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“Last year was really disappointing, but to win today is amazing. When we played them in the league it was tight. After we scored, they hit back straight away and we had to regroup at the break.
“The two wide players are electric, you just have to give them the ball and you don’t know what they are going to do.”
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City’s turn to come up and receive their winners’ final. Captain Braithwaite is last up and collects the trophy.
He walks up to his team-mates and lifts the trophy high, kicking off big celebrations behind him.
Unfortunately, the players knock down the presentation boards and crash to the floor with Braithwaite the last to get back on his feet. Credit to him, though, because he didn’t drop the trophy.
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Beaten finalists United are first up to collect their medals. Lots of downbeat faces on the players. A tough night for them.
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— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) May 14, 2026MAN CITY DEFEAT MAN UTD TO WIN THE FA YOUTH CUP! 🏆
Pep Guardiola watches on inside the stadium 👏
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All over and City are Youth Cup winners again. Fully deserved victory for City young players.
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Bodies on the floor everywhere as the young men struggle with cramp.
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Cross from Brown into the near post. Overy connects with it but the direction is lacking.
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Four minutes added on. Four minutes for United to find an equaliser.
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United sub:
OFF Ajayi, Helafu
ON Lusale, Plunkett
City sub:
OFF Heskey, McAidoo
ON Parker, Midwood
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Is that the winner? It had been coming. City have United penned in their box and work the ball from right to left where Heskey collects it.
The winner checks inside his man and rifles a shot into the top corner past Byrne-Hughes. Brilliant finish.
Emotional scenes in the stands for Heskey’s father Emile, the former England international.
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) May 14, 2026Man City regain their lead in the FA Youth Cup final with a brilliant strike from Reigan Heskey 🔥
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Thwaites’ delivery is into the near post and headed clear by City captain Braithwaite, who gets a bump for his troubles by a United player.
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Into the final 10 minutes. Will we get a late winner? Well, Brown has won a free-kick deep in City’s half and Thwaites is standing over the ball...
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More direct play from McAidoo. He drives into the United area and his shot is deflected, looping over Byrne-Hughes and hitting the bar.
United eventually clear the danger.
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Byrne-Hughes has gone down and says he needs treatment. That allows players on both sides to receive tactical advice from their managers. We’ve seen that happen at the senior level and I guess it has filtered down.
Byrne-Hughes was never seen by the United medics, which suggests he was told to go down. Unsportsmanlike play by United there.
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City turning the screw now. They are dominating the ball and United are forced to sit deep and dig in. United boss Darren Fletcher might be thinking of changes to turn the momentum in their favour.
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City skipper Braithwaite is booked for pulling back Obi near the halfway line. That has been a very physical battle.
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Heskey flies down the left wing and drills a cross into the box where Lamb meets it on the volley but the ball goes over the bar. Probably could have done better but it was a tough ball to deal with.
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Have not seen much from Gabriel tonight apart from the moment he was booked. Plenty of time left to make a decisive impact.
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Excellent play by McAidoo to beat Kukoni down the outside and burst into the box. He has only the keeper to beat but blazes his shot over the bar.
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Blistering pace and power by McAidoo to burst from one penalty to the other. He lays it off to Heskey, who was following him all the way but his effort hits the outside of the near post. Should have got that on target I think.
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City want a penalty after Samba goes down after Byrne-Hughes clatters into him. Replays suggest Samba was brought down and the foul was missed by the referee.
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United get the match back under way and they have made a change with the booked McCormack replaced by Brown.
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The whistle blows and that was a dramatic end to a tense half of football. Diving, hard tackles and two goals.
What will the second half have for us?
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59 seconds later and United hit back to equalise. Thwaites clips a cross to the far post, there is a slip by a City defender and Kukoni takes full advantage, rising highest to head into the far corner off the post.
This match has come alive.
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) May 14, 2026Man Utd equalise almost instantly in the FA Youth Cup final through Godwill Kukonki 🔥
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Deadlock broken in stunning fashion. McCormack is booked for a foul 25 yards out. It is just left of centre but Samba steps up and whips a stunning free kick into the top corner past the dive of Byrne-Hughes.
Floyd Samba and Tyrone Samba are the sons of former Blackburn defender Chris Samba.
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) May 14, 2026Floyd Samba with an incredible free-kick to open the scoring for Man City in the FA Youth Cup final 🤯
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Interesting call by referee Field. After booking City’s Headley for diving, United’s Gabriel is the next in the book for simulation.
The United attacker bursts into the box, dribbles past one then another, feels a bit of the contact and goes down. Right call for me.
Now JJ Gabriel has been booked for diving - and this time it’s valid. The United youngster goes to ground far too easily
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Great move by United from back to front. Obi feeds Gabriel down the right. The United No 10 pulls it back to Obi, who takes a touch and shoots but Braithwaite blocks brilliantly.
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Headley is booked for diving in the penalty area. The City defender feels a bit of contact and throws himself to the ground. Never a penalty despite City’s appeals.
It’s been all City so far. Lamb drew a point blank save from Byrne-Hughes and Headley is unfortunate not to win a penalty there - and instead get booked for diving. It looked like Ajayi nudged him in the back and perhaps clipped his leg.
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Haven’t seen much from City duo Lamb and Heskey. They are City’s dangermen along with McAidoo.
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Brilliant save by Byrne-Hughes to deny Lamb. A free-kick is clipped into the United box, the ball is headed back across the goal to the unmarked Lamb just outside the six-yard box. He toe pokes it towards goal but Byrne-Hughes stays big and makes the block.
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) May 14, 2026Cameron Byrne-Hughes with a brilliant stop to deny Man City the lead in the FA Youth Cup Final ⚡️
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First sighter for Obi, who picks up the ball inside the box and blazes an effort over the bar. The angle was against him on this occasion, but I expect his next attempt to be closer.
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Referee Tom Nield is willing to let a lot of physical challenges go without blowing the whistle so far, which is good to see. Let the kids battle!
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First shot on target of the final comes from Headley but his effort is straight at Byrne-Hughes.
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United very keen to play out from the back and goalkeeper Byrne-Hughes has looked confident and comfortable on the ball but City’s Lamb blocks an attempted clearance and fortunately for him, the ball goes out of play.
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Amid the furore about the stadium, it is interesting to see that the away end is packed with United fans but there are plenty of empty blue seats amongst the home fans.
Lots of empty seats in the City sections. United fans are singing: “The City yours, you can’t fill your training ground, are you f------ sure?”
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First sign of JJ Gabriel as he picks up the ball on the half turn and feeds Ibragimov on the right but the winger’s attempted cross goes out of play.
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Pep Guardiola, Michael Carrick, Bruno Fernandes, Luke Shaw and Mason Mount are all at the Joie Stadium to watch tonight’s match.
Former City academy director Jason Wilcox, now United’s director of football, and United CEO Omar Berrada, also formerly of City, are also here.
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Teddie Lamb and JJ Gabriel will showcase their talents on English youth football’s biggest stage.
The banter was flying between JJ Gabriel, Manchester United’s teenage prodigy, and Teddie Lamb at the last England Under-17 camp at St George’s Park in March.
“I was saying to him ‘You need to stop scoring so I can get that top spot!’” Lamb, the prolific young Manchester City striker, reflects, laughing.
“No, it’s healthy competition. It pushes me and I think it pushes him. He wants to score more goals and it’s pushed me to my limits this season to want to score more goals. It’s just that pride you have as a striker. You always want to score goals.”
The two emerging talents in England’s youth set-up resemble a classic big-man-little-man duo upfront, but Lamb and Gabriel will be on opposite sides when City and United’s Under-18s compete in the first all-Manchester FA Youth Cup final for 40 years at the Joie Stadium.
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Man Utd: Byrne-Hughes, Helafu, Mills, Armer ©, Kukoni, McCormack, Ibragimov, Thwaites, Obi, Gabriel, Ajayi
Subs: Overy, Heath, Plunkett, Brown, McEvoy, Lusale, Bradbury
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Man City: Hudson, Headley, Drake, Braithwaite ©, Wain, Miles, McAidoo, F. Samba, Lamb, T. Samba, R. Heskey
Subs: Vickery, Courtman, Tevenan, Gorman, Cassim, Parker, Midwood
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Hello and welcome to coverage of the FA Youth Cup final between Manchester City and Manchester United.
It is a chance to get a glimpse of the potential stars of the future. Will they play for England one day? Can they break into the first team sooner rather than later?
Those are questions which will be answered in time but tonight’s match, which is a derby of course, has a lot at stake.
This is City’s third appearance in a row in the final, winning in 2024 but losing last year to Aston Villa 3-1.
United have won the tournament a record eleven times, and last lifted the trophy in 2022 – which included Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho.
The biggest controversy going into the final is the decision not to play the final at a major stadium.
City turned down an offer to switch the match to United’s Old Trafford ground and the game will instead be played at the 6,447-capacity Joie Stadium.
It is not being played at the Etihad because of “ongoing construction timelines for the North Stand development”.
“We’re disappointed for everyone, disappointed for the Man City players, for our players fundamentally, for the fans, for the coaches on both sides. Everyone involved in the game will be disappointed,” United’s under-18s coach, Darren Fletcher said.
“But ultimately, we move on from it now and we take on the challenge of playing in the academy stadium. It’s done now, so there’s no point in dwelling on it.”
Manchester United Supporters Trust and Manchester United Fans’ Forum representatives called the decision to move the final to the 7,000-capacity ground “a disgrace” in a joint statement and the club have been handed an allocation of just 968 tickets.
Some of the players who have graced the event over the decades read like a who’s who of British football.
Duncan Edwards, Bobby Charlton, George Best, Graeme Souness, Paul Gascoigne, John Barnes, Ryan Giggs, Michael Owen, Jack Wilshere and, more latterly, Marc Guéhi, Cole Palmer and Morgan Rogers.
Who will add their name to that illustrious list tonight?
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