U23s Notch a fine win at Leicester City

Currently playing Leicester U23s , live on Leicester site for free. 0-0. Both Onyango and Small playing. Onyango looking good.

Small scores for U23s

Played in by Broadhead. Nicely taken.

Small is playing left midfield instead of LB, interesting move mirror of last night

1-1. Ball over the top. John caught out and Con slow to cover.

2-1. Broadhead plays in Iverson to score after Onyango wins the ball.

lovely stuff, Brent - please keep the updates coming as I cook dinner

Brent, iQuirk at 4 was also caught out for the goal, he's not a centre back and has been caught out a few times. Astley must be injured or heading out on loan.

Lovely through ball from Hughes but Broadhead goal just offside.

Phill did I mistake Quirk for John?

Con scores from free kick.

Yep, good free kick from Rhys Hughes.
Brent John is 2 at right back, Quirk is 4 centre back, never seen him play there before.

HT.

My bad, Phill.

Brent these youngsters need to get a grip, they all look alike with their floppy hair, need a few shaved heads, hair dyed blue etc to pick them out ;-)

It's been a good first half for us, Onyango and Broadhead were stand outs for me. We've up our game and played some good football.

Unselfish of Broadhead for two of the goals.

Onyango involved in our first two goals, playing a neat pass forward, then winning the ball for the second but full credit to Nathan Broadhead for great final passes for both of them.

Miss kick by Quirk in penalty area gifts a goal.

Broadhead goal after through pass from Hughes (?).

Against the run of play in this half.

Very well taken, he's worked hard and deserved his goal.

Looks like a back five now with Small and John wingbacks or full-backs, Iversen in among the centre-backs.

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Tom Cannon on.

Cannon on for Hughes.

What a save by Virginia!

Final score 4-2 to Everton for a well deserved win against a decent Leicester side.

Pretty much all Leicester second half, Phill! Yet we still score.

All enjoy it when the kids win and some good performances out there tonight from Broadhead particularly and Onyango, who faded a bit in the second half. Einar Iversen had a good game too, plus Kyle John pushing up at right-back.<>And we gave debuts at this level to two 17-year-olds, Isaac Price and Luke Butterfield. Throw in the 17-year-old Onyango, 16 year-old Small and 18-year-old Cannon and it's quite clear the trend of making the team younger is continuing and getting the result too.

Brent, ‘tis the modern way, close down your opponents and hit them on the break.

It was also good looking at the formations, how we dropped back to five in the middle, one up front at times, then attacked with Hughes and Iversen supporting Broadhead.

Yes, a very flexible in formation. I was just thinking that about recent first-team games. So much interchanging of positions.

Interesting too how we reshaped. It looked like Small needed to come off but, instead of a straight swap, they moved Iversen to the back first, played with a 5 until he settled, brought on another midfielder for Small, then revert to a back four.

Despite the stick Unsworth gets, his players are well drilled in their positions. So, when Carlo was looking to Onyango and Small to play yesterday, they fitted in quickly to the first-team method.

All sounds very encouraging. A nice bit of evolution, as predicted in January. As well as having them well drilled, Unsworth also seems to build a team dynamic. So expect to see the new boys gel over the rest of the season. Maybe one or two can emulate Onyango and Small.

Robert, there was an interesting bit from the Leicester manager pre match. He said they know Everton will give them a game because they play proper football expecting to win, it's about winning not just development. They liked to play similar style. If you're winning games you've got good players.

He also said something like, none of this playing from the back, you just end up with centre-backs who are not used to heading the ball. It was an interesting take. Steve somebody... I didn't catch his name.

Just noticed Callum Wright was prominent for Leicester. I think he was the Blackburn youngster we were strongly linked with before he went to Leicester.

Phill, I also thought the Leicester commentators knew the Everton players and were very fair and complimentary in their comments on them.

Brent, often the “home” commentators for our away fixtures are better than our home ones. I find it interesting hearing their comments on our players, though there is an inevitable bias on refereeing decisions at times!

Sorry I missed this game, sounds like it was good to watch. I always liked Broadhead, he's got a decent future in football. I think he would have got a loan or permenant move last summer only for a bad injury at the time. He could move this month, and to a Championship level; he wouldn't be out of place IMO.