Everton U21s lose at Bristol City in Premier League Cup
Bristol City U21s 2 - 1 Everton U21s
The Premier League Cup enters its knock-out phase with Everton U21s unable to beat their Bristol City counterparts today at Robins High Performance Centre.
Bristol City topped Group E with wins against Sheffield United, Crystal Palace and Newcastle Utd, thus earning home advantage in today's Round of 16 clash.
The Young Blues' form has been impacted by a season of constant change and evolution, with the recent departures of Tom Cannon on loan while Joe Anderson and Seb Quirk have made permanent moves to Sunderland and Accrington Stanley respectively.
Also, long-term injuries to McAllister and Whitaker have been a blow, while Mills and Price have missed games presumably through the need to support the first-team squad. Djankpata has also played no games so far this year – presumably injured, while Butterfield, Iversen and Mallon have made stuttering returns to the squad after long-term injuries.
Even so, Paul Tait is able to field a pretty strong team, although Jack Barrett makes a very rare start in goal… and the Blues are behind inside just 2 minutes. And they concede a second inside 10 minutes.
The Everton lads were able to steady the ship somewhat with no further damage until half-time, and got back into the reckoning with a goal from Francis Okoronkwo a few minutes after the restart.
But the Young Blues were unable to secure an equalizer in the second half and crashed out of this season's Premier League Cup.
Everton U21s: Barrett, Higgins, Hunt, John (76' O Samuels-Smith), Campbell, I Samuels-Smith, Heath, Iversen [Y:18'] (27' Bates), Okoronkwo, Apter (76' Beaumont-Clark), Kouyate [Y:15'].
Subs not Used: Leban, Mallon.
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2 Posted 05/02/2023 at 11:52:08
3 Posted 05/02/2023 at 12:57:19
Huh... and they just switched the kick-off to 1 pm.
4 Posted 05/02/2023 at 13:40:06
They seem to have steadied the ship but Iversen has been subbed after just 27 minutes – hope for him it's not an injury; may be tactical as he and Kouyate were both booked early on – hopefully for showing bite and aggression!
5 Posted 05/02/2023 at 13:41:15
6 Posted 05/02/2023 at 14:04:25
Great video, thanks, Dennis!
7 Posted 05/02/2023 at 16:44:34
8 Posted 06/02/2023 at 14:49:37
Incidentally, the golf club you can see from some of the drone shots is Long Ashton where I used to be a member. Only a few miles outside the city centre. They had to re-route one of the pars 3s and build a new green to stop hackers slicing and shanking balls on to City's practice pitches!
The other sports pitches visible belong to my sons' former school who, as you can imagine, had the best footy facilities around when sharing groundsmen with BCFC.
Their best ex-pupil is Joe Bryan who transferred from Bristol City to Fulham, scored the goal to get them into the Premier League then hasn't had a look in since with the emergence of Anthonee Robinson!
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1 Posted 05/02/2023 at 10:56:56