[lfc-news] Academy: Owens wants a derby booster - Post

Liverpool Daily Post, 25 Feb 2005
Owens wants a derby booster
Academy Football with Chris Wright, Daily Post

LIVERPOOL under-18s go into tomorrow's derby match with Everton at
Netherton still looking for their first FA Premier Academy League win of
2005.

John Owens's side put up one of their poorest performances last week and
the Liverpool coach is keen for improvement against Everton.

Liverpool have won just one match in all competitions since the turn of
the year, and that came last week in the Liverpool Senior Cup against St
Helens. They are four points adrift at the bottom of the Group C table,
having played a game more than Bolton.

And with just nine Academy League matches left, they need to improve
their form if the campaign is not allowed to just fizzle out.

Owens said: "We are obviously looking forward to the derby match. It is
a good game to get back on track if we can get a result.

"We are looking at each game. We are trying to tighten up defensively
and that is working. We are not letting lots of goals in.

"It is getting the balance right as a team and seeing what we can do. We
need to defend better and not let so many goals in. Not just the back
four but the whole team which we are doing but there is still incidents
like last week, on a free-kick, where we have been caught out.

"We are working on that and will continue to do so, but there is also
the matter of trying to score goals ourselves, which has been a problem
all season."

Apart from the three long-term injury casualties Lee Peltier, Mark
Roberts and Calum Woods, Liverpool expect to have Republic of Ireland
youth international striker Conal Platt and defender Adam Hitchen back
after their injury problems.

Liverpool have released Australian trialist keeper Caleb Patterson after
his short stay at the club. Owens and his coaches felt that at
18-years-old he was only as good as not better than the goalkeepers they
already have.

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