Manchester United’s Rhys Bennett helped Fleetwood Town to an important 2-1 league victory over MK Dons.
The Youth Cup winning centre back played a vital role in his side’s 2-0 away win against Salford City at the weekend and was also crucial to The Cods picking up another very handy three points at home last night.
The away side dominated the ball with 73% possession but they were only able to get off four shots on goal in the entire game.
After being omitted from the starting line up over Christmas, Bennett has made a return to the first eleven in the new year and started alongside James Bolton in a back two.
He played the entire 90 minutes and Sofascore gave him a score of 6.7 for his evening’s work.
Bennett was not called upon as much as he was over the weekend but the 21 year old was still able to make five important clearances to keep the Dons at bay.
The defender also made two interceptions in the game but he was not required to make any tackles.
He also did not have his best night in duels as he failed to win his only ground battle and only won two out of five aerial contests.
Due to his side’s low possession statistics, he had little time on the ball but what he did have, he used well.
He made 10 out of 13 pass attempts for an accuracy of 77% and completed two out of his four long ball attempts.
There was nothing he could do about MK Don’s consolation goal either as it was a long range effort that found the bottom corner of Jay Lynch’s net.
Bennett will be delighted with the second consecutive win and also the valuable minutes in the first team.
The Fishermen will host Carlisle United on Saturday afternoon hoping a third consecutive win could take them into the top half of League Two.
United striker, Joe Hugill, recently moved to Carlisle so it will be interesting to see if Bennett will be tested against his fellow academy product at Highbury Stadium at the weekend.
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Alex Browne
Alex is a huge Manchester United fan, inspired by greats of his homeland such as George Best, Harry Gregg and Norman Whiteside. Proud owner of such niche shirts such as Kleberson, Eric Djemba-Djemba and Gary Neville. Grew up pretending to be Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the back garden, with little success.
