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Manchester United u19s took on AZ Alkmaar within the UEFA Youth League on Tuesday.
The Dutch aspect gained the competitors simply two seasons in the past so it was positive to be a troublesome fixture for Adam Lawrence’s aspect.
The open exchanges had been even with neither aspect threatening the objective till a mistake from Tristan Kuijsten. The AZ keeper allowed Jeremiah Esajas’ again go to slide beneath his foot and into the web to present United the early lead.
The house aspect then appeared to stage it up with the tough Julian Oerip inflicting issues within the last third. Habeeb Ogunneye offered a wonderful clearance shortly earlier than being compelled off attributable to damage.
Approaching the top of the primary half, United didn’t clear AZ’s nook permitting Yoel van den Ban to offer the end from shut vary.
Oerip then compelled a prime save from William Murdock simply earlier than the whistle as United breathed a sigh of reduction to enter the break stage.
The tight contest continued into the second half with Ashton Missin forcing a scrambling block from the AZ defender.
It was chaos within the AZ space as United appeared to power their approach in, however Jayce Fitzgerald’s effort was blocked broad in the long run after some good ability to open the house to shoot.
Within the 67th minute, Murdock produced one other robust save however AZ regained possession shortly to arrange Kasper Boogard, who struck previous Murdock to present AZ the lead.
United appeared to reply with some harmful crosses into the field, the primary of which was simply out of attain for Ethan Wheatley after which Gabriele Biancheri couldn’t maintain his effort on the right track.
The Crimson Devils managed the ultimate levels however late probabilities from Fitzgerald and Jack Fletcher couldn’t discover the web to present United the equaliser they had been chasing.
United now flip to the return leg the place they may host AZ Alkmaar at Previous Trafford with a giant crowd anticipated to be behind them to turnover the 2-1 deficit.
United: Murdock, Ogunneye (Kamason 31), Jackson, Armer (Munro 46), Amass, Devaney, Fitzgerald, J. Fletcher, Missin (Mantato 60), Wheatley (Biancheri 72), Williams (Ibragimov 72)
Unused subs: Byrne-Hughes, Obi-Martin, Baumann, Scanlon
