It is great news that both Mikel Arteta and Thierry Henry are returning from injury this week, but although it is certain that these two will be starting against Aston Villa in the FA Cup this weekend, who else will Wenger be putting in the starting line-up. Wenger has made it clear that his ultimate [.

When Arsenal's first team are underperforming, Arsene Wenger has always been comforted by the fact that he has had a plethora of promising youngsters ready to bring in and rejuvenate the team, but even that may no longer be true. The Arsenal first-team may have lost three games in a row, but the reserve side's [.

A couple photos of Michael Thomas. Sporting KC acquired the right of first refusal to Thomas earlier today for a fourth round Supplemental Draft pick. Presumably he will be signed soon. Last year Thomas trained with Sporting KC and even made an appearance in a reserve match as the often seen but rarely named "Trialist 1".

Newcastle Reserves beat Wigan Reserves 3-1 at home this afternoon and Bognor Regis trialist Jason Prior scored the last Newcastle goal on his Newcastle debut. Jason Prior scored a nice goal from 14 yeards out With Alan Pardew, John Carver and Steve Stone are in attendance the Reserves ran out worthy winners and certainly Reserve team [.

When the Carling Cup draw pitched Arsenal against Manchester City, Arsenal fans were already anticipating a tough, nearly impossible to win match against the dominant team in the League at present. Indeed, there is reason to believe so. The Manchester City squad is a very deep one with immense quality – even players like Nigel [.

David McGoldrick was the last-minute saviour for Nottingham Forest Reserves as his second goal of the afternoon levelled the game at the death [...]

The Euro 2012 play-offs are over and we now know all 16 teams who will be competing in Poland and Ukraine next summer. Barring any injury issues, there will definitely be some Villa interest as the Irish saw out their considerable advantage from the first leg against Estonia to book their place in the finals with a 1-1 draw in Dublin.

In the final game of the year for Sporting KC, the Swope Park Rangers finished out the reserve league season today at Swope Park against FC Dallas. The Rangers fell 5-3 to Dallas as Ruben Luna scored 4 goals to help Dallas to the win. Luna opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Jeferson equalized for the reserves in the 37th from the penalty spot after Soony Saad was fouled in the box.

It's not just the Newcatsle first team that is doing so well this season. Patrick Nzuzi 19 year-old played at right back last night The win puts Newcastle 4 points clear of second placed Sunderland in the Barclay's North Premier Reserve league, and they also have a game in hand, and Newcastle Reserves have won five [.

No games won and no points on the table, this has been a dismal start to the season for Liverpool's reserves team. Or, rather, that would be conclusion if you fail to look at the most significant column, that for games played, the one that shows that this week's defeat at Newcastle was only their second game of the season.

It's hard to know where Nile Ranger stands at the moment, and whether Newcastle will again try to sell him in the next transfer window. Nile Ranger - does he have a future on Tyneside? But Nile had a good game last night and scored two goals for the Reserves in their 3-2 win over Liverpool, and he [.

The Swope Park Rangers fell in their reserve league game today against the Houston Dynamo 2-0 at Swope Park today. The reserves dominated the run of play but were unable to find a goal, while the Dynamo scored on their two shots during the game.
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The Uwishunu photo of the day: A collage from the Union's Toronto tie that put the home team into the playoffs!

The Union reserves fell 3-1 to the TFC reserves. Pfeffer netted for the good guys.

Veljko Paunovic is having an MRI on his hamstring today.

Haris Vuckic is now fully fit after breaking his hand against Fulham in August, after he had come on in the second half as a substitute. Haris Vuckic in action for Reserves tonight Haris joined Newcastle in January of 2009 to great fanfare, but has suffered a lot of injuries in the last year, and we [.

Haris Vuckic is now fully fit after breaking his hand against Fulham in August, after he had come on in the second half as a substitute. Haris Vuckic in action for Reserves tonight Haris joined Newcastle in January of 2009 to great fanfare, but has suffered a lot of injuries in the last year, and we [.

After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of the New England Revolution players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5 average, 10 perfection). This week Sean Donahue contributed ratings for the Revs Reserves 5-1 loss to Columbus.

Junior Ntame (left) was one of three guest players for the Revs Reserves on Sunday. (Photo by Art Donahue/artdonahue.com)

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Andrew Sousa gave the New England Revolution Reserves an early lead with a well taken free kick, but the same defensive miscues that have plagued the first team doomed the Reserves as the Columbus Crew stormed back to grab a 5-1 win on Sunday morning.

A young and deeply inexperienced Nottingham Forest side travelled to Belper Town on Wednesday to face a Derby County team littered with experienced professionals. With the darkness of winter closing in, and the soft rain moistening the lush, emerald green pitch, an atmospheric encounter was expected and both sides duly delivered in quite some style [.

One of the many impressive youngsters at Newcastle is 19 year-old French central midfielder Mehdi Abeid. Mehdi Abeid - in action at York This lad looks a star player of the future and we had reported on Tuesday that he had joined up with the Algerian U23 side last week, but it seems in the comments he has made to the [.

The Sporting KC reserves, the Swope Park Rangers, fell to FC Dallas in reserve team action today 2-1 down in Dallas. From reports KC had a good run of play today controlling large portions of the game, but couldn't capitalize on the chances. Dallas grabbed two goals in the first 16 minutes through Ruben Luna and Bobby Warshaw.

It's not only the Newcastle first team that have made a good start to the season. Alan Pardew great job at Newcastle so far so good Newcastle have 15 points from their first 7 Premier League games and are sitting at 4th top of the table at the moment. But the Reserves side, managed [...]

John Carver was in charge of the Newcastle Reserves side last night in Lancashire, as a strong second string Newcastle side easily beat Bolton 3-0. Alan Pardew - great credit to this man but can it last? And as we reported earlier today Newcastle fielded a very strong side, and they ended up very easy winners on the night.

Newcastle played a very strong Reserves side against Bolton last night and came away with a 3-0 win. Peter Lovenkrands in action last night And manager Alan Pardew traveled with the side and saw new French signing Sylvain Marveuax hit two second half goals for the side. Here was the strong side that Newcastle played last night: Harper, Streete, Henderson, Perch, Ferguson, [.

For the Newcastle Reserves team tonight both Davide Santon and Nile Ranger made starts for the side, and Newcastle came through 5-3 winners, after going ahead 3-0 after only 22 minutes. David Santon was making his first start since he played at home against Norwich City Reserves, but two days after that game he complained of a sore [.

Arsenal hosted Blackburn on Tuesday night in what was a frustrating night for both sides. The team sheet included last weeks debutants Aneke, Ozyakup and Ryo (who is still short of fitness)! Neil Banfield decided to try last weeks unused sub Nico Yennaris in an unfamiliar central midfield spot, with under 18's Monakana, Ansah and [.

It may not make up for the loss last night between the first teams, but the Swope Park Rangers earn a bit of revenge today defeating the Salt Lake reserves 1-0 thanks to an 88th minute penalty by Davy Arnaud. Both teams created some chances in the first half, the best was probably CJ Sapong hitting the post.

A very important part of the Newcastle squad this season is the youngsters, who can hopefully fill out the squad and do well when they are given their chance in the first team. John Carver - impressed with Newcastle youngsters Yesterday afternoon the young Newcastle Reserves side with veteran goalkeeper Steve Harper getting a run-out, [.

If you were trying to figure out a way to make it from LIVESTRONG Sporting Park to Swope Park for the reserve game against the Houston Dynamo, you can stop your planning. Today the team announced that the Swope Park Rangers game against the Dynamo has been moved totally from this Saturday. The game will now be played on Tuesday October 18th.

This coming Saturday was supposed to see a double header at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park between Sporting KC and the Houston Dynamo with the reserves set to follow the first team. That plan has now changed, likely due to the deteriorating conditions of the playing field at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park. The reserve game will now be taking place at the club's training facility at Swope Park.

After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of the New England Revolution players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5 average, 10 perfection). This week Sean Donahue contributed ratings for the Revs Reserves 2-1 victory over Toronto FC.

Zack Schilawski rounds goalkeeper Angelo Cavaluzzo before slotting in the game-winning goal. (Photo by CHRIS ADUAMA/aduama.com)

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution first team has struggled mightily over the past month to hold on to leads and the reserves looked destined to follow suit on Friday morning against Toronto FC after the visitors erased the Revs 1-0, 67th minute lead just seven minutes later.

Highlights from the NextGen Series will more than likely be a little thin on the ground and will rely heavily on the participating clubs' own media departments. Fortunately, Ajax TV have done a good job of putting together this video from our 2-0 loss in Amsterdam in the opening game last week.

Of course, there might be a little bias in the edit, but this seems a fair reflection of the game from as much as I could gather.

A Newcastle Reserve side beat Gateshead Reserves 5-0 at Darsley Park in Benton yesterday afternoon. Daniel-Situ-Buyente on trial at Newcastle And Newcastle took the chance of giving some top youngsters a game as Haris Vuckic, Shane Ferguson, Sylvain Marveaux, Nile Ranger and Mehdi Abeid all played some part in the game.

It's being billed as the "Champions League of youth football", which is probably a massive overstatement, but the NextGen Series is an interesting competition nevertheless. We're one of 16 teams across Europe taking part in this new Under-19 championship which kicked off with a handful of games this evening, including our own Young Lions going down 2-0 to Ajax at their youth training camp, De Toekomst Dutch for "The Future".

The Swope Park Rangers, Sporting KC's reserve side, moved their record in the reserve league this year to 2-2-2 with a 1-0 win over the Colorado Rapids today at the Swope Park training complex. An early goal by Soony Saad was the lone tally in the game. Both teams had some good chances, in a game that was delayed for a period of time due to lightning.

Arsenal lost todays last pre-season friendly against Benfica and Arsene Wenger thinks that the reason they were defeated was because we were missing key players. Okay, so lets have a look at the team that played: Szczesny, Sagna, Vermaelen, Rosicky, Van Persie, Ramsey, Song, Djourou, Gervinho, Arshavin, Gibbs Subs: Fabianski, Squillaci, Jenkinson, Chamakh, Traore, Frimpong, [.

The Newcastle Reserve side played their third and final game in Holland, but were beaten 3-2 by Almere City this afternoon. Newcastle Development coaches look on this afternoon But manager Pretor Beardsley seemed happy enough, and the lads will now travel back to Newcastle, after having spent 7 days on what turned out to be [.

Newcastle United's Reserve team were 2-0 down but showed good spririt in coming through to win the game against FC Utrect by 3-2, and all 5 goals were scored in the last 31 minutes of the game. Joey Barton hits Newcastle's first goal after 75 minutes This was the second friendly of their Dutch [.

The Swope Park Rangers fell in a reserve league game today out at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park to the Chicago Fire. With Sporting KC set to take on Newcastle tomorrow, and a game against Toronto this weekend, KC's lineup saw them field only six players that are actually on KC's roster. The other 5 starters, and all 5 substitutions were either trialists or Juniors players.

It would have been very hard while Joey Barton was at Manchester City or in his first couple of years at Newcastle, to call him a shining example to the youngsters. Joey Barton now a good role model for the bairns nice haircut too! But that's what Reserve team manager Peter Beardsley has [...]