Town’s U18s comfortably beat Colchester United 4-1 at Playford Road on Wednesday morning. A brace from Carel Tiofack plus one each from Jidé Maduako (pictured) and Jon Leddy put the young Blues in a commanding position before a late strike from Gus Mufuta reduced the deficit.

Russell Osman’s men took the lead after just seven minutes when Tom Winter’s corner from the right was powerfully headed in by centre-half Jidé Maduako.

Keeper Conor O’Donnell made a good save on 19 to deny Tosin Olufemi, whose low shot from the edge of the box had been deflected.

The visitors again came close to equalising soon after when Matt Redgrave’s header from a corner was headed off the line by David October.

However, the U’s didn’t take advantage of their opportunities and Town scored a second just after the half-hour mark. Winter again provided a quality corner, with Lewis Acott squaring the ball from the back post and Carel Tiofack turning it in from six yards out.

Town were playing some good football and impressive build-up play from Caolan Lavery set Tiofack away but visiting keeper Shaun Phillips made a good stop at his feet.

Jon Leddy netted Town’s third four minutes before the interval after Callum Bennett had been fouled wide on the right. Leddy curled the freekick in with his left foot and it evaded everyone in the box before bouncing into the net.

Bennett came close to increasing the lead on the stroke of half-time when his low drive from the edge of the box hit the sidenetting.

After both sides made a number of substitutions, Tiofack scored his second goal on 57. A quick, strong run from Jack Simmons on the left saw the Welsh U17 international drive into the area before pulling the ball back to Tiofack, who slotted past Phillips.

Colchester had another chance to pull a goal back soon after when O’Donnell made a fine block on the edge of the area, but the ball broke free to Toby Morris but the U’s sub only managed to put the ball over the bar.

Ross Gilfedder spurned another opportunity for the visitors when he cut in from the left and curled his effort wide when he should have at least forced O’Donnell into a save.

However, as the match entered stoppage time, the U’s did get a deserved goal through Gus Mufuta who curled the ball over O’Donnell from 30 yards out.

Town always seemed in control of the match, although Colchester did waste a number of good opportunities. Simmons again impressed when he came on, while David October had another good game at left-back.

U18s: O’Donnell, Bennett, October, Acott, Maduako (Schrøder 68), Leddy (Scotcher 46), Winter, Jones (Meikle 46), Lavery (Simmons 46), Tiofack (Eynon 68), Thorsteinsson.

Report: James Ager

Photo: Action Images

suffolkpoker added 14:54 - Aug 3 good work boys :)
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brian_a_mul added 16:59 - Aug 3 Good to see schroder back playing after injury.
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s6blue added 18:40 - Aug 3 well done lads
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Guthrum added 19:10 - Aug 3 Maduako again - top lad. And the rest. Good to see we've still got talent coming through.
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Brazilian added 19:14 - Aug 3 Is it necessary to have such strange names?
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countrygirl added 19:43 - Aug 3 good result.Leddy free kick again. Is that 2 or 3 in a row??? keep it up for the league lads.!!!!!
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tellitasiseeit added 20:41 - Aug 3 well played lads another headed goal from jide Maduaka. Does well from corners and free kicks? .Well done to all the players COYB
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EatonBlue added 20:48 - Aug 3 These lads are making good progress. My only concern is that they may not have the opportunity to progress to regular competitive senior football as we do not now a reserve team in a league.
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Back_The_Boss added 21:26 - Aug 3 Good result.
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up_the_town4 added 23:01 - Aug 3 Well done boys another good result and performance by the sounds of it. Good to see e 1st year scholars impressing in particular leddy and simmons who's names seem to be popping up all the time well done boys keep it up COYB!!!!
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