Shocking News:Steve Cooper has given up signed his resignation letter few minutes ago

Shocking News:Steve Cooper has given up signed his resignation letter few minutes ago

Jordan Blackwell’s Leicester City notebook looks at the under-21s’ winning run, a scouting trip to Porto alongside Manchester United and Tottenham, and plans to go big on recruitment

While Leicester City’s senior team are struggling for victories, their under-21s can’t stop winning. Two home successes last week means it’s three wins on the spin for the development squad. While that may not sound significant, it’s their longest winning run for two-and-a-half years, since April 2022.

 

They scored seven goals in the process too, beating Middlesbrough 3-1 and then Stoke 4-0. Against Boro, 17-year-old striker Josh King scored a brace for his first goals for City at under-21 level in just his second start, and interim boss Leon McSweeney is keen to give him more opportunities to impress.

McSweeney told the club: “In front of goal he’s a hotshot and we want to maximise that as much as we can, give him as much exposure to 21s football because he can do that on a regular basis. It’s important to get him minutes, and when he responds like that, it’s only going to get him more time on the pitch.”

In the thrashing of Stoke, in which City were 4-0 up before half-time, hot prospect Jake Evans was at the double for his first Premier League 2 goals, the 16-year-old adding to the winner he scored in the Premier League Cup victory at Hull that kicked off this winning run.

 

 

 

Last week’s two victories mean City are now eighth of 26 in the Premier League 2 standings. They’ll hope to rise even higher this Friday when they head to bottom-of-the-table Blackburn, who have lost all of their fixtures so far.

 

There were no appearances for another of City’s leading prospects, 2009-born Jeremy Monga, last week though, as he was away representing England Under-16s. He scored one and set up another in a 3-0 win over Ukraine.