{"id":812226,"date":"2026-10-24T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812226\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:10:13","slug":"the-striker-who-left-manchester-united-this-summer-but-cant-stop-scoring-against-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812226\/","title":{"rendered":"The striker who left Manchester United this summer but can’t stop scoring against Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City’s Academy sides will be sick of the sight of former Manchester United<\/a> marksman Louie Bradbury.<\/p>\n

The teenage striker left Old Trafford<\/a> in September to join Stoke City and within hours of his departure from United, hit a debut hat-trick against City’s Under-18 side.<\/a><\/p>\n

That treble came in a losing cause with the Blues winning 8-5 in an astonishing contest. <\/a>And Bradbury was at it again on Friday night for Stoke’s Under-21s in their Premier League<\/a> 2 thriller at City.<\/p>\n

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The 18-year-old only came off the bench midway through the first half owing to injury but that didn’t stop him scoring his fourth and fifth goals of the campaign against City.<\/p>\n

The visitors, largely second best in the first half, took the lead against the run of play when another sub – Thomas Midwood – headed home early in the second period.<\/p>\n

Bradbury then profited from a slack backpass by City sub Marlow Barrett to race clear and score his first and Stoke’s second, before netting again minutes later from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n

Bradbury, who has represented Wales at youth level, spent four years at United. The striker also played for Wales Under-19s this summer, which included substitute outings against Denmark and Spain.<\/p>\n

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But despite Bradbury hitting a brace and Stoke leading 3-0 heading into the final quarter, City staged an incredible recovery with four goals in the final 14 minutes to win a thriller.<\/p>\n

Xavier Parker pulled one back before sub Teddie Lamb reduced the deficit to one. Harrison Miles scored a 90th minute equaliser and then Dexter Oliver curled in a stunning stoppage time winner for the hosts.<\/p>\n

Oli Reiss’ side return to action on Tuesday in the EFL Trophy when they visit Port Vale in a must win tie. Anything other than three points will see City knocked out in the group stage after a win over Mansfield and a defeat at Chesterfield in their opening two games in the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City’s Academy sides will be sick of the sight of former Manchester United marksman Louie Bradbury. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2502,1441,1465,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-manchester-city-fc","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-manchester-united-transfer-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812226","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=812226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}