Klug Praises Youth

By Aston
April 23 2005

Ipswich Town’s academy director Bryan Klug has praised Town’s youth team for their performance in the FA Youth Cup Final last night.

Substitute Ed Upson scored the only goal of the night, deep into the second half of extra time to give Town a 1-0 win on the night and 3-2 on aggregate.

Klug: “The boys were fantastic and really dug in for the 120 minutes.

“Southampton are a terrific side and probably felt they were unfortunate still to be level at full-time but our defenders and 'keeper were outstanding.

“James Krause did well on the left side, Michael Synnott played in pain and was terrific and the two lads in the middle, Chris Casement and Aidan Collins, were great for us.

“Shane was superb as well, the double save in the second-half was top class and they never wilted under the pressure Southampton put us under.

“But it shows the character the boys have, the whole team gave their all and while we didn't match the level of performance from the first-leg, the spirit shone through again and got us that trophy.”

Source: Ipswich Town - the official website.

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