Nti strikes in 2-2 draw with Tottenham

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Albion have taken five points from their opening three league games in Premier League South.

2024-09-01T06:00+01:00

Our men's under-18s continued their unbeaten start to the Premier League South campaign with a 2-2 draw at Tottenham.

Darius Lane found Nehemiah Oriola in the box with a well placed low cross and the forward made no mistake to put Albion in front after 24 minutes.

Spurs equalised a minute into the second half though as Herbie James thumped in a rocket, which smacked the underneath of the crossbar on the way in.

Another terrific Spurs goal put the hosts in front with seven minutes of normal time to play as Luca Williams-Barnett superbly glanced in Miracle Adewole’s cross, but the drama didn’t end there.

Albion won the ball high up and Jesse Middleton unselfishly teed up Shane Nti to slot home the equaliser.

The visitors could have come away with all three points too, but Lane slipped as he took aim with the last kick of the game when one-against-one with keeper Sam Archer, which allowed the Spurs stopper to get his body in the way of the effort.

Men’s under-18s head coach Inigo Calderon said, “It was a really good game. The boys showed a great reaction after a bad game from Tuesday [in the Premier League Cup].

“We asked them to show passion and a feeling of pride at being part of the football club – they did it perfectly.

“We played some good football, but we still have room to improve. That's the best thing because we play against three tough oppositions in the first three games and we could have won all of them. That's down to all the hard work they are doing because it's been tough as we want to improve quickly.

“It's going to take us time, but still we are performing well.

“In the first half we were really good. We probably should have scored one more, at least. But that's football and they scored just at the beginning of the second half. We showed character to stay in the game and probably the second half was more even.

“More important than the three points is the performance, the reaction and the passion the players played with.”