Northampton Town's youth team were in action away at Queen's Park Rangers on Saturday as they continued their campaign in the Football League Youth Alliance.

The Cobblers led at half-time through a Wes Emery goal but QPR turned things round in the second half and went on to win the game 2-1 with their winner coming in the last few minutes.

"I was absolutely delighted with the lads performance and I was just gutted for them that we didn't take something from the game," said youth team coach Sean Parrish.

"The players work rate, effort and commitment was excellent and we played some very good football at times as well.

"We were 1-0 up at the break but QPR started the second half strongly and got it back to 1-1. After that though we had some good chances ourselves to get a second but unfortunately we didn't take any of our chances and they scored a late goal.

"For the effort that the lads put in we certainly deserved to take something from the game but that's football and we just have to dust ourselves down from this result and continue to work hard.

"The lads have set themselves a standard with this performance and they now need to try and maintain that level of performance."

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