Liverpool 15-year-old scores on debut as £150k signing nets first hat-trick in emphatic 7-1 win

Trent Kone-Doherty scored his first hat-trick in Liverpool colours while 15-year-old Joe Bradshaw scored on his Under-18s debut as the young Reds thrashed Sunderland 7-1 on Saturday.

Trey Nyoni opened the scoring with an early goal of the season contender for the young Reds after just three minutes. Powering home a first-time half-volley into the bottom corner after a Liverpool corner was half-cleared to the edge of the box, the midfielder’s strike maintained his 100% scoring run since signing from Leicester City this summer, with the 16-year-old making it three goals from three games in the U18s Premier League.

Kone-Doherty got his first of the day after being fed out wide by Cody Pennington, cutting inside before finishing across goal, before doubling his account with an impressive individual effort on the stroke of half-time. Running from inside his own half, the winger cut inside again before finishing from the edge of the box.

An £150k signing from Derry City in the summer of 2022, the 17-year-old completed his 24-minute hat-trick shortly after the restart. Played in by Jayden Danns, he once again cut in from the left flank before stroking home into the corner.

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Having played the first half for Liverpool Under-16s against Sunderland on a different pitch at the Academy, 15-year-old Bradshaw had been brought on at half-time for Marc Bridge-Wilkinson’s side. And he made it even more of a day to remember as he scored the Reds’ fifth in the 75th minute.

With Danns the creator once again, Bradshaw finished emphatically