08-08-12: Newcastle United Reserves (h) 1-1 Thorpe Arch (HT 1-1) Crowd (?)

The Leeds starting line-up contained two trialists, one in central defence and one in midfield, but it was Dominic Poleon that gave Leeds the lead, after twenty minutes. He pressurized the keeper, Jak Alnwick, into conceding a penalty after he caught him in two minds about how to handle a back-pass and the unfortunate keeper had to foul him to prevent him from scoring. The striker took the penalty himself and confidently beat the keeper. The Magpies responded quickly, with Conor Newton bringing a decent stop from Alex Cairns after Haris Vuckic had created a chance for him. Adam Campbell was also foiled by a smart smothering save by the Leeds keeper. Newcastle fielded several first-team fringe players and three of them combined to score the Newcastle equalizer. Frenchman Mehdi Abeid, recently signed from Lens and new signing Curtis Good figured strongly, for Haris Vuckic to race onto Paul Dummett's long ball and beat the offside trap to draw Newcastle level after thirty-four minutes. Conor Newton then teed up Bradden Inman, whose effort was tipped around the post, before Alnwick more than redeemed himself for his role in the Leeds opener with three good saves before the break. Newcastle made four changes for the start of the second-half. Steven Logan came on for Alex Nicholson in midfield, defender Lubo Satka replaced Mehdi Abeid and strikers, Marcus Maddison, who came on for Yven Moyo, and JJ Hooper, who replaced Haris Vuckic. However, it was goalkeeper Jak Alnwick that made another great stop early in the second half, somehow keeping out a deflected shot which looked to be looping in. In the fiftieth minute Leeds had made a double substitution when a Trialist replaced Lewis Turner and Nathan Turner replaced another Trialist. There were a succession of quick replacements made by both sides on the hour mark. Leeds started by Ross Killock replacing Paul Connolly in Central Defence and a minute later Newcastle brought on midfielders Dennis Knight, for Michael Richardson, and Brandon Miele for Adam Campbell and two minutes later sent on defender Michael Riley for Curtis Good. Substitute JJ Hooper was ruled offside as he tapped home the rebound from Dennis Knight's shot, which had been parried by Alex Cairns, before the Leeds keeper denied Marcus Maddison after a spot of ball-juggling in the box resulted in a well-struck effort from the teenage winger. After eighty minutes Leeds made their final change as Ramon Nunez was replaced by another Trialist, leaving keeper Paul Rachubka and striker Simon Lenighan unused on the Leeds bench, while keeper Jonathan Mitchell remained on the Newcastle bench. With three minutes left, Brandon Miele's Twenty-yard curler crashed back off the angle of post and bar, but Conor Newton was well wide with his shot from the rebound and a draw was a fair result.