Barkley scores again but Blues lose

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Everton 3 - 4 Kashiwa Reysol
Everton's Under-19 side, led by Ross Barkley, kicked off their second game in Bracket C of the Gordon Jago Super Group at the 33rd Dallas Cup. Everton are playing Kashiwa Reysol of Japan, and the Blues got off to another great start, Barkley putting them into the lead agains after just 6 mins. Anton Forrester and John Lundstram scored and the Blues went in ahead 3 - 2 at half-time but could not hold off the Japanese onslaught and went behind 3 - 4.


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From the @DallasCupLive Twitter feed:

While it was sunny with temps pushing close to 90 yesterday, it is cloudy and 70 right now.

Everton: Griffiths; Browning, Touray, Pennington, Dier; Hope, Lundstram, Grant, Forrester, Long, Barkley(c).

Goal for Everton! And who else but Ross Barkley again: 1-0 to the Toffees, 6th minute

Kashiwa doing well to keep most of the possession and nearly get a reward but shot goes wide. The physical advantage of Everton over Kashiwa is dominant.

Goal for Kashiwa!! It's 1-1 and probably deserved. A deft little chip frees a KR player who chips over the rushing keeper.

Hard tackle from Long forces a talking to from the New Zealand referee. "Use your head, you've got one chance!"

Goal Everton! A ball is played in to Anton Forrester with his back to goal, turns his smaller defender and blasts past the keeper.

Kashiwa play probably the best football of any Japanese team I've seen here in recent years

And Long is shown a yellow card

3-1 to Everton! John Lundstram on a cross from Hallam Hope.

Kashiwa pulls one back instantly! Ball played in to a forward who lays off to trailing midfielder, volleys it home. Beautiful.

The Kashiwa goal prompts Everton coach Neil Dewsnip to say, "If we keep messing around it will be 5-3 to then I'm telling you!"

Half Time: Everton 3 - 2 Kashiwa Reysol

Second half about to get underway. Kashiwa will have the stiff south wind at their back second half.

Everton defense having a ton of trouble with Kashiwa movement off the ball going forward

Dangerous free kick coming for Kashiwa... Everton are in trouble in this game. Still lead 3-2 though...

Free kick was blasted well over... poor effort.

Kashiwa close with a flick header that comes off the inside of the post and into Griffiths's hands.

Kashiwa Reysol have pulled level!! A defensive clearance bounces off an Everton player's back and falls to #11 who is in on goal and scores! 3-3!

4-3 Kashiwa are you kidding?! What a performance from the Japanese scrum in the box; Griffiths saves but the rebound is tapped home.

Final Score: Everton 3 - 4 Kashiwa Reysol.

With yesterday's opponents Coritiba winning their second game 7 - 0 over Bolivar, the Bracket C table now looks like this:

Kashiwa     2   1   1   0    5  4  +1  4
Coritiba    2   1   0   1    7  1  +6  3
Everton     2   1   0   1    4  4  +0  3
Bolivar     2   0   1   1    1  8  -7  1
The top team goes through to Friday's semi-final, along with the second-placed team having the best record across the three brackets.

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