Reserves/Youth Teams thread 10/11

[SB]

His old man will be well pleased with that I'm sure

[Arn]

Borrell joy at cup triumph

Rodolfo Borrell hailed a superb team performance as Liverpool's youngsters got their bid for Youth Cup glory off to a flyer with a 4-0 win over Notts County on Wednesday night.

he Reds included the likes of Suso, Jack Robinson and John Flanagan in a strong starting XI and always looked likely to progress after Krisztian Adorjan fired home the opener on nine minutes.

Michael Ngoo then doubled the lead just after the interval before Raheem Sterling got his name on the scoresheet with a sensational third.

Ngoo grabbed his second of the game late on to seal victory and leave Borrell delighted by his side's overall showing at Meadow Lane.

"It is a great result for us and we are very pleased with how the lads applied themselves," Borrell told Liverpoolfc.tv.

"In the first 20 minutes we played fantastic football and deserved to go ahead through Adorjan.

"After that we were not practical in possession or as clinical in front of goal as I would have liked and we allowed the game to get too open.

"We spoke about how we could improve at half-time and I was delighted with the second-half showing.

"We scored three great goals and illustrated what a good team we can be against an opponent who had been unbeaten in their last 11 matches, including the last two rounds of the cup.

"We can now head into the winter break in good spirits and look ahead to what will hopefully be a successful 2011."

Liverpool Youth: Belford, Flanagan, Robinson, Sama, McGiveron, Coady, Roddan (Aylmer), Suso, Sterling, Ngoo, Adorjan (Silva).

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[SB]

Thanks Arn. There seems to be a few good prospects in that side but only time will tell.

[BigChief]

"Raheem Sterling got his name on the scoresheet with a sensational third"

Poor Notts County, with us having Ngoo, Sterling and Suso they didn't stand a snowball's chance!!

[Shaggy]

realjohnaldo John Aldridge
stirling unmarkable in the 4.0 youth cup win souso also excellent,ngoo 2 goals at 6ft 6 better than crouch at 18 yrs of age

[Vermilion]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGnYgi3vwk"]YouTube - F.A Youth Cup 3rd Round - Notts County 0-4 Liverpool, Krisztian Adorjan (0-1)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1hZbRp8ag"]YouTube - F.A Youth Cup 3rd Round - Notts County 0-4 Liverpool, Michael Ngoo (0-2)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY2I40zwfvg"]YouTube - F.A Youth Cup 3rd Round - Notts County 0-4 Liverpool, Raheem Sterling (0-3)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1qQo7XFehc"]YouTube - F.A Youth Cup - Notts County 0-4 Liverpool, Michael Ngoo (0-4)[/ame]

[SB]

Thanks Vermilion.

Nice goals all of them. The goal posts at the top of the screen fooled me at first.

[Fernandinho]

Ngoo is a ****ing giant!

[Pablo]

Ngoo is a ****ing giant!

Looks class doesn't he!

[dww]

The trouble for someone like Ngoo is that, similar to Peter Crouch, he will need games to learn how to use his frame against stronger, experienced defenders. It took Crouch a number of clubs to become the player he was even when he joined us (let alone the player Rafa helped him become). It will be interesting to see how he develops from here.

[SB]

The trouble for someone like Ngoo is that, similar to Peter Crouch, he will need games to learn how to use his frame against stronger, experienced defenders. It took Crouch a number of clubs to become the player he was even when he joined us (let alone the player Rafa helped him become). It will be interesting to see how he develops from here.

Surely some time on loan in the Championship could help that Dave ?

[Reece]

Interview with David Fairclough on our kids:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=853649&sec=england&root=england&cc=5739

[Shaggy]

"Our transfer policy around the reserve team was absolutely barmy under Benitez. It was full of foreign players. You could go and watch the Liverpool reserves last year and there would be nine, ten foreign lads who were never going to make the grade for Liverpool in a million years. People like Nathan Eccleston couldn't even get a game in the reserves because the foreign boys got the nod."

Having been given a new mandate by Hodgson to take complete control of reserve-team affairs, McMahon set about making wholesale changes to the playing personnel over the summer, a process that Fairclough candidly describes as "sorting the wheat from the chaff". Of the foreign players involved in the reserves, Daniel Ayala, Peter Gulcalsi and Victor Palsson were sent out on loan, while Alexander Kacanklik, Lauri Dalla Valle, Damien Plessis, Vincent Weijl, Nabil El Zhar and Kristian Nemeth were all ushered out.

"John McMahon definitely deserves credit for the changes. He was working under very strict guidance from Benitez, always being told what to do, but then Roy came in and told him to take full responsibility for looking after the reserves. John made his recommendations about who should stay and who should go and it's no surprise that a lot of the young players who didn't have a hope have now been released. Now you've got a reserve team with an English core, which is a move in the right direction.

Why is he so ****ing obsessed with 'English lads'? Eccleston couldn't get in the reserve team cos he wasn't good enough. Of course it's nice to have a few local lads in there but ultimately who gives a ****. He talks about 'foreign lads who were never going to make the grade for Liverpool in a million years' - where are these English lads who are going to make it? Cos Eccleston certainly won't and Spearing hasn't. **** all these old school ex-players banging the English drum. I'm sick of it re Hodgson/managers, and I'm sick of it with young players.

[Vermilion]

Why is he so ****ing obsessed with 'English lads'? Eccleston couldn't get in the reserve team cos he wasn't good enough. Of course it's nice to have a few local lads in there but ultimately who gives a ****. He talks about 'foreign lads who were never going to make the grade for Liverpool in a million years' - where are these English lads who are going to make it? Cos Eccleston certainly won't and Spearing hasn't. **** all these old school ex-players banging the English drum. I'm sick of it re Hodgson/managers, and I'm sick of it with young players.

Annoys the **** out of me too. If your good enough your good enough, **** where your from.

[Shaggy]

Maybe he's referring to the likes of Brouwer - who patently was never anywhere near good enough but got a lot of games for the ressies. Still, it's bollocks.