Everton U21s 4 – 1 Lower Breck
Everton U21s secured a convincing victory over Lower Breck to win the Liverpool Senior Cup for a record 47th time in a club history extending back over 140 years.
Everton U21s lifted the Liverpool Senior Cup for the first time in 9 years with a superb 4-1 victory over Lower Breck at Walton Hall Park on Tuesday evening.
With less than a minute on the clock, there was a dreadful giveaway in midfield when Gomez passed straight to an opponent and Lower Breck surged forward, powering past the Everton defenders when Ramon Dixon seemed to run across Fraser Barnsley and they both allowed the striker to slip in a shocking early goal.
There were a few more long range efforts from the visitors before Paul Tait’s side tightened their grip on the game, Boakye missing a big chance to equalize from a cross by Dixon after Sherif missed the header on at the near post. Sherif was then put through by Welch but could only fire across goal from the narrowing angle.
It took The Blues most of the first half to recover fully and get on the scoresheet with an equlizer 2 minutes before half-time break, netting four times without reply through four different scorers to round off the season with silverware.
Kingsford Boakye (44′) got the important equaliser on the stroke of half-time when he gpt on the end of a cross that SHerif had headed on, converting athe near post.
Aled Thomas then picked out Martin Sherif (46′) who made no mistake with his header at the far post to put the home side in front straight after the break.
Following a quadrouple substiution after the hour mark, George Morgan (68′) finished off a nice move that saw Bates play in Gomez down the left who crossed first time to Sherif at the far post and that set up the goal from 1 yard out.
A clever lobbed cross almost caught out Barnsley when it smacked the face of the bar above his head before Gomez slid in rather hard and was shown a second yellow card.
Despite being down to 10 men, Issac Heath released Braiden Graham (87′) down the left and he danced his way past two defenders and slotted in the last goal that would seal the win and cap off an impressive second-half team performance.
You can watch the full game on this YouTube link.
Everton U21s: Barnsley, Dixon (61′ Graham), Thomas, Onyango (61′ Morgan 17), Welch, Samuels-Smith, Beaumont-Clark (61′ Heath), Bates [Y:45+1′] (75′ J Patterson), Sherif, Gomez [Y:??’;YR:82′], Boakye (61′ Finney).
Subs not Used: Lukjanciks, Davis.