Crewe Youth 3 Wolves Youth 2 (Hemmings2)

Wolves' youth team were left ruing three defensive errors that gave Crewe a commanding lead 25 minutes into the game.

The first goal was conceded five minutes in when the visitors failed to clear a corner and a Crewe striker scored from six yards out.

The lead was doubled on ten minutes - a ball over the top of the Wolves defence finding an Alex front man who slotted home from 20 yards.

A third error saw the damaged compounded with another goal for the Railwaymen on 25 minutes.

Wolves battled hard to get back into the game and, on 35 minutes, Alex Melbourne won possession and crossed to Ashley Hemmings (pictured) who headed home from short range.

Coach John Perkins made two changes at half time, and Wolves started the new period well with Kyle Bennett seeing a shot go narrowly wide after a good run.

But Wolves had to wait until the 75^th minute to make the pressure pay. John Dunleavy crossed from the right and Hemmings got his second headed goal of the game.

It was one-way traffic for the remainder of the match, with Bennett, Marcel Tulloch and Hemmings all going close to getting the equaliser. But Crewe held on to take home all three points.

Perkins says: "We were much improved in the second half but the first period was a lesson in just how costly individual errors can be."