United’s manager in waiting<\/a> Michael Carrick took his seat in the stands alongside his coaches, as well as captain Bruno Fernandes, Mason Mount, Luke Shaw and Patrick Dorgu.<\/p>\nBut it was the City youngsters and the supporters along with first-team boss Pep Guardiola and senior players such as Phil Foden, Antoine Semenyo and Nathan Ake who were celebrating as the U18s lifted the trophy.<\/p>\n
The pre-match star billings of Teddie Lamb and JJ Gabriel, who have scored a combined 54 goals between them this season, were both kept quiet for large periods of the contest.<\/p>\n
City’s prolific striker Lamb’s close-range effort was kept out by Byrne-Hughes’ incredible reflex save and he also somehow scooped an effort over the crossbar from inside the six yard box.<\/p>\n
At the other end, the Premier League U18 player of the season Gabriel did call Max Hudson into making a comfortable save low down, while the 15-year-old was also booked for simulation in the box.<\/p>\n
Chido Obi, who had screwed wide from a promising position, then saw a better opportunity fall his way 14-yards out in the centre of goal, but City captain Kaden Braithwaite made a brilliant sliding challenge to deny the United striker.<\/p>\n
After trading first-half goals, City felt they had a good shout for a penalty when Byrne-Hughes appeared to bring down Samba in the box, but the hosts were awarded only a corner, much to their displeasure.<\/p>\n
Reiss’ side were creating the better chances and Heskey gave a warning sign when he struck into the side-netting, before belting home the winning goal which he will remember for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was widespread interest in this game with the first-team contingent of both teams in attendance at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-584285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584285","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=584285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}