WOLVES RESERVES 3 (Vokes 38, Bia Mujangi 76, Keogh 81)
STOKE CITY RESERVES 1 (Moult 78)

A youthful City side fell to a 3-1 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Barclays Premier Reserve League South.

Wolves had included eight first teamers in the line-up whilst only Andrew Davies and Matthew Lund had begun the season as pros for the Potters.

Academy hotshot Louis Moult, who has only recently signed his first contract with the Club, scored again but it proved to be little more than a consolation.

Sam Vokes had broken the deadlock for the Wanderers with a deflected 25 yarder before Geoffrey Bia Mujangi made it 2-0 with a superb long range effort.

Moult had put Stoke back in with a chance immediately after but Andy Keogh ended any chances of a comeback with Wolves' third nine minutes from time.

It was still a good battling performance from the lads in red and white though with several of the side having already been involved in two Under 18's matches during the last few days.

The hosts had begun the game brightly and Keogh threatened to open the scoring as early as the eighth minute when he weaved his way beyond several tackles down the right before Lund broke up his run forward with an excellent challenge on the edge of the area.

Bia Mujangi then had a great chance to score from close range but he fluffed his shot in the six yard box following a low cross from the right.

Keogh was again involved in the thick of the action on 20 minutes when he latched onto a long punt forward. The former Scunthorpe United man managed to control the high ball well but skewed his shot wide of Dave Parton's left hand post.

Zack Foster did drill a powerful shot just wide of the post at the other end shortly after though, as the Potters looked for a goal of their own.

However it was Wolves who were to finally break the deadlock with less than ten minutes of the first half remaining, but it would come through very fortunate circumstances.

Vokes received the ball in the centre of the pitch and sent a hopeful shot towards goal which took a wicked deflection off Rodney McDonald to wrong-foot Parton and find the back of the net.

One almost became two shortly before half-time when Bia Mujangi cut inside from the right wing to fire goalwards but Parton got down well to make the save.

The second half continued in much a similar vein as first Bia Mujangi fired narrowly over from a quickly taken Keogh free kick before Andrew Surman crashed a strike against the crossbar following a deep cross from the right.

On the hour mark Parton pulled off another good save when he palmed Bia Mujangi's low shot around the far post after the hosts had broke away from a Stoke corner.

Nenad Milijas, who proved to be a threat for the first team in the game at the Britannia Stadium earlier in the season, then unleashed a venomous shot from 30 yards out that crashed against the post with Parton beaten.

Bia Munjangi was on hand to poke home the rebound but the assistant referee's flag was already up to deny him the goal.

The Belgian would eventually get on the scoresheet but he would have to produce a goal of great quality in order to do so.

Initial neat footwork gave him time to pirouette around an oncoming challenge before firing an unstoppable strike beyond the keeper to double Wolves' advantage.

The Potters continued to battle away though and got themselves back into the game almost immediately when good work from Nick Jackson down the right culminated in a ball into the box for Moult.

He brought down the cross well before sidestepping Richard Stearman and finishing clinically past Aaron McCarey.

But just when it looked as though the visitors were coming back into the game, a disputed free kick was given on the left flank after Matthew Cohen was adjudged to have obstructed Bia Munjangi.

Greg Halford drilled the proceeding ball low into the box where Keogh got among a clutch of players to convert a third goal from close range.

City did pursue another as the game drew to a close with McCarey somehow denying Alexander at the death with a point blank save after the substitute striker had connected to Moult's left wing cross.

WOLVES (4-5-1): McCarey; Halford, Stearman, Dunleavy (c), Reckord; Keogh, Edwards, Surman, Milijas, Bia Mujangi; Vokes. Subs (Not Used): Spray, Mendez Long, Winnall, Forde, Griffiths.

CITY (4-5-1): Parton; Cohen, Davies (c), McDonald, Wint; Mitchell, Jackson, Lund, Nicholls, Foster (Alexander 59); Moult. Subs (Not Used): Harrison, Hedley, Stockhall, Sinclair.