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Everton Youth Teams Thread

Ring master said:
Everton Under-23s came from two goals down to take a point from their Premier League 2 opener at Blackburn Rovers on Monday night.

Late goals from Charlie Whitaker and Stanley Mills dragged Everton back from the brink in a thoroughly entertaining contest at Ewood Park.

Whitaker headed in from a corner with just over a quarter-of-an-hour to play before Mills hammered in an unstoppable half-volley nine minutes from time to draw the scores level.

“I’m exhausted, I feel like I’ve played myself!" smiled manager David Unsworth.

“Great credit to the players for coming back and not losing the game. We weren’t at our best tonight. We were a very young team against an older team and it makes a huge difference.

“We had six scholars playing, which is fantastic and what we want, and it took us a while to get into the pace of the game.

"Blackburn are a really good side and some of their players have been involved with their first team. It was a great test for us, physically, and we stood up to it.

“At 70 minutes, I didn’t think we’d get something from the game.”

Everton started brightly. Isaac Price made half a yard of space for himself 25 yards out in the seventh minute and unleashed a lovely curling shot that was destined for the top corner until Jordan Eastham acrobatically turned the ball behind.

From the resultant corner, Ryan Astley’s header was straight at the keeper.

Blackburn settled and enjoyed some sustained possession in the opening 20 minutes – albeit their final efforts were of little trouble to Harry Tyrer.

Eastham rescued the hosts again just after the half-hour mark when he somehow kept out an Astley header from a delightful centre by Rhys Hughes.

Hughes then squandered a chance of his own when he got underneath his effort from a Kyle John cross and sent the ball sailing over the crossbar.

At the other end, Everton were indebted to Tyrer when he dashed off his line to block an effort from Connor McBride when the Rovers midfielder was through on goal.

Blackburn opened the scoring with the last kick of the first half. McBride crashed a stoppage time free-kick from the edge of the box through the Everton wall but Tyrer reacted well to save and was unlucky to see Sam Burns prod home the loose ball.

Tyrer was also more than a touch unfortunate to concede the second goal on 63 minutes. Everton were undone by a swift counter attack and, after Tyrer had saved well from Burns, Jack Vale turned the ball into the empty net.

Everton halved the deficit in the 73rd minute when Whitaker headed home from a Hughes corner.

It was a just reward for Whitaker as he had earned the corner kick with an excellent effort that was very well saved by Eastham.

The equaliser came with nine minutes to go.

A Hughes free-kick on the right by the corner flag was headed clear but Mills lashed a stunning half-volley into the top corner of the net.

“We know that he’s got that in his locker,” said Unsworth. “It’s a fantastic strike. He can play right-back and right-midfield and we are still trying to find his best position, but we know he can finish.

“I am so delighted for all the boys and they will have learned more in those 90 minutes than in all the pre-season games put together.

"They are judged on games like this, where it matters, and at the end of the game we could have gone on and won it.”
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If Mills could be converted to right back that could be his best way to have a chance of getting into the 1st team
 
mightymoyes said:
If Mills could be converted to right back that could be his best way to have a chance of getting into the 1st team
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I think Unsworth suggests as much about Mills - that theyre not sure if his best position is right mid or right back. He’s been the surprise package this year in that he didn’t seem to figure much at u18s in the first half of pre season , maybe an injury, but has made quite an impact when he’s got his chance. I think he’s maybe better defensively than Kyle John, perhaps not as fast as John though, but has an ability to score goals too, and is more powerfully built. A versatile member of the squad, but sometimes that counts against if they don’t settle into
one position.
Edit: sorry just seen you’d highlighted that bit from Unsworth.
 

@boris

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Southampton apparently sniffing around Small.

Little Divvy turned down the chance to be part of the Rafatollah Revolution to instead potentially join a club that we just humped 3-1.
 

ForeverBlue92 said:
Southampton apparently sniffing around Small.

Little Divvy turned down the chance to be part of the Rafatollah Revolution to instead potentially join a club that we just humped 3-1.
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If he chooses Southampton he's going to play for a manager who has no qualms about playing young players, as he's shown throughout his managerial career and most lately with the lad Livramento at the weekend. It makes a lot more sense for Small to chose a club like Southampton over clubs like United, Arsenal and even Everton.

I don't condone him not turning up for training at Everton, but I have absolutely no issues in the lad not signing a professional contract with us if he feels his prospects are better elsewhere. Professional football clubs show absolutely zero loyalty to these kids and will ditch them quicker than you can say Rafael Benitez is a dinosaur. So why fans expect them to show unrequited loyalty in return is beyond me. It's their careers and futures at stake so good luck to them. They should be able to map out their own futures through clubs who provide a proper career path to the first team and a coach who is happy to trust in young players.

Southampton would be a good move for him.
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Southampton apparently sniffing around Small.

Little Divvy turned down the chance to be part of the Rafatollah Revolution to instead potentially join a club that we just humped 3-1.
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That's the thing though, he probably won't be a part of it because he has two players Infront oh him.

He's behaved like a bad little bellend not ckming to training etc, but id say he's highly likely to get a game at Southampton than he is over Lucas digne
 
Barnfred 55 said:
If he chooses Southampton he's going to play for a manager who has no qualms about playing young players, as he's shown throughout his managerial career and most lately with the lad Livramento at the weekend. It makes a lot more sense for Small to chose a club like Southampton over clubs like United, Arsenal and even Everton.

I don't condone him not turning up for training at Everton, but I have absolutely no issues in the lad not signing a professional contract with us if he feels his prospects are better elsewhere. Professional football clubs show absolutely zero loyalty to these kids and will ditch them quicker than you can say Rafael Benitez is a dinosaur. So why fans expect them to show unrequited loyalty in return is beyond me. It's their careers and futures at stake so good luck to them. They should be able to map out their own futures through clubs who provide a proper career path to the first team and a coach who is happy to trust in young players.

Southampton would be a good move for him.
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he'll play them if they're good enough, no evidence yet that small is.

hes also ruthless and put livramento in over another relatively young player walker-peters who actually looked half decent himself, so if small does go to southampton he could just as easily find himself on the road to nowhere again he probably thinks hes on here.
 

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