{"id":623296,"date":"2025-12-10T02:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623296\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:30:57","slug":"u18s-match-report-man-utd-1-peterborough-0-9-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623296\/","title":{"rendered":"U18s match report | Man Utd 1 Peterborough 0 | 9 December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SECOND HALF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peterborough had spent much of the first 45 minutes showing spirit to defend in their own half, but they began to pose more of a threat at the other end after the interval. Luca Christoudias&#8217;s free-kick &#8211; albeit high and wide of Cameron Byrne-Hughes&#8217;s goal &#8211; was a reminder that our lead remained slender.<\/p>\n<p>Having seen that, the young Reds set about on going through the gears again. Now advancing towards the old Scoreboard End, Mantato had United&#8217;s first notable opening of the half, chopping inside from the right before firing his fierce left-footed shot over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>Next it was captain Jim Thwaites to be denied on his left foot, this time with a block from a defender, before Mantato had his latest attempt saved by Westcott, who bravely came rushing from his goal to get his frame in the way of Shah&#8217;s powerful rebound.<\/p>\n<p>A series of substitutions for both sides followed, as the contest really began to open up. In United&#8217;s goal, Byrne-Hughes had been kept relatively quiet, but came up big when he was needed in the 66th minute, first getting down low to his left to thwart Patryk Sykut&#8217;s drive, before getting back to his feet to collect Eddie Fox&#8217;s volley, which was straight at him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SECOND HALF Peterborough had spent much of the first 45 minutes showing spirit to defend in their own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,18,2465,17,12,20,16,19,15,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-623296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-like","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-match-coverage","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-search","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-under-18s","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115692927920417844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}