Zanda Siziba hit a hat-trick as the U23s beat Bury Town 6-1 in a friendly at Playford Road this morning.

The 18-year-old midfielder has enjoyed a goals-a-plenty pre-season having previously grabbed five for an U18s side which beat Cambridge United 5-4 last month.

Corrie Ndaba, Cameron Humphreys and Harley Curtis netted the other three goals for Kieron Dyer’s side, who get their Professional Development League Two South campaign under way when they face Coventry City at home on Monday 16th August (KO 1pm).

They continue their campaign the following Monday with a trip to Crewe to face the Alex at Gresty Road (KO 1pm). Their full fixtures can be found on the club site.

Meanwhile, Town’s U18s with a number of overage players in their side beat AFC Sudbury 2-0 in a friendly, also at Playford Road, with Ola Bello and Jesse Nwabueze the goalscorers.

Elsewhere, former Blues academy forward Ben Knight made his senior Manchester City debut as a 74th-minute sub in this afternoon's Community Shield at Wembley as the Premier League champions were beaten 1-0 by FA Cup winners Leicester.

Knight, 19, left Playford Road for City for an initial £1 million in June 2018.

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algarvefan added 20:12 - Aug 7 Siziba and his goal scoring deserve a little look at soon maybe even in a certain cup match on Tuesday.
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Monkey_Blue added 21:21 - Aug 7 Lambert was very positive about this lad publicly which i know for some means he's useless but he's delivering on his promise.
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Monkey_Blue added 21:26 - Aug 7 Knights has pep as coach so hopefully he fulfils his potential. Liam Gibbs had cook as coach so he left. 😉 I know this will be lots of negative marks but it's a fact. If Man City comes calling… but your club fight vs Norwich and they don't?
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Pilgrimblue added 21:36 - Aug 7 Get him on for cup games then see how he goes.
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midastouch added 21:36 - Aug 7 Clearly too good for the U23s. Get him training with the first team and if he looks the part in training and is running rings around some of the first team players (as Dyer did when he first came through) then it will be perfectly clear he's more than ready for League One action!
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midastouch added 21:45 - Aug 7 I can't help but wonder, how does Siziba compare with Jacobs and Aluko? We've got so many attacking players now I'm worried Zanda might not get given a chance and could potentially get fed up waiting and end up elsewhere. I really hope I'm wrong as I'd love to see Zanda succeed at Ipswich rather than elsewhere. One thing is for sure, if he keeps scoring hat-tricks in the reserves (or double hat-tricks even!) it won't be long before others coming calling. I think we could have a potential gem on our hands here, perhaps better already than some of the players we've been signing.

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spanishblue added 22:32 - Aug 7 Monkey blue 5,500£s a week also has a lot to do with it,I think most 17 year olds would be off for that, probably his dads got a job off the back of that
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Cadiar added 08:11 - Aug 8 spanishblue, a 17 year old on that sort of money, of course he's going to go. He would have been an idiot to turn that down. i saw some remarks about him saying he'd disappeared etc and people voicing their rather stupid opinions. Even if he doesn't make it at Man C he'll probably be sold on & we will get a %age so winners all round.
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dirtydingusmagee added 10:49 - Aug 8 this lad certainly knows where the net is, hope he dosnt slip through ours ,
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