Silsby delighted to make impact from the bench

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The winger scored twice to help the under-21s beat Millwall in the Premier League Cup.

Luke Nicoli

2026-11-12T06:00+00:00

Tyler Silsby has now got eight goals for the under-21s this season.📸Simon Roe.

Two-goal Tyler Silsby was delighted with his impact from the bench as Albion’s U21 side beat Millwall 3-1 in the Premier League Cup.

The left winger found himself in the rare position of being named among the substitutes at the Den on Tuesday as a more defensively-minded side started the game, but he produced the perfect response following his second-half introduction, assisting George Munday for the opener before netting two superb individual strikes to put the game beyond the Lions’ reach.

“When I came on, I just wanted to be myself and try to impact the game,” he said. “For my first goal, the ball dropped to me on the edge of the box and I just thought, ‘Why not?’ I saw there was a crowd, so there’d be a chance, and obviously it went in.

“The second was similar and I knew that when I drove across the box there'd be bodies, so I just reversed it and it went in.”

Delight for Tyler Silsby and his teammates after they regained the lead against Millwall with his first of two goals. 📸 Simon Roe

The 18-year-old has now taken his tally to eight for the season, along with two assists, and is delighted to have added goals to his undoubted trickery and wing play.

“I always back myself with the tricks, but obviously you've got to have an end product,” he added. “Coming into this season I knew I had to get the numbers up in terms of goals to catch the eye, especially among the people who aren't watching a game, and hopefully I'm doing that.

“I try to spend five or ten minutes after training every day just working on my shooting, and hopefully it will continue to pay off.”

While he’s been in and around the under-21s for the best part of a year, Silsby is still a first-year professional. However, given his trajectory, there’s certainly a chance he could follow his contemporaries who have been called into the first-team set-up on occasions this season.

“You want to play for the first team, that’s the ultimate target, but there's no rush,” he said. “I’ve already had the chance to train with the first team; that’s the great thing about this club, that you get those opportunities, and it’s all about showing the coach that you can produce what he wants from you.

“But on a day-to-day, I obviously work with Shan [head coach Shannon Ruth], who is top with us, so it’s all about continuing to listen to him, and to Jase [Jason McCarthy] and the other coaches, then hopefully I'll get there one day.”