United are within touching distance of the Barclays Premier Reserve League North title after Gabriel Obertan’s glorious first-half strike clinched a 1-0 win over nearest challengers Liverpool.
With the Merseysiders trailing United by six points but having two games in hand heading into the game at Moss Lane, this meeting of fierce North West rivals was understandably billed as a title decider and was every bit as cagey and close-fought as you would expect from such an encounter. It took a stunning effort from Obertan on the brink of half-time to divide the two teams, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side were good value for their win and now need just four points from their final two league games to clinch a first Northern section title in four years.
UNITED
1. Ben Foster
2. Scott Wootton
3. Joe Dudgeon
4. Corry Evans (c)
5. Ritchie de Laet
6. Oliver Gill
7. Cameron Stewart (15. Paul Pogba 86)
8. Rodrigo Possebon
9. Febian Brandy (16. Will Keane 46)
10. Oliver Norwood
11. Gabriel Obertan
Subs not used
12. Scott Moffatt
13. Conor Devlin
14. Tom Thorpe
Goal scorer: Obertan (44)
Ref: A I Halliday
Attendance: 960
Liverpool: Gulacsi, Irwin, Cooper, Mavinga, Palsson, Amoo, Duran (Mendy 64), Plessis, Bruna, Saric, Dalla Valle (Kacaniklic 66).
Subs not used: Hansen, Brouwer, Kohlert.
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