Promise By Jonathan Williams Helps Overshadow Crystal Palace Southampton

Everybody wants to be held at Crystal Palace, Jonathan Williams, wraps precocious talent have been destroyed. The club can not enjoy the Carling Cup quarter-finals after briefly deflated optimism about the performance of Southampton, who, having raised only sporadically, and finally illuminating the last talented teenager ranked outside the hosts' . Williams has really blown the lid.

Williams has recently upgraded to the first team this season and signed a new long term contract with the club that nurtured him, attach it to the palace until 2014. Already a member Gary Speed ​​senior team in Wales, the 18-year serve notice of his talent on a regular basis and have the ability to inspire.

It was one of her most quiet, but not created the first goal of the tie, slipped into Darren Ambrose inside the penalty area and won the penalty that ensures progress. "The first was a fantastic race small, and the second a young people back into the box and is dangerous," said the director of the Palace, Dougie Freedman. "I expected that the impact so far this season. His temperament is good and play the game intelligently. This is a wonderful young man with a good attitude."

Both sides can be proud of the talent conveyor generated in their academies. Southampton won the 16-year-old James Ward-Prowse debut here, among the 10 changes over the weekend and said, all quiet confidence in the midfield role deep with a quality evident in the distribution and knowledge. There were three development actors in the bank, Ben Reeves and his team.

But both are fretting about the implications of the recently approved performance plan for the elite player, which can lead to raw talent is easily taken out of the top-flight clubs, is their creation.

"We have a long-term, and would try to get 50% of the players on our team to come through the ranks," said Nigel Adkins. "We are fully committed to the youth set in Southampton. This philosophy will not change.

"James was very safe, and I'm glad we played 90 minutes. You want to have an entry in the first team, and James and a number of players in our development process with the elderly and to benefit from a contact regularly with older people. "

His players monopolize the possession, but that was rounded at the door, their best chance lighted range of Jonathan Strong, leaving them the opportunity to benefit from the Palace. During the quarter-finals of this competition for the first time in nine years, and the young talent carrying a team, this corner of south London can afford to be optimistic again.

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