Veteran striker David McGoldrick scored a hat-trick for Barnsley as they beat Manchester United U21s 5-2 in the Vertu Trophy, while Stevenage beat Crystal Palace U21s by the same scoreline. <\/p>\n
Barnet, meanwhile, beat Cambridge United 3-2 to go top of Southern Group H in the night’s other game.<\/p>\n
Alex Revell’s Stevenage side have won all three of their EFL Trophy matches this season and are second in League One, one point behind leaders Cardiff City with a game in hand.<\/p>\n
Lewis Orford twice set up Phoenix Patterson before scoring Boro’s fifth of the game at Lamex Stadium.<\/p>\n
Harry Lee’s own goal had given the hosts the lead before Jovan Malcolm doubled the lead on 24 minutes.<\/p>\n
George King and Kaden Rodney replied for Palace, with Patterson scoring either side before Orford rounded off the scoring in added time.<\/p>\n
McGoldrick, 37, scored his first Barnsley goals since August, with Neil Farrugia and Jon Russell also on target for the Tykes at Oakwell.<\/p>\n
Jack Fletcher had given United the lead but was shown a red card just after the hour, with Chido Obi scoring the visitors’ other goal.<\/p>\n
Barnet fought back from 2-1 down to beat Cambridge. <\/p>\n
Lee Ndlovu gave the Bees the lead before an Oliver Hawkins own goal and a strike from Elias Kachunga put the U’s in front.<\/p>\n
Britt Assombalonga levelled the score on his Barnet debut, with Emmanuel Osadebe netting in the 90th minute to win the game for Dean Brennan’s side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran striker David McGoldrick scored a hat-trick for Barnsley as they beat Manchester United U21s 5-2 in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-217360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}