Youth Team/Cup

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Full time, 3-1

A good response to Monday’s effort, and hopefully the players returning from injury will have benefited from the outing.

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Lewis was very good at holding midfield.

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Match report: U18s beaten by Derby in top-of-the-table clash

 

Liverpool U18s were leapfrogged at the top of the table as a result of Derby County's 3-1 win in their U18 Premier League North meeting on Saturday.

The young Reds had rallied after falling behind to Jason Knight’s ninth-minute opener, with Bobby Duncan netting an equaliser early in the second half.

But a late double by Morgan Whittaker condemned Barry Lewtas’ side to a rare defeat and saw Derby overhaul Liverpool in the standings on goal difference.

Derby immediately got on the front foot in the game and could have opened the scoring within three minutes, but the unmarked Lee Buchanan directed his header from inside the box wide.

The home side did produce a breakthrough soon after, though.

Tyree Wilson’s pace took him past Liverpool right-back Neco Williams on the wing and his assist into the area found Knight, who took advantage of space to coolly control the ball and drive it low into Dan Atherton’s net.

Fidel O’Rourke, captaining Lewtas’ charges, went close to a rapid response but saw his chipped effort from Abdi Sharif’s ball over the top saved well by Sam French.

It was a sign of things to come, with Derby’s last line of defence offering stubborn resistance to the Reds’ eager search for an equaliser.

After Knight squandered the chance to convert a second goal from a misplaced clearance, French thwarted the visitors in a succession of opportunities.

The Derby stopper kept out Sharif’s hit from distance and later attempt from a set-piece, having palmed over Leighton Clarkson’s 30-yard free-kick in between times, to preserve the hosts’ lead at the interval.

But a leveller was coming – and it arrived three minutes into the second half.

Sharif’s defence-splitting pass freed Neco Williams on the right flank and the defender’s pinpoint cross set up centre-forward Duncan to claim his 26th goal of the season.

With the knowledge that victory would double their points advantage over Derby in U18 Premier League North, the young Reds pressed to complete a turnaround.

And only another outstanding stop by French denied them a minute before the hour mark, Elijah Dixon-Bonner’s strike from Yasser Larouci’s pull-back thwarted.

Lewtas called for Paul Glatzel and the reformation of his lethal partnership alongside Duncan with a quarter of the match remaining, and the pair soon combined to release Clarkson, whose ambitions were halted by a last-ditch tackle.

But, instead, Derby moved up a gear in the closing stages and a quickfire double deflated Liverpool.

The respite brought by Atherton’s brilliant save to deny Callum Minkley at close range was cruelly brief – two minutes later, Whittaker fired a finish beyond the goalkeeper when a set-piece was uncleared.

And the Derby No.7 increased his side’s advantage with 77 on the clock, a free-kick from the edge of the area sent through the wall and home for 3-1.

French added further salt to the wounds by pushing Clarkson’s curler from a set-piece against the post and away, ensuring the home side claimed victory and leadership of the division with a game in hand.

Liverpool U18s: Atherton, N. Williams (Walls, 69), Larouci, R. Williams, Boyes, Ritaccio (Longstaff, 76), Sharif, Clarkson, O’Rourke (Glatzel, 64), Duncan, Dixon-Bonner.

Unused substitutes: Jaros, Cain.

 

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/academy/340991-match-report-liverpool-u18s-derby-county

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Liverpool's FA Youth Cup semi-final with Watford will be played at Anfield on Sunday March 17.

The Reds progressed to the last four of the competition with a 5-1 win at Bury, having previously eliminated Portsmouth, Accrington Stanley and Wigan Athletic.

Their next task in the tournament is a tie against Watford, which has been confirmed for a 12pm GMT kick-off at Anfield this coming Sunday.

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/academy/341058-fa-youth-cup-semi-final-fixture-details-confirmed

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Liam Millar came off the bench to grab the only goal of the game for Kilmarnock in their win over St. Mirren this evening.

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The Under 19s are in action this afternoon in the UEFA Youth League. They are away in Croatia to take on Dinamo Zagreb.

 

Live coverage on BT Sport 2 from 14:00.

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UEFA.com reporting the line-up as :-

Jaros; N. Williams, Lewis, R. Williams, Boyes, Coyle, Sharif, Cain, Jones, Duncan, Glatzel.

Subs : Atherton, Larouci, Walls, Savage, Ritaccio, Clarkson, Dixon-Bonner.

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25 minutes gone, still 0-0, and we’ve not been the better team. The midfield hasn’t created enough, and Jones hasn’t got into it.

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After some off-the-ball disagreements, bookings for Coyle and Lewis, as well as one for a Zagreb player who threw himself down theatrically.

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Halftime 0-0

Ugly, bad-tempered game where we’ve had the physio on more times than we’ve had shots. Jaros has made a couple of saves.

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Jaros off, Atherton on in goal at the start of the second half.

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1-0 LFC

Great work down the right by Glatzel, cross picks out Duncan 2 yards out for the tap in.

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Dinamo 0 Liverpool 1

 

Booby Duncan with the goal. Great work down the right from Glatzel sees him get away from a group of Dinamo defenders. He's then able to square the ball across the face of goal where his strike partner is completely unmarked to tap home from close range.

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1-1

Ball in from their left finds their centre forward unmarked 10 yards out, and he lashes it past Atherton.

20 minutes left, and a worrying lack of options on the bench to change things.

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Dinamo 1 Liverpool 1

 

They work the ball from the middle of the park to the left hand side where their danger man, Antonio Marin, is given a little too much space by Neco Williams and is able to to beat the young Welshman to get to the byline before cutting the ball back into the path of the big number 9 who lashes home giving Dan Atherton no chance.

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Clarkson on for Cain. 10 minutes left.

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Clarkson on for Cain. Around 8 minutes plus stoppage time to go.

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It finishes 1-1.

So, pelanties then.

 

Zagreb to go first.

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Dinamo to go first in the shootout.

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1-0 Smashed home.

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Neco Williams up.

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1-1 Neco sends the keeper the wrong way.

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Zagreb 2-1

Now Liam Coyle...and it’s saved

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2-1 Well placed pelanty. Atherton went the right way, but it was too well placed.

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Liam Coyle up now.