth a chance

There is a MASSIVE gulf between academy football and even the shite level we are performing at currently.

Remember Chris O'Grady? He was absolutely banging in goals for the youth and reserve teams (inc four in one game for the ressies) as was Louis Dodds. Neither, quite frankly, are good enough for the lower reaches of the Championship.

Hopefully McKay will be good enough to play league football one day. But we will never know until he's ready to make the step up, which I very much doubt is just yet. He at least needs to make an impact in the reserves first.

 

[Trifull]

Palace played 5 of their academy kids against Colchester and won. We don't really know how good ours are until they get a chance to play together in the first team. I agree it's a big step up, but if Palaces' kids are good enough, surely ours are.

 

[homer]

Fact is the lad appears to know where the feckin' goal is, regardless of the level of the opposition - in stark contrast to the collection of cocksuckers we had on display on Saturday

Maybe he should take charge of the next training session and show the feckwits how to hit the feckin' onion bag. Useless shower of cnuts, the lot of 'em

 

[newtonfox]

Fact is the lad appears to know where the feckin' goal is, regardless of the level of the opposition - in stark contrast to the collection of cocksuckers we had on display on Saturday

Maybe he should take charge of the next training session and show the feckwits how to hit the feckin' onion bag. Useless shower of cnuts, the lot of 'em

spot on

 

[Hazzman]

McKay sounds immense in the reserves he cant be worse than Howard! get him in

He lasted at Hinckley long. He was chuffing awful when I seen him at that level. :icon_conf