A tight Lancashire Senior Cup Quarter Final ended with a young United side overcoming Blackpool thanks to a single McTominay goal.
With a heavy schedule at the moment and so many Under-21 players standing by on senior duty, Warren Joyce fielded a very inexperienced side that included several players beginning the process of stepping up from the Under- 18s. Against a Blackpool side featuring several first team players, this was always going to be a difficult and demanding task and the United youngsters showed impressive determination to come through it.
On a weather-ravaged Bloomfield Road pitch, the young Reds struggled to get any sort of passing game together in the first half. Although United did well to stifle the forward advances of the home side, the wide player were struggling to get forward in support and the Reds' own attacking forays coming to nothing.
Chances continued to be at a premium in the second half but, with Mitchell (right) pushing forward on the left the Reds began to show more penetration and it was little surprise when his work gave United the lead. The winger cut into the box, his pace leaving his marker for dead, and his short was parried by the Blackpool keeper only into the path of McTominay, who just had to tap in.
Although the game itself wasn't easy on the eye, it offered valuable experience for United's players. The Reds now face a semi-final against Oldham with the winners to face Everton in the final.
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