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Liverpool Daily Post, 8 Mar 2005
Defeat sees U18s remain bottom
Academy Football with Chris Wright, Daily Post

LIVERPOOL under-18s fell to another crushing defeat when they lost 4-1
at Bolton Wanderers on Saturday.

John Owens's side are still looking for their first win of 2005 and
victory on Saturday would have given them hope of moving off the foot of
the FA Premier Academy League Group C table for the first time since
early on in the campaign.

Three points would have seen them go level on points with Bolton, but
victory means the Trotters now have a six-point gap as well as a game in
hand.

With just seven matches left Liverpool are looking increasingly likely
to finish bottom of the North West division.

On Saturday they were up against it from the start. Bolton opened the
scoring after two minutes and doubled their advantage 10 minutes later.

Liverpool managed to pull a goal back on the half-hour. A strong run by
Scottish youth international Ryan Wilkie brought about the goal. He
played in Phil Townley on the wing and his cross was finished off by
trialist Luke Coleman.

But just before the break any hopes of a comeback were dashed as Bolton
restored their two-goal advantage.

The Trotters added another in the second half as Liverpool slumped to
another disappointing defeat. Owens said: "It was a bad a start and it
was an uphill task from there on.

"When we scored - a well-worked goal by Luke Coleman - we had a chance.

"I felt if we had got to half-time still at 2-1, we could have rallied
the troops for the second half. But it was poor defending on a free-kick
and that killed the game.

"We had put a few good moves together in the first half, but the second
half we didn't perform as well. It was not a good team performance."

Owens added: "It was good for Luke Coleman to score and I played Ryan
Wilkie as a more central player behind the striker and he did very well
and looked lively. Phil Townley also did well on the left in the first
half. It was good to see those two at least showing better performances
than in previous weeks."

LIVERPOOL UNDER-18s: Lancaster; Hitchen, D Smith, J Smith, O'Donnell;
Noon (Barnett 60), Guthrie, Barratt, Townley; Wilkie, Coleman (Lin-field
60). Subs: Willis, Pringle.

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