16-year-old Harry Amass named among Manchester United substitutes against Liverpool in Premier League

Harry Amass has earlier trained with the first team

Harry Amass has been added to Manchester United’s starting lineup for this afternoon’s match against Liverpool. In February, 16-year-old Harry Amass, a defender, participated in first-team training with Manchester United.

After playing with the Hornets since he was nine years old, Amass moved to United from Championship team Watford over the summer. This season, the left-back has been a constant for Adam Lawrence’s U18 team.

Additionally, on Wednesday at Carrington, the teenager trained with the first team alongside fellow academy talents Toby Collyer and Sam Mather. This season, United’s U18s have won 14 of their 14 Premier League North games. According to the Guardian, Amass is considered one of their best promising prospects.

United is ‘confident’ that players like Amass, Jayce Fitzgerald, and Shea Lacey, a winger, can follow in the paths of recent youth alumni Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo, who have become frequent visitors in the first squad, according to the article.

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Amass achieved a youth competition with the U16s this past year and has also represented England at the age group level. The teenage athlete told Watford’s website in March of last year, “Playing with the best players in the country was a great experience and it improves my game.”

“It’s a great challenge. In the first game we played against Cyprus, which was in their home country and we won 3-0. The next game felt like a derby because England v Scotland has a lot of history to it.

“It was a really good game that we won 3-0 again, and there was a big crowd. We played Denmark in the final game, and a win for either team would be enough to win the trophy so it felt like a final, and we won 1-0!

“It’s a great challenge. In the first game we played against Cyprus, which was in their home country and we won 3-0. The next game felt like a derby because England v Scotland has a lot of history to it.

“It was a really good game that we won 3-0 again, and there was a big crowd. We played Denmark in the final game, and a win for either team would be enough to win the trophy so it felt like a final, and we won 1-0!

Amass never played for Watford at the senior level, but he did sit on the bench during their FA Cup third-round loss to Reading the previous year. He said, “The first-team encounter was surreal.”

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