The Young Blues are not having a great season so far: they have won only one of their last five games, losing all the others. Paul Tait’s side have won only one of their last six games in all competitions, and tonight, they are set to face League One outfit Bradford City.
And they don’t tend to do very well against other professional league teams. In this competition;they have already lost their opening group match at Doncaster Rovers.
The match is being broadcast on Sky Sports+. The game kicks off at 7:30 pm BST.
And it was seen by the Everton hierarchy and an opportunity for some fringe players to get some match practice with Natham Patterson, Dwight McNeil and Adam Aznou in the starting line-up. On the other side, Jenson Metcalfe, formerly of this parish, who left Everton Academy last July.
But whatever experience that might have brought to proceedings, it didn’t look too smart by half-time, when the Blues had let in 4 goals.
On the hour mark and winger Joel Gatesby went down in agony, punching the grass: it looked very much like he had broken his right ankle. It was nearly 10 minutes before he was stretchered off, with Justin Clarke replacing him.
Clarke’s dangerous cross a few minutes later saw Wright play it into his own net in an effort to deny any player in Blue from scoring.
But the home side got another one 5 minutes before the end when the Blues lost possession in midfield, despite George Pickford getting a hand to it before it was bundled in. Pickford would go on to make two tremendous saves to stop a rout.
The dismal result means Everton will not progress out of this group and must still play a dead rubber against Grimsby.
Everton U21s: G Pickford, N Patterson [Y:45+1′] (90+2′ Morgan), Tamen [Y:90+5′], Thomas, Aznou, Gomez, Bates, Beaumont-Clark (79′ Finney [Y:90+13′]), McNeil, Catesby (70′ Clarke), Benjamin [Y:76′] (90+2′ Ebere).
Subs not Used: Lukjanciks, Samuels-Smith, Van Schoor.
Attendance: 4,170
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