WATCH VIDEO: Liverpool U18s Replicates First Team Vs Nottingham Forest 3-2 Win With Amazing Superb goals from the academy Stars

 

 

 

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Goals: Danns 11′, pen 86′ Koumas 30, Kone-Doherty 90+7′; Brown (pen) 40′, Sinclair 56′

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While Klopp takes his team to the capital for their opening game of the season, he will have been impressed by the events back at Kirkby.

Marc Bridge-Wilkinson named a strong and exciting lineup for the visit of Nottingham Forest as the U18s season got underway, with the likes of

Lewis Koumas, Jayden Danns and Trent Kone-Doherty involved.

Notably, though, they deployed the same inverted system used by the senior side, with Josh Davidson taking on Trent Alexander-Arnold‘s role with

great effect.

The 17-year-old played a key role in getting the young Reds off to a flying start alongside Koumas, Danns and Kone-Doherty.

After a memorable pre-season with Klopp and Co, Koumas had an assist and a goal to his name inside 30 first-half minutes, setting up Danns for 1-0

before Kone-Doherty created the opening for his close-range strike.

Liverpool were consistently dangerous in the final third and the scoreboard would not have looked amiss with more than two goals to their name at

the break.

As it was, their lead was cut in half after the referee pointed to the spot for a foul by Wellity Lucky, much to the confusion of the young Reds and

those watching on.

HT: Liverpool U18s 2-1 Nottingham Forst U18s

Forest started the second half the brighter of the two teams, they were able to bypass Liverpool’s press to level the scores and for much of the half, it

looked set to stay that way.

But in the final exchanges, the young Reds scored twice against a 10-man Forest – once from the penalty spot and another thanks to a brilliant curled

strike from outside the penalty area.