Youth Team/Cup

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Jones goes close again but their keeper tips it over.

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1-1

Loose backpass by Chirivella pounced on by Muskwe, who puts it in the far corner.

[Allan]

Leicester 1 Liverpool 1

 

Pedro Chirivella gives the ball away trying to flick a pass back to a defender, the loose ball is picked up by the Leicester forward who curls beyond Kelleher into the keeper's far post.

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oh for fucks sake 2-1

last minute of the half, Wales International George Thomas unmarked on the penalty spot converts the cross from the right.

[Allan]

Leicester 2 Liverpool 1

 

Muskwe gets away down the Leicester right following a sloppy touch from Gallacher. Muskwe drives to the byline and pulls a ball back to around the penalty spot where Thomas is waiting to thump home.

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half-time 2-1

Self-inflicted deficit.

[Allan]

Halftime - Leicester 2 Liverpool 1

 

Been an open game with both keepers making a number of good saves.

 

Sloppy moments have cost us at the back, while we lack an out and out striker up top.

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Substitution : Adam Lewis on for Tony Gallacher

[Allan]

Lewis on for Gallacher. Just over 20 minutes to play.

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Chirivella shoots just wide from 20 yards.

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Neco Williams on for Hoever

[Allan]

Neco Williams on for Hoever. 10+ minutes to go.

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Well then 2-2!

Jones runs on to a cross from Lewis and Longstaff pokes in the rebound, in the 5th minute of stoppage time.

Full time 2-2.

[Allan]

Leicester 2 Liverpool 2

 

A wicked cross from Lewis on the left is touched back across goal by Curtis Jones, and Longstaff is on hand to poke over the line from a yard or so.

[Allan]

Full time - Leicester 2 Liverpool 2

 

A good open game. Sloppy play cost us defensively and a lack of a proper striker really did hurt us.

 

Unless O'Rourke is injured, I'm very surprised that he was not at least on the bench.

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O'Rourke is said to be injured, that's why he didn't go to Italy.

Several of tonight's team have played themselves into contention for Wednesday's game (the one at Fleetwood in the Checkatrade, not the League Cup one...)

[sir roger]

Can I ask our two youth correspondents how the 4 lads ( Hoever, Larouci, Van Den Berg, Elliott ) talked of as possible first-team fill-ins have been showing up in the early weeks of the season ?

[Allan]

2 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Can I ask our two youth correspondents how the 4 lads ( Hoever, Larouci, Van Den Berg, Elliott ) talked of as possible first-team fill-ins have been showing up in the early weeks of the season ?

Hoever is the most likely to make a first team squad for me, but all 4 lads have shown their inexperience in the early stages of the season.

 

Sepp & Harvey have had their moments, but both are still finding their feet at the club. Van den Berg needs more time to adjust to the physical side of the game here, while Elliott just needs to play more, though he is striking up a decent understanding with Curtis Jones.

 

Larouci has had a couple of niggles early doors and the step from 18s to 23s has seen him exposed a little more defensively.

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I like Larouci, but he's not ready yet defensively, as Dynamite says. Also he got kicked off the field at Napoli midweek.

Elliott is years away from being ready to contribute, I expect he'll be on the bench against Franchise FC on Wednesday, which is a tribute to the skills of his agent.

Hoever looks okay when we're in possession and had probably his best game for us at Napoli, in a back five - not really relevant in a first-team context, though.

I've found van den Berg under-whelming so far, although he may look better next to a more senior partner.

[sir roger]

Thanks gents , will be interesting to see how they develop, but does make the posters who were insisting we should be selling Lovren as these lads could cover seem like they were expecting a bit too much from them.

[Allan]

2 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Thanks gents , will be interesting to see how they develop, but does make the posters who were insisting we should be selling Lovren as these lads could cover seem like they were expecting a bit too much from them.

A good portion of the time it's hard to really judge young players until they are thrown into the deep end. Some players need it to bring the best out of them. Being surrounded by better players can only be a good thing.

 

Been interesting to see that young Leighton Clarkson has been up training with the first team for the past fortnight or so. Usually lads come up from the Academy for a week at a time, but Leighton is having an extended run. He and Jake Cain have looked really promising at the under 18 level so far this season and all of last.

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Under-18s vs. Middlesborough, 12.30, LFCTV :

 

Ojrzynski: Walls, Beck, Savage, Koumetio, Cain, Hill, Brookwell, Norris, Stewart, O'Rourke.

 

Subs : Winterbottom, Quansah, Corness, Morton, Bradley.

 

Looks like 4-4-fucking-2

 

Yeah, I'm still sticking with "I was told O'Rourke wasn't fit to go away for the Napoli game".

[Allan]

15 minutes ago, alles ist gut said:

Under-18s vs. Middlesborough, 12.30, LFCTV :

 

Ojrzynski: Wall, Beck, Savage, Koumetio, Cain, Hill, Brookwell, Norris, Stewart, O'Rourke.

 

Subs : Winterbottom, Quansah, Corness, Morton, Bradley.

 

Yeah, I'm still sticking with "I was told O'Rourke wasn't fit to go away for the Napoli game".

Ha!

 

Looking forward to seeing the young keeper. He's been in and around the first team training set up since he came in.

 

Also, Niall Brookwell is worth keeping an eye on too. Really like what I've seen of him. Just a pity it's been in the odd game here and there since the start of last season. The lad hasn't had a good run in the side as he's always seemed to pick up little injuries.

 

Interesting that there's no Clarkson today. One for the League Cup squad against MK perhaps?

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The other possibility is that Clarkson is being held back to play in the Checkatrade in place of Elliott. I like Brookwell too, I'm glad that the powers-that-be have stopped their attempts to make him the skinniest central defender in England, and I've always been in favour of having at least one midfielder tall enough to challenge for opposition goal kicks.

[Allan]

4 minutes ago, alles ist gut said:

The other possibility is that Clarkson is being held back to play in the Checkatrade in place of Elliott. I like Brookwell too, I'm glad that the powers-that-be have stopped their attempts to make him the skinniest central defender in England, and I've always been in favour of having at least one midfielder tall enough to challenge for opposition goal kicks.

Possibly. Perhaps with Clarkson training with the first team for the past couple of weeks I'm getting a little ahead of myself.