Everton's Under 21's In The EFL Trophy

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ForeverBlue92 said:
Bit of a farce when you have 40 year old Oumar Niasse prancing around the pitch.
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...I actually think there’s too much age restricted football. This competition gives youngsters the welcome opportunity to play with and against seasoned professionals. It’s exactly what they need in terms of their development, and if you read Unsworth’s post-match comments, Niasse is clearly looked-up to by his young teammates.
 

mightymoyes said:
the what is defenders don't have to be bad at taking penalties so it was just a pointless dig at unsworth
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I despise Unsworth. Only interested in his own CV, negative dour boring manger. Who constantly picks 8/9 defenders every week. Niasse playing is also a disgrace. When we have young forwards who need to grow.

He picked niasse because he wanted to make sure we got through, same with picking charsley. Not one player has kicked on under his coaching. And I’m glad Gordon is with the first team now. let’s hope Onyango moves up quickly or Unsworth is moved on.
 
Stephenlloyd said:
I despise Unsworth. Only interested in his own CV, negative dour boring manger. Who constantly picks 8/9 defenders every week. Niasse playing is also a disgrace. When we have young forwards who need to grow.

He picked niasse because he wanted to make sure we got through, same with picking charsley. Not one player has kicked on under his coaching. And I’m glad Gordon is with the first team now. let’s hope Onyango moves up quickly or Unsworth is moved on.
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He picked Niasse because he would have been told to pick Niasse. Dont rate Unsworth for the reason you've given, no developed players. However when you see a player like Niasse playing here its because he's been told to be getting some minutes. Possible move in Jan, making sure hes fit to sell or loan out. Maybe just the fact we are paying him £60k a week and he would help the u23's go through in a competition to get some prize money, if only small would be useful money to the academy.
 
Unsworth certainly polarises opinions. I have a mixture of positive/ negative thoughts on last night. Firstly it was a great result achieved by using about four different combinations, 3 at the back , a four at the back, 3 in midfield with 1 striker , 4 in midfield with 2 strikers. It takes good coaching to get youngsters to adapt to the discipline needed to do this. Oumar was given a run out , no more , no less I doubt it was a deliberate ploy to win the game. I don’t particularly like Charsley playing, but can see the logic of playing an experienced U23s player in the context of balancing out the less experienced Onyango and John. Those two were very positive selections.
I would have liked to see John getting more game time, may have been injured of course , but bringing on the defensive mid Denny so soon was a negative for me. Bringing on Simms was a positive, and the tiring Onyango needed to be subbed but then bringing on the defender Joe Anderson was a negative.
I would have loved Dobbin to have got a run out ( instead of Anderson) , his pace would have troubled them and he would have got a lot out of playing competitively alongside Oumar . A front three of Oumar, Dobbin and Simms would have been a very positive statement that we wanted to win the game not just hold what we’ve got. We still would have had three defensive mids to protect the defence.
It’s sad and frustrating that only at u18 level do our teams play without inhibition and can comeback and win a game they are losing , so the frustration is that we missed an opportunity to start getting that winning mindset into our U23s. But overall a good result and more positives than negatives.
 

Stephenlloyd said:
I despise Unsworth. Only interested in his own CV, negative dour boring manger. Who constantly picks 8/9 defenders every week. Niasse playing is also a disgrace. When we have young forwards who need to grow.

He picked niasse because he wanted to make sure we got through, same with picking charsley. Not one player has kicked on under his coaching. And I’m glad Gordon is with the first team now. let’s hope Onyango moves up quickly or Unsworth is moved on.
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Players do develop under unsworth, the problem arises when they start training with the first team, it's then they don't kick on further. That's down to the absolutely rubbish managers we've had, from martinez, koeman, fat sam and silva.
 
The Leasing.com Trophy Round Two Draw will take place this Saturday, live on Soccer Saturday from 2pm.

32 Teams are involved in Round Two of the comp with the draw split into Northern and Southern sections.
The winner of each group will be drawn at home and will play a runner-up of a group from the same region, but not from the same group they competed in from Round One.

After tonights game Between Burton and Mansfield,Burton needing to win by 3 goals to end the group top,Burton lost 2-1 home to Mansfield and it was Mansfield who took the 2nd spot
If i did this right,Everton will be home to either Scunthorpe,Tranmere, Bolton, Wolves, Doncaster, Oldham or Fleetwood,Shrewsbuty or Macclesfield

Round Two – week commencing 2 December 2019
Round Three – week commencing 6 January 2020
Quarter-Finals – week commencing 20 January 2020
Semi-Finals - week commencing 17 February 2020
Leasing.com Trophy Final - Sunday 5 April 2020
 
mightymoyes said:
Players do develop under unsworth, the problem arises when they start training with the first team, it's then they don't kick on further. That's down to the absolutely rubbish managers we've had, from martinez, koeman, fat sam and silva.
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Develop into third division players mostly.
 

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