Crewe Alexandra U17s 5 Brentford U17s 2 | OneFootball

Brentford exit the Professional Development League Cup at the round of 16 following a 5-2 defeat to Crewe at the Crewe Academy Training Ground on Wednesday.

The hosts went into the break with a two-goal lead thanks to an opening goal which came five minutes in and another goal just after the half hour mark. Crewe went on to score three more times in the second half with the young Bees scoring two consolation goals close to full-time.

The home side started the game well and caught Brentford off guard with an early goal through Franc Vaughan-Evans.

The young Bees aimed to respond with a quick counterattack following their opponents goal but it led to nothing.

Brentford pushed on to control the game having been rocked by the early Crewe lead.

The visitors forged together a nice passage of play when Isaiah Powis found Domerio Bobb-Semple out wide before crossing towards Micheal McSorley, but his effort went wide.

Despite a good spell of football from Brentford, Crewe punished the Bees again to make it 2-0, this time it was Owen Taylor with the goal.

McSorley nearly halved the deficit just before the break when he drove forward with the ball and unleashed a powerful shot which was saved by the Crewe keeper.

Brentford were extremely unfortunate to not pull one back just a few minutes after half-time when an Otis Honor corner found Powis whose effort came off the bar.

The away side were dominating possession but yet again were punished by a ruthless Crewe side who were lethal in front of goal.

The hosts made it 3-0 just after the hour mark and 4-0 on 71 minutes with a double from Lucas Swann.

Crewe continued their ruthlessness in front of goal making it 5-0 through a long shot from Patrick Mlynarski.

To Brentford’s credit they never stopped working hard and managed to pull back two consolation goals before the full-time whistle.

Subsitute Jovan Kasujja did well to assist Naeem Giscombe for Brentford’s first before a well taken strike from Peters gave the side a second.

Crewe Alexandra: James, Baker, Thopre, Abel-Scott, Leather, Iwin, Mlynarski, Ewusi, Vaughan-Evans, Taylor, Roberts

Subs: Etuhl, Swann, Chadwick, Jones-Mellor, Miguirk

Brentford: Anderson, Ouattara (Bowen, 70), Ivanov, Powis, Golding, Honor, Bobb-Semple (Kasujja, 45’), McSorley, Boni (Giscombe, 60’), Redknapp (Trimboli, 60’), Peters

Subs not used: Lyon