'A few scars' - Inside historic Liverpool victory as Jarell Quansah post-Wolves message revealed
So continues the feelgood factor at the Liverpool Academy in recent weeks.
While graduates Jarell Quansah and Ben Doak continue to make progress for club and country, it was lucky 13th for the Reds on Tuesday as they earned their first victory in the EFL Trophy with an impressive 3-0 triumph at League Two side Morecambe.
Having often been on the receiving end of some harsh scorelines in their previous four seasons in the competition, the under-21s overcame a shaky start with three first-half goals scored by Mateusz Musialowski, Calum Scanlon and Bobby Clark.
And for coach Barry Lewtas, it’s a result a long time in the making. “We talked this week in the prep about how nobody has remembered some of the performances in the past,” he says. “We’ve done well at times, but we’ve lost heavy. And that was the big message, that nobody remembers the performance, they just remember that you’ve never won one.”
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With no international commitments, Lewtas was able to field a strong team with the likes of midfielder Clark, forward Melkamu Frauendorf – who claimed a hat-trick of assists – and left-back Luke Chambers having already accrued senior experience.
“We just felt, with the quality of Luke and Calum, with Bobby on that side, that we would get opportunities,” says Lewtas. “But we also felt that we could kind of catch them (out). I think maybe they thought we would try to overplay at times, but we tried to run them over and then go in behind, and we caused them a lot of problems in the first half.
“We got in behind the full-backs a lot, and even when we were under
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