Academy/U18s Milk Cup Schedule Announced

[gooDevil]

Manchester United will travel to Northern Ireland again at the end of July to participate in the Milk Cup.


The prestigious youth tournament has become a permanent fixture in the calendar for the Reds with the club winning the Premier Section in 2008 and 2009.

"It will be quite a young team in the Milk Cup this year as there will only be about two or three second-year scholars going," Academy head coach Paul McGuinness told ManUtd.com.

"It’s a very young team with a number of schoolboys so it will be interesting."

United meet Co Antrim, Strikers FC South Coast and Tus Altenberge at three different venues next month.

More: 2012/2013 fixtures & results | Pick of the 2012 Milk Cup goals


Monday 29 July:
v Co Antrim (N.Ireland)
20:00 kick-off
Showgrounds, Ballymena
Tuesday 30 July:
v Strikers FC South Coast (Australia)
20:00 kick-off
Showgrounds, Coleraine
Wednesday 31 July:
v TuS Altenberge (Germany)
19:00 kick-off
Scroggy Road, Limavady

 

[KM]

Surprised that no squad has been declared so far.

What do we expect the squad to be?

 

[backofthenet]

Surprised that no squad has been declared so far.

What do we expect the squad to be?

Young!

 

[jb8521]

Were bringing Oliver McBurnie a young striker from Bradford due to injuries to a couple of our attacking players. Ruairi Croskery, Callum Nicholas, Jordan Thompson and Charlie Scott are the only ones I've heard are going so far

 

[Danish Wizard]

The squad
Joel Castro Pereira, Kieran O'Hara, Axel Tuanzebe, Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, Scott McTominay, Jordan Thompson, Joe Riley, Matthew Willock, Demetri Mitchell, Ruari Croskery, Callum Nicholas, Oliver Rathbone, Marcus Rashford, Charlie Scott, Andreas Pereira, Vashiko Dick, Oliver McBurnie.

 

[jb8521]

Tyler Reid who used to play for Arsenal is in the squad aswell

 

[humdinger]

The squad
Joel Castro Pereira, Kieran O'Hara, Axel Tuanzebe, Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, Scott McTominay, Jordan Thompson, Joe Riley, Matthew Willock, Demetri Mitchell, Ruari Croskery, Callum Nicholas, Oliver Rathbone, Marcus Rashford, Charlie Scott, Andreas Pereira, Vashiko Dick, Oliver McBurnie.

Axel Tuanzebe - Awesome name!

 

[backofthenet]

He's supposed to be a real prospect, along with Marcus Rashford. Looking forward to it. Do we know when BBC NI will release the TV schedule so we can see if there are games live?

 

[AngeloHenriquez]

The squad
Joel Castro Pereira, Kieran O'Hara, Axel Tuanzebe, Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, Scott McTominay, Jordan Thompson, Joe Riley, Matthew Willock, Demetri Mitchell, Ruari Croskery, Callum Nicholas, Oliver Rathbone, Marcus Rashford, Charlie Scott, Andreas Pereira, Vashiko Dick, Oliver McBurnie.

 

[mo0]

interesting to see who is still around from that Nike Premier Cup (2011) team.

 

[mo0]

McBurnie from Bradford City filling in, fwiw, apparently.

 

[Heffo]

Excited for this. Young team but really looking forward to seeing Rashford, Mitchell and Perreira in the same team.

 

[KM]

Vashiko Dick- Now that's a name!

 

[lysglimt]

Vashiko Dick- Now that's a name!

Vash Dick ?????

Now that is scary

 

[Brightonian]

Excited for this. Young team but really looking forward to seeing Rashford, Mitchell and Perreira in the same team.

You realise Joel Pereira is a young keeper, right? Andreas Pereira isn't involved (too old for the competition now.)

 

[gza the genius]

You realise Joel Pereira is a young keeper, right? Andreas Pereira isn't involved (too old for the competition now.)

Both of them are in the squad list posted above.

 

[Brightonian]

Both of them are in the squad list posted above.

Uh oh. I made a bad one.

Apologies Heffo, I seem to have gone selectively blind.

 

[KM]

Vash Dick ?????

Now that is scary

Here's hoping to see him and Donald Love get promoted.

The Love Dick combination could be lethal.

 

[lysglimt]

Here's hoping to see him and Donald Love get promoted.

The Love Dick combination could be lethal.

With Nicky Butt as stand in coach ?

 

[KM]

 

[backofthenet]

So do we know if there is going to be any live games for this, or is it going to be highlights only?

 

[Heffo]

Uh oh. I made a bad one.

Apologies Heffo, I seem to have gone selectively blind.

No worries, I'm actually looking forward to seeing a bit more of that Pereira as well.

So do we know if there is going to be any live games for this, or is it going to be highlights only?

I haven't seen a schedule this year, but going off the last couple of years they haven't shown any live matches in the group stages as far as I remember, the last time they did that was when Brady, Ravel, Keane X2 etc. tore up the tournament. If there's live games they will more than likely be in the knock-out stages and then the final is almost always televised.

 

[jb8521]

1-0 united McBurnie

 

[jb8521]

2-0 Mitchell

 

[jb8521]

3-0 Croskery

 

[gooDevil]

Milk Cup, Monday 29 July:
CO ANTRIM 0

MANCHESTER UNITED 3
(McBurney 5, Mitchell 16, Croskery 23)

29/07/2013 21:53, Report by Mike Shaw

Co Antrim 0 United 3

Manchester United's youngsters kicked off the 2013 Milk Cup campaign with a comfortable win over County Antrim at the Ballymena Showgrounds.
An early goal helped settle any nerves the Reds might have had as Andreas Pereira's free-kick caused havoc in the and Bradford's Oliver McBurney, with the club on work experience, stabbed home from six yards out.
It was one-way traffic and Demetri Mitchell doubled the advantage, capping a fine solo run with a slightly fortuitous deflected finish.
Ruairi Croskery's fine free-kick completed the scoring, the lead allowing Brian McClair to give a run-out to almost his whole squad ahead of games with South Coast Strikers and TuS Altenberge in the days to come.
United: O'Hara; Reid, Tuanzebe (Scott 62), Borthwick-Jackson, Thompson; Riley (Rathbone 62), Willock, A.Pereira (Nicholas 58), Mitchell (Rashford 46); Croskery (McTominay 50), McBurney.

 

[jb8521]

A few people who were at the match saying Pereira was a cut above and that Riley impressed aswell

 

[gooDevil]

I would expect Pereira to stand out in that XI.

 

[Genius Me!]

Yeah, was thinking the same.

 

[backofthenet]

Some brief highlights here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23501222

 

[Sir A1ex]

Bradford's Oliver McBurney, with the club on work experience.

Eh? Since when did somebody who has a job go on work experience with a rival company?

 

[londonredmaniac]

Eh? Since when did somebody who has a job go on work experience with a rival company?

On a secondment I would assume...

 

[Sir A1ex]

On a secondment I would assume...

How does that work then... what do we get out of it, preference on signing him in the future?

 

[backofthenet]

How does that work then... what do we get out of it, preference on signing him in the future?

We get to take a look at a lad plus we get another body where we are short on players for whatever reason.

 

[jb8521]

How does that work then... what do we get out of it, preference on signing him in the future?

We were short on strikers due to injury to Devonte Redmond and the fact our under 15s are playing in the Nike cup next week and have a good relationship with Bradford so asked if we could bring one of theirs along and they recommended McBurnie. We've done it in the past in the Milk Cup with Michael Ngoo who actually scored for us in the final a few years ago and earned himself a move to Liverpool and in the Aegon Cup last year with Sean Goss who we ended up signing last summer

 

[Sir A1ex]

Cheers jb, informative stuff!

I must get back to the transfer forum and start screaming at people about speculative nonsense I ahve no real knowledge of again now...

 

[mo0]

taken Reading and Boro players to Brazil as well.

 

[PS18]

And we've used keepers from Leeds and Newcastle in Marveld/MUPC in recent years (among other players)

 

[jb8521]

United v Strikers FC 1 J Pereira, 2 Reid, 3 Thompson, 4 Tuanzebe, 5 Borthwick-Jackson, 7 Riley, 8 Willock, 9 Croskery, 10 McBurnie, 11 Mitchell, 14 A Pereira

 

[jb8521]

1-0 Riley