Echo News Shrimpers score 14 goals in win against Dagenham

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[Strykr]

I didnt think we had youth squads anymore? 14 goals? Thats more then our entire front line

Zlatev? How far away are these guys from national league football?

 

[amsemp]

Nikolay Zlatev is a first year forward and is 17 I believe. Sisanda Maguranyanga is a second year forward, so imagine he’s around 18. In 19 appearances so far this season, Nikolay has scored 18 and Sisanda has scored 22 according to the FA website for the NL U19 Alliance.

So there’s definitely some impressive numbers being put up. Not sure how first team ready either are though, but seems likely we may see both feature occasionally in pre-season I reckon.

 

[blueveined]

From SUFCyouth on X -



Sisanda Maguranyanga (26) and Nikolay Zlatev (24) have now contributed a half-century of goals in competitive fixtures this season.

 

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Six goals - for Southend United striker Nikolay Zlatev (Image: ROB CRAVEN)
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Southend United's under 18 side bolstered their goal difference with a dominant 14-1 victory over Dagenham & Redbridge at Garon Park.

With the National League U19 Alliance Division A title race set to be determined by fine margins, Blues required a one-sided result to increase the pressure on challengers Chelmsford City and West Ham United Foundation ahead of their meeting on Friday.

And Tom Bailey’s squad duly delivered, taking the lead in just the third minute with the first of two goals for Harrison Lamb.

Southend led by five at half-time with Sisanda Maguranyanga, Nikolay Zlatev and Brandon Dadson also on target.

After the interval, Zlatev alone added five more, with Maguranyanga’s total of four taking his season’s tally beyond 25.

Substitute Jude Morgan also worked his way onto the scoresheet as the hosts ran ri

Lamb, who was making his first competitive start for the club, wasted no time in setting the Shrimpers on their way after they had absorbed some early Daggers pressure.

A quick break found him in plenty of space and he guided a left-footed finish beyond Jack Gibbons.

Dylan Pattison twice went close to adding to the advantage, each time from Oscar Miller deliveries, but he nodded over on nine minutes before hitting the base of the post with another aerial effort.

Gibbons was then required to gather at the second attempt to prevent Dadson’s long-range strike from going in after a quarter-of-an-hour.

Sixty seconds later, Blues had doubled their lead.

Miller was the provider again, sending a cross to the far post, where Maguranyanga arrived unmarked to convert with ease.

A minute later, the former Hamilton Academical forward had drilled a powerful shot narrowly wide as Southend continued to pile on the pressure.

Dadson also sent an attempt wide after good build-up play involving Muhammad Limbada and Lamb, before setting up Zlatev, who fired a fierce shot over.

The striker made amends on 32 minutes as he added the third, capitalising on Dagenham being temporarily reduced to ten men through injury to break away and steer his finish under Gibbons.

Lamb twice went close, directing shots wide, before doubling his personal tally in the 40th minute.

This time he beat Gibbons to the ball as the Shrimpers surged forwards and his left-footed shot trickled over the goal-line to make it 4-0.

Another opportunity arrived in the 45th minute, but Lamb’s attempt to complete a first-half hat-trick resulted in him finding the side-netting from Dadson’s deep cross.

Two minutes later, he went even closer as a curling left-footed strike hit the inside of the right-hand post, rebounding out for Dadson to guide home the fifth.

The second half started with Blues on the front foot, and Gibbons was called upon to save from Lamb on 48 minutes.

However, Southend conceded three minutes later when they failed to clear their lines and Malachi Kazley drilled past Callum Topsfield.

Jacob Webb’s free-kick almost crept in as the visitors enjoyed their best spell of the game, but Blues restored their five-goal cushion on the hour when Morgan took Zlatev’s pass in his stride and ghosted beyond a defender before arrowing his finish into the bottom left-hand corner.

Five minutes later, Zlatev had netted his 20th goal of the season and Blues had scored seven in the game.

Miller’s delivery was dropped by Gibbons and Yobor Sorae fed Maguranyanga.

His shot was blocked by the legs of the goalkeeper, and Zlatev’s follow-up took a slight deflection as it looped into the net.

In the 70th minute, he completed his second hat-trick of the campaign against Dagenham & Redbridge.

Ibrahim Lima supplied a chipped pass and Zlatev beat the advancing Gibbons to the ball, steeling himself to roll into an unguarded net.

Four minutes later, Zlatev had registered his fourth of the afternoon and his third inside nine second-half minutes.

Pattison was the provider on this occasion with a long pass that Gibbons failed to clear outside his area, with Zlatev pursuing the ball and trapping it at an acute angle before stroking his finish into the bottom right-hand corner to make it 9-1.

Maguranyanga went close with a 75th-minute free-kick, but he delivered the 10th goal four minutes later as he found himself clean through from another direct pass, and he deftly lobbed the beleaguered goalkeeper to extend the advantage.

Within two minutes, Maguranyanga had completed his own hat-trick and Southend’s lead had reached double figures.

The goal came in similar circumstances as the forward converted into an empty net after breaching the Daggers defence.

In the 83rd minute, team-mate Zlatev was on the scoresheet again to make it 12-1.

He latched onto a raking pass and outpaced a defender before tapping the ball beyond Gibbons and slotting into the bottom left-hand corner of the goal.

Southend’s appetite was insatiable and, with the visitors - who went into the match without a point so far this season - demoralised, Maguranyanga broke at pace in the 85th minute to net the 13th goal of the afternoon.

Within sixty seconds, Zlatev - who made his senior football debut for Hullbridge Sports in the Essex Senior League at the weekend - had notched his sixth goal of the game, powering the ball into the net as the Daggers failed to deal with another attack.

The 14-1 score-line is the largest recorded in the division so far this season, but equally pleasing for Blues will have been the debut of goalkeeper Harry Carter as a second-half substitute.

The under 16s player has been with the club for six years and replaced Topsfield for the final 20 minutes.

Southend next face King’s Lynn Town, away, on Friday 25th April.

Southend United U18s: Callum Topsfield (Harry Carter 71), Ronnie Durussel (Prince Chinedum 46), Oscar Miller, Ibrahim Lima, Dylan Pattison, Brandon Dadson (Jude Morgan 60), Yobor Sorae, Muhammad Limbada, Nikolay Zlatev, Sisanda Maguaranyanga, Harrison Lamb (Finley Ledger 66).