The place many felt the subsequent objective might flip the sport in a single route or the opposite, Nordsjaelland discovered it, as Nene scored from a nook simply six minutes into the second interval.
The Malian striker sought his hat-trick when taking pictures direct from a free-kick quickly after, however his over the crossbar.
A triple United substitution introduced vibrant moments from Amir Ibragimov — who netted his first U21s objective on this floor again in November — and a few good assaults. However the sport’s rhythm was disrupted when Ashton Missin was stretchered off after a muscle damage 70 minutes in.
Finley McAllister, launched an hour in, performed a wonderful through-ball from defence which break up your complete visiting group and allowed Obi to run at Lykke within the Nordsjaelland objective. He completed nicely when one-on-one to provide United a foothold within the sport. Minutes later, with United buoyant, he couldn’t fairly join with a left-wing cross from Harry Amass.
Amass fed Obi as soon as extra to go away the 17-year-old ahead one-on-one with Lykke once more, however he was adjudged to have fouled Nordsjaelland’s extra senior captain Erik Marxen. United had been unable to search out extra clear-cut probabilities earlier than the sport’s finish.