WHAT HAPPENED Joel Lopez scored his first goal for the club on Saturday as we defeated West Ham United 5-2 in the Under-18 Premier League. Folarin Balogun also found the back of the net, scoring twice to take his goalscoring tally up to 22 for the season across all competitions. As ever, we were fast out of the blocks and found ourselves leading in the 14th minute when Zak Swanson provided the finishing touch to a well-worked free-kick routine. Sam Greenwood fizzed the ball across the edge of the penalty area and Swanson found the bottom left corner with a first-time strike. Shortly after, Vontae Daley-Campbell’s searching pass placed Balogun one-on-one with defender Josh Okotcha, who...
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