U18s: United 1 Burnley 0

Unlike the free goalscoring of other fixtures in recent weeks, this required patience and grit to overcome a well-organised and determined Burnley side who remained resolute until the game's dying minutes, when Jim Thwaites converted from the penalty spot to give United three points.

Thwaites's deliveries proved a threat all game, and he then dispatched the crucial spot-kick.FIRST HALF

United and Burnley had a chance apiece in the opening stages, with the visitors’ Fabio So shooting wide from outside the area three minutes in, before Abdoulaye’s volley from an in-swinging left-wing Jim Thwaites free-kick struck the crossbar.

That was it for some time, with the two sides shutting each other out…