{"id":518773,"date":"2026-04-08T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:01:08","slug":"match-report-from-man-utd-v-real-madrid-under-21-premier-league-international-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518773\/","title":{"rendered":"Match report from Man Utd v Real Madrid Under 21 Premier League International Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST HALF<\/p>\n<p>Jack Fletcher, bidding to build on his impressive display at Leeds on Good Friday, stole possession and headed forward with nine minutes on the clock, allowing Moorhouse to run-in on goal.<\/p>\n<p>The tenacious midfielder, back with our Under-21s after a solid loan spell at Leyton Orient, still had work to do, but smashed an effort into the top corner, as we pulled ahead early on.<\/p>\n<p>One soon become two when Real Madrid goalkeeper Guillerho Sunico took a heavy touch and allowed Chido Obi to nip in, hauling down our no.9 in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Benjamin Speedie was left with little choice but to point to the spot, with Shea Lacey taking on the responsibility, delicately placing the ball into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIRST HALF Jack Fletcher, bidding to build on his impressive display at Leeds on Good Friday, stole possession&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27998,59,151721,1753,4980,50,1755,81962,101,56,1754,54,1756,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2025-26","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-jack-moorhouse","11":"tag-like","12":"tag-match-coverage","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-search","15":"tag-shea-lacey","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-under-21s","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-united-now","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518773","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=518773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}