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.
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2 Posted 07/05/2025 at 09:57:04
Nothing less than the full 9 points from the last 3 matches — make us fans proud for a change!
3 Posted 07/05/2025 at 10:39:57
You do realise the team Everton played last night were mostly part-time Sunday League footballers who had won a final on Sunday, most probably went on the ale after that win, and then played last night?
A lot of them were getting on a bit, for footballers, and gave these Everton youngsters a good game in the first 45 minutes before tiredness took over and Everton got better and won the game!
4 Posted 07/05/2025 at 11:22:12
There's one of them pithy pundit platitudes that comes to the fore in such cases:
"You can only play what's in front of you!"
Shocking that you, a True Blue, should be looking to detract from, denigrate and devalue what was a fabulous historic win. Hang your head in shame, Mr Abrahams!
5 Posted 07/05/2025 at 11:28:20
6 Posted 07/05/2025 at 11:42:27
Mind, for more years than I can remember, it has been the Everton U18s who have played in this competition... and not done all that well.
But my records show that the the last time we did win it, in 2016, it was the U23s under the greatly maligned David Unsworth — the last Academy manager to secure any silverware.
Prescott Cables 0 - 3 Everton U23s
Definitely some agricultural stuff from Lower Breck as I'm watching the first half unfold…
7 Posted 07/05/2025 at 12:02:08
8 Posted 07/05/2025 at 12:39:39
However Dave A. is correct. It may have been boys against men, but it is hardly the dawn of a new age.
Anyway, COYB
9 Posted 07/05/2025 at 13:17:54
Saw them lift the Premier League 2 trophy too!
10 Posted 07/05/2025 at 13:21:53
11 Posted 07/05/2025 at 13:25:01
12 Posted 07/05/2025 at 13:27:34
13 Posted 07/05/2025 at 13:34:42
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
14 Posted 07/05/2025 at 13:38:17
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
15 Posted 07/05/2025 at 14:10:08
The warm up is in the Eight Bells.
16 Posted 07/05/2025 at 14:52:42
UTFT
17 Posted 07/05/2025 at 15:04:52
Rob (10) I don't know who Lower Breck played in the earlier rounds, or Liverpool for that matter, but I think The Liverpool Senior Cup finals of the last few years are of less interest to Merseyside fans than they were going back quite awhile to be honest.
I bet you were part of of 45-50,000 fans who watched those finals then including the 4-3 game at Goodison when Ian St John made his debut for Liverpool, scored a hat-trick, and finished on the losing side.
As a matter of interest, the Liverpool Senior Cup was bigger and better than the FA Cup — talking about the actual trophy, not who took part in it.
18 Posted 07/05/2025 at 15:27:38
Not related, but as we're talking U21s, a sad story.
Not in it's current guise, but Accrington have their roots as founders of the football league alongside us.
19 Posted 07/05/2025 at 15:55:21
Will there be a parade?
20 Posted 07/05/2025 at 16:53:52
I think I seem to recall a young Jimmy Gabriel scoring with a bullet of a header!
21 Posted 07/05/2025 at 17:04:24
23 Posted 07/05/2025 at 17:23:49
Back to the game and Francis Gomez is very annoyed at being shown a second yellow and a red after sliding in.
I was skipping through the video but I don't recall seeing him carded earlier. Anyone see that?
24 Posted 07/05/2025 at 17:26:27
25 Posted 07/05/2025 at 17:29:11
I was at that 4-3 game at Goodison, Mickey Lill got the winner just before full time, his second?
Trying to remember which levels/clubs it was open to then and at what point the two senior clubs came into it as they did put out first teams in those days.
26 Posted 07/05/2025 at 17:38:10
It's up there with Kenwright's "famous chairman – Everton aways get it right".
27 Posted 07/05/2025 at 17:46:27
But of course, it's goals – that's all that matters. We grabbed 'em; they didn't.
Was that Denise Barrett-Baxendale handing out the gongs at the end? Surely not…
28 Posted 07/05/2025 at 18:01:56
I never saw St John play, never mind score a hat-trick against us!!
29 Posted 07/05/2025 at 18:49:23
They won the semi-final the previous weekend when a team from near Leeds brought 500 away fans. They then won the final on Saturday, after getting home advantage in both the semi and the final, because they came 2nd in their league, behind Bury. (Good to see Bury, up and running again, after Bill Kenwright was just too late to save them!) Bury had about 6,000 spectators for their final home game when they clinched the top spot.
I was told that Lower Breck had kept the prices at £7 for these two games (semifinal and final) and my mate was telling me that when he walked past the Willowbank pub, at 11 o'clock on Saturday night, the party was in full swing, and all he could hear was the Lower Breck players singing away!
30 Posted 07/05/2025 at 19:19:30
Made up for the U21s, as I am for any Everton team. As a player, it doesn't matter what level or trophy it is. Success breeds success.
31 Posted 07/05/2025 at 19:43:21
We need an Evertonian Mayor, a megalomaniac, to declare that Liverpool will now be called Everton.
32 Posted 07/05/2025 at 19:54:24
Most Yanks I end up chatting with do not know that Everton is in Liverpool and most of the Yanks when I say that I was born and bred in Liverpool immediately think that I must support the red shite.
If my VW Golf is nearby, I point them towards my license plate where white letters against a black background shout EVERTON. I understand that EVERTON could not be a registration back home in Blighty.
33 Posted 07/05/2025 at 20:05:04
I get more traction in Germany with people recognising Everton being from the same city than I often do in our own capital.
Black smoke over the Vatican. A kopite must have been involved.
34 Posted 07/05/2025 at 20:06:07
We are stuck with little old Everton now, we will just have to produce a better team than them, that's all.
35 Posted 07/05/2025 at 20:10:46
36 Posted 07/05/2025 at 20:11:29
Well, we are in Everton but yes we are also the only team in the city. Don't get me wrong – I adore the name Everton but that was Kenwright/Denise thinking.
37 Posted 07/05/2025 at 20:40:19
Alan (25) Jimmy Fell at outside left scored 2 and I'd say Bobby Collins got another one not sure if Mickey Lill played to be honest. Not sure how many clubs entered the competition then, remember Tranmere — saw them in a couple of finals against Everton we won 4-1 at Goodison on a sunny Saturday afternoon and we beat them at Anfield 8-5 on a Friday night — that might have been because Goodison's pitch had been dug up for the undersoil heating.
Rob (28) I thought you were a very young looking and handsome 68!
38 Posted 08/05/2025 at 08:13:42
Being a West Midlands girl, she told me we spell our districts wrong.
It's "Child Wall", not "Chillwall" (as pronounced). It's "Hoyton", not "Highton" (as pronounced). I won't go there with Gate Acre (not Gat-a-cer as pronounced).
And why were Everton not in Everton. Cue a history lesson.
I also had to explain it was "Speak", not "Speck".
39 Posted 08/05/2025 at 08:26:45
Anyway, Crosby was fine for Ruth and town she loved for clothes shopping. But she was raised by her dad Hewey - not our Hewey - that scousers raided Stoke every day of the week on the rob. Seen Stoke now Hewey, Hanley especially? He collected and was a brilliant expert on Moorcroft pottery that just closed down for good last week.
Jeez Danny, if Ruth got in touch tomorrow, somehow, I'm afraid I'd leave my CA lady in a heartbeat.
40 Posted 08/05/2025 at 08:50:13
41 Posted 08/05/2025 at 09:05:54
42 Posted 08/05/2025 at 09:58:18
43 Posted 09/05/2025 at 05:02:04
44 Posted 09/05/2025 at 09:48:37
It was a cracking fairy tale though wasn’t it!
45 Posted 09/05/2025 at 10:00:24
I always preferred older girls. I used to remind the wife she cradle snatched me.
There was only 3 years in it, but I pointed out she was born in the 60s (1968), whereas I was from the 70s (1971). A decade in it!!
46 Posted 09/05/2025 at 18:00:36
47 Posted 09/05/2025 at 18:10:34
Dave A, you too? And I thought I was the love of her life. A cracking girl Ruth,perhaps I should arrange another night out in Stoke, it’s only down the road from me these days.
48 Posted 09/05/2025 at 18:21:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBe9CeuS2xI
49 Posted 09/05/2025 at 18:24:31
Just saying, like.
Keeps me fit
50 Posted 09/05/2025 at 18:48:06
51 Posted 09/05/2025 at 19:00:16
52 Posted 09/05/2025 at 19:20:23
53 Posted 09/05/2025 at 19:36:00
You into ugly fat birds as well?
APOLIGIES... I just couldn't resist.
54 Posted 09/05/2025 at 20:48:50
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