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Peter Pleased With Cup-Winning Youngsters
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Peter Beardsley believes his side thoroughly merited their Steel Park Cup triumph on Sunday after they beat PSV Eindhoven 1-0
By Tom Easterby - Newcastle United Club Reporter
Peter Beardsley believes his side thoroughly merited their Steel Park Cup triumph on Sunday after they beat PSV Eindhoven 1-0 in the tournament's deciding game.
It took a solitary goal from defender Kyle Cameron to separate the sides at the home of Corby Town, less than 24 hours after the Magpies had beaten the hosts 3-0 in their opening game.
The team Beardsley sent out against the Dutch side had a somewhat more experienced spine to it, and his charges responded by carving out a glut of opportunities.
And while he admitted that their profligacy at times was a source of frustration, Beardsley said that his side deserved to bring the trophy back to Tyneside after a positive weekend.
"We deserved to win it, there's no doubt about it. In the first half they were excellent, and the only frustration was that we didn't score more," he told nufc.co.uk.
"I know we keep saying there are great saves and things like that, but some of them were poor misses in my opinion.
"Once we scored the goal, probably like most teams, we sat back and almost settled for that, but we should, in my opinion have got a second and a third, because you're always vulnerable at the very end when they're bumping it forward.
"But generally, it's been a good weekend."
The standard of football his 24-man squad played over the course of the two days in Corby pleased the Newcastle legend.
And he said that he would continue to encourage his youngsters to play attacking football after they showed their qualities at both ends over the weekend.
"They played really, really well. Some of the football, the movement and the chances we created (against PSV) were excellent," said United's football development manager. "I actually said to them at half time 'you could come a cropper here, because you've played so well and haven't scored, and it could go against you'.
That's football, we've seen it when a team has ten, 15, 20 chances and don't score, and then the other team go up the other end and score.
"That worried me, but fair play to them - they got what they deserved over the weekend.
"In the four games we've played in pre-season so far we've scored 12 goals and conceded one - I sound like an anorak now - but the game's about scoring goals and entertaining and that's what we try and do."
Photograph courtesy of www.kappasport.co.uk.