Youth Team/Cup

[alles ist gut]

Teixeira looking good again. Bench for Norwich?

Well, sooner him than Cissokho, anyway...

[alles ist gut]

Halftime 1-0.

[Allan]

Halftime, Everton 0 Liverpool 1.

 

Jordan Lussey's clever little header separates the sides.

 

Not the best of games, certainly not helped by the bobbly pitch. We've been the better side without having to do too much.

[kalasoma]

Did they sign Gueye mainly for use in this fixture. Like a James Vaughan replacement? Don't they usually wheel out Vellios for this as well?

 

I read somewhere Vellios went out on loan?

[alles ist gut]

I read somewhere Vellios went out on loan?

He seems to be at Blackpool.

[kalasoma]

Don't seem to be attacking much and the Everton players are keeping us in our own half.

[alles ist gut]

Game getting scrappy.

[kalasoma]

Was wondering when the cards were coming out.

[kalasoma]

I think that lad Green was the best player for them. Put in a few telling crosses into the box, but Duffus couldn't really make use of them.

[alles ist gut]

Chasing the game, Alan Stubbs puts on a 3rd central defender. BWAAAAAK!

[MLB]

Jones, Rossiter and Teixiera have all been good here.

[alles ist gut]

And another yellow card for a foul on Teixeira.

[kalasoma]

Everton equalise. I think that was coming.

[alles ist gut]

And the equaliser comes.

[Allan]

Everton are level, and in fairness it's no more than they deserve. Good cross from Gueye out on the right is stabbed home from very close range.

[kalasoma]

That should be our free-kick. Dunn was impeded as we were trying to attack the goal. Ref gave it to the Everton defender.

[alles ist gut]

And full time 1-1.

[Pidge]

Awful pitch, awful ref, awful game.

 

Tex has been kicked all over the place. By far the best player on the pitch though.

[Allan]

Fulltime, Everton 1 Liverpool 1.

 

Forgettable game. Everton the better team in the second half and they got the goal that their improvement warranted.

 

We were poor going forward in the second half.

[kalasoma]

In the few matches I've seen, the boys have played much better. But we ceded a lot of possession towards the end of the first half and then much of the second.

[Gym Beglin]

How many of the team are going to 'make it'?

[Ne Moe Imya]

I don't think there's anyone that's nailed on in the way that Sterling was a few years ago in the current U21 squad (Rossiter is close), but there's a good few that should get a chance and I would guess two or three will stick with the first team eventually.  Wouldn't want to guess which ones that might be, but I would think Rossiter has the best chance, and then there's a group of players like Brannagan, Smith, Lussey, Trickett-Smith, and Sinclair who you'd think will get a chance at some point to get some first team minutes.

 

Chirivella might be better than all of them but he's only just stepped up to the U21s so it's a bit early to make that call.  He's very highly rated, though.

 

Some of the best ones who are at the level of those I've mentioned are out on loan: Ibe, Mclaughlin, Robinson, etc.  I actually think the current U18s are more likely to produce a bigger number of eventual first teamers.  Wilson for me is almost nailed on, and there are good number of others in that side with an excellent chance to go all the way. 

[nando1000]

Everton v U21s | 11 mins highlights

http://youth.lfc.vn/everton-u21s-s14/

[Ronnie Whelan]

I don't think there's anyone that's nailed on in the way that Sterling was a few years ago in the current U21 squad (Rossiter is close), but there's a good few that should get a chance and I would guess two or three will stick with the first team eventually.  Wouldn't want to guess which ones that might be, but I would think Rossiter has the best chance, and then there's a group of players like Brannagan, Smith, Lussey, Trickett-Smith, and Sinclair who you'd think will get a chance at some point to get some first team minutes.

 

Chirivella might be better than all of them but he's only just stepped up to the U21s so it's a bit early to make that call.  He's very highly rated, though.

 

Some of the best ones who are at the level of those I've mentioned are out on loan: Ibe, Mclaughlin, Robinson, etc.  I actually think the current U18s are more likely to produce a bigger number of eventual first teamers.  Wilson for me is almost nailed on, and there are good number of others in that side with an excellent chance to go all the way. 

Who else on the u18s do you reckon? Kent and O'Hanlon look fairly hand to me.

[Ne Moe Imya]

I really, really like Ojo, but I'm willing to admit he's one that could easily go either way.  When he's on his game, he's almost unstoppable.  He could turn into the next Yaya Toure, he could be a poor man's Reus, or he could end up in League One.  Depends entirely on his desire, in my opinion; if he works hard, he will end up as a top player.  Not sure on what position or what kind of player he will be in the end, but there is definitely an excellent player in there somewhere just waiting to come out.  If he can put together some consistency he will definitely be a first team contender.

 

The other one you didn't mention from the U18s is Canos, who struggled a bit when he first came from Barca but has been very good in the last couple of months.  Judging more from the amount of hype behind him at La Masia, he seems to be someone with a decent amount of talent.  It was actually a moment of realisation for me how much talent we have in our youth ranks when he came over with a reputation as Barca's best attacking player of that age group and then he arrives here and is comfortably outplayed by our Harry Wilson.