Everton Youth Teams Thread

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That was our downfall , outnumbered in midfield first half , Oliyawola is a talented 15 year old but not a patch yet on what Armstrong would have given .
Then they had 9 behind the ball 2nd half., when I thought we created enough chances to get an equaliser, so I don’t agree with this “ they outplayed us” . People tend to go overboard whenever the youth team lose , we lost to a team who tracked back , defended well and ran their socks off .

Yeah i don't think we were outplayed at all. It was 90 minutes of attack vs defence and on pretty much any other night Graham puts away one of his 6 gilt edged chances and we win confortably. They did put bodies on the line and work hard though.

The game was lost by our 4-2-4 and then 4-1-5! Formations just completely losing the midfield battle and not having any real semblance of play outside of clipping balls over the top.

Hard to say whether it's Wally Hall having a smaller pitch or the absence of Baines/Armstrong but it just wasn't clicking enough.