CITY'S Under-18s faced Tottenham Hotspur in their first home match for over a month at Colney, but it was the visitors who took the spoils with a 2-0 win.
Norwich started brightly and came very close to opening the scoring in the seventh minute. Tottenham failed to clear the ball with Norwich having several shots blocked in a goal mouth scramble, eventually the ball fell to Ryan Oakley whose shot hit the crossbar.
After 15 minutes good link up play between Patrick Drmola and Josh Dawkin saw Dawkin make his way in to the Spurs' penalty area, but his shot was well saved down low by the visiting 'keeper.
Spurs broke from defence well after 25 minutes, Kudus Oyenuga showing good pace to out run David Stephens and Danny Kelly, Remi Matthews came off his line and saved well when one on one.
Ten minutes before the break Spurs had a penalty appeal turned down, again the Spurs centre forward broke at pace and Remi once more came out quickly to close the angle, the Spurs forward tumbled under the challenge and looked for a penalty, the referee waved away the claims.
Just 10 minutes after the break Tottenham took the lead when a cross from the left by Paul McBride was converted from close range by Jake Nicholson.
Spurs increased their lead just after the hour mark when Harry Kane rounded Remi Matthews in goal and squared the ball for Oyenuga from close range.
Norwich were finding chances hard to come by, on 72 minutes George Francomb had a shot from range which went just wide of the target.
Tottenham looked comfortable in the remainder of the match and limited Norwich to very few chances and deserved their win.
Final score: Norwich 0 Tottenham 2
Speaking after the game Academy Manager Ricky Martin said: "Given the manner in which we started the game I was disappointed with the end result and the second half performance. We started well and should have taken the lead as we restricted Tottenham to just a couple of chances. We looked off the pace in the second period and did not threaten the Tottenham goal often enough."
CITY: Matthews, Francomb, Gordon, Ball, D. Kelly, Stephens, Clarke (Loza 70), Dobbs (S. Kelly 80), Drmola (Jones 60), Oakley, Dawkin.
SPURS: Archer, Waller-Lassen (Tapping, 80), Durojaiye, Byrne, Pritchard; Parrett, Carroll, Nicholson, Kane, McBride (Dombaxe, 65); Oyenuga. Unused sub: Day.
