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 Season 2016-17
Steel Cup - Friendlies
Corby Town (a) & PSV Eindhoven (n)




In association 
with NUFC.com
 
Dates: 
Saturday July 23rd, 3.30pm 
Sunday July 24th, Noon 
Venue: Steel Park, Corby

Conditions: Dry and sunny

Admission: £15 (£25 for both days)

Programme: £2.50 (covered both days)



Following pre-season victories at Bradford Park Avenue and Darlington, Newcastle's U21 side made their bow at the Steel Park home of Northern Premier League side Corby Town on Saturday.

Joining the hosts, Leeds United and 2015 Champions PSV Eindhoven in the second staging of the annual Steel Cup, United faced Corby in the second game of the two day tournament. 

Sat 23.07.2016:
(PSV Eindhoven XI 4-1 Leeds United XI)

Corby Town 0-3 Newcastle United XI Charman(40), Longstaff(58,72)

 


Luke Charman fires United ahead


Waffle:

The Steelmen came close to opening the scoring when Brad-Lee Gascoigne struck a post before visiting forward Luke Charman turned and shot home before half time. 

With recent arrival Yasin El-Mhanni catching the eye, Longstaff then added two goals in the second half, the second coming direct from a corner kick that eluded ex-Newcastle 'keeper Aidan Grant.

Team: Woolston, Williams, Newberry (Broccoli 58), Satka, Good, Hunter, Ward, Holmes (Da Silva 74), Longstaff, El-Mhanni (Barlaser 80), Charman.
Subs n/u: Harker, Cameron, Findlay, Vuckic, Toney, Roberts.

CTFC: Grant, Kennedy, Odofin, Anton, Gascoigne, Draper (Carrallo 46), Orenuga (Kromah), Webb, Ball, Milnes, Marshall
Subs n/u: Marshall, Parkes,  Buka, Johnson, Revan, Ogilvie, Master

Referee: tbc


Sun 24.07.2016:
Newcastle United XI 1-0 PSV Eindhoven XI Cameron(50)

(Corby Town 3-0 Leeds United XI)


The sides line up before kickoff

 

 

Team: Harker, Mbabu, Cameron, Findlay, Bigirimana, Gillesphey, Gilliead, Barlaser, Toney, Vuckic (Longstaff 80 tbc), Roberts.
Subs n/u: Broccoli, Woolston, Satka, Williams, Ward, Da Silva, Charman, Newberry.

PSV: Watt, Van Bruggen, Rommens, Laursen, Gudmundesson, Hattu, Deng, Obispo, Sadilek, Daneels, Konings.

Subs (usage tbc): Van De Meulenhof, Abels, Kardes, Blummel, Fernandes, Gakpo, Verreth, Piroe.

Referee: Stephen Ross

Waffle:

Peter Beardsley's side lifted the Steel Cup at Corby Town's Steel Park on Sunday following a thoroughly deserved victory over the reigning champions PSV.

In a one-sided first half, Haris Vuckic hit the woodwork, an Ivan Toney effort was ruled offside and numerous other clear-cut chances were wasted.  

The breakthrough came five minutes into the second period though, when Toney's header from a Callum Roberts corner was parried by 'keeper Jamie Watt.

Defender Kyle Cameron (clad in a protective face mask) was on hand to bundle the ball home and with the Dutch side failing to muster a single shot on goal, his effort was enough to lift the cup. 


Silverware!

 


Crowd: a combined 1,368 over both days.

 

Football Development Manager Peter Beardsley said:

"We deserved to win it, there's no doubt about it. In the first half they were excellent, and the only frustration was that we didn't score more.

"I know we keep saying there are great saves and things like that, but some of them were poor misses in my opinion.

"Once we scored the goal, probably like most teams, we sat back and almost settled for that, but we should, in my opinion have got a second and a third, because you're always vulnerable at the very end when they're bumping it forward. But generally, it's been a good weekend."

"They played really, really well. Some of the football, the movement and the chances we created (against PSV) were excellent. I actually said to them at half time 'you could come a cropper here, because you've played so well and haven't scored, and it could go against you'.

"That's football, we've seen it when a team has ten, 15, 20 chances and don't score, and then the other team go up the other end and score.

"That worried me, but fair play to them - they got what they deserved over the weekend.

"In the four games we've played in pre-season so far we've scored 12 goals and conceded one - I sound like an anorak now - but the game's about scoring goals and entertaining and that's what we try and do."

Pre-season pitch time (in minutes):

Dan Barlaser 45+58+10+90=203
Gael Bigirimana 45+58+90+0=193
Stefan Broccoli 45+45+32+0=132
Kyle Cameron 45+45+90+0=180
Luke Charman 0+32+90+0=122
Flavio Da Silva 45+32+16+0=93
George Ede 45+0+0+0=45
Yasin Ben El-Mhanni 0+45+80+0=125
Stuart Findlay 45+45+90+0=180
Liam Gibson 45+0+0+0=45
Macaulay Gillesphey 45+45+90+0=180
Alex Gilliead 45+58+90+0=193
Curtis Good 0+45+90+0=135
Nathan Harker 45+90+90+0=225
Tyler Harvey 45+0+0+0=45
Jamie Holmes 45+32+74+=151
Jack Hunter 0+0+90+0=90
Sean Longstaff 45+32+90+10=177
Kevin Mbabu 0+0+90+0=90
Michael Newberry 0+45+58+0=103
Callum Roberts 45+45+0+90=180
Lubo Satka 45+45+90+0=180
Ben Smith 45+0+0+0=45
Liam Smith 45+0+0+0=45
Ivan Toney 45+58+0+90=193
Haris Vuckic 45+58+0+80=193
Dan Ward 45+32+90+0=167
Callum Williams 45+45+90+0=180
Paul Woolston 0+0+90+0=90
Many thanks to GW for the PSV report and pics
 
Page last updated 15 June, 2017