Reds warm up for USP tie with 11 goal romp
Fareham Town Under-18s warmed up for tonight’s FA Youth Cup first qualifying round tie at US Portsmouth with an 11-0 victory in the Hampshire Development League.
George Lewry and Joshua Heaton both scored hat-tricks against Chichester as the Reds bounced back from losing their first two league matches.
Lloyd Davies - who started the rout with a goal in the first minute - and Joe Neely both scored twice with sub Max Lindsay also scoring.
All Lewry’s goals came in the first half and Fareham led 7-0 at half-time.
The Reds had lost 9-0 to Winchester City and 3-2 to Petersfield in their first two games.
US Portsmouth drew 2-2 with Gosport Borough at the weekend.
Danny Knight’s youngsters have already played one game in the Youth Cup.
In their first-ever season in the tournament, they beat Bournemouth Poppies 5-1 at the Victory Stadium.
Hawks travel to Poole tonight for their first qualifying round tie against Hamworthy United.
It is a tough test for the Hawks youngsters, who will be managed by Joe Oastler, as the Hammers boast one of the best youth systems in Dorset.
Hamworthy caned
Gosport Borough 6-0 in their qualifying round tie a fortnight ago and on Sunday won 8-1 in a Dorset Under18 League game against Dorchester Town.
Prior to that, they had won 13-0 against Christchurch,
5-1 against Weymouth and
7-1 against Dorchester in friendlies.
Moneyfields enter the Youth Cup on Thursday with a home tie against Basingstoke, while AFC Portchester travel to Brockenhurst the same evening.
Moneyfields warmed up for their game with a 4-0 win at Portchester on Sunday in what was the Royals’ first Hampshire Combination East game of 2020/21.
Portchester have already played one Youth Cup tie, a 4-0 win at Alton which featured two goals from Patrick Hnath.
After this week, there are two more rounds of qualifying before League 1 and League 2 clubs such as Portsmouth enter at the first round proper stage.
The Premier League and Championship clubs enter at the third round stage.
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