 Welcome to ToffeeTV and welcome to episode number three of Everton in Reserve, the show where myself, Cameron, sits down and talks about all of the latest news and results from Everton's Academy over the last seven days or so. A big, big thank you to everybody for supporting this series so far. The first couple of episodes were great, really, really enjoyed doing them and really, really enjoyed keeping everybody up to date with the Academy progress. It wasn't a great week for Everton Football Club. This week as a whole, both the Academy and of course the first team, both Everton under 18s and under 23s losing. The under 18s losing 4-0 in the mini-mercy side, Derby to Liverpool. Their first defeat of the season. They're currently sitting in fifth position, three wins, one draw and one loss. Just an off day for the under 18s this weekend. Look, it's not great that it's come up against Liverpool, of course, but everybody has off days. Like I said, we saw it with the first team on Sunday with the tuner lost to Southampton. The under 18s unfortunately come up against a strong Liverpool side and they just couldn't match them on the day. It was quite a heavy defeat, obviously by the score line, but like I said, Everton under 18s are genuinely in very, very good form, undefeated before this game and of course just struggled to pick up anything out of it. But it was quite a heavy defeat and like I said, it's not ideal that it's come against Liverpool, of course, but nothing to be too disheartened about. Only the first defeat of the season in very, very good form other than that. So fully expect the under 18s to bounce back next week and go out and get another three points and climb further up that table. But like I said, it was a disappointing result. It was a disappointing performance, but again, it's nothing to be too disheartened about other than the fact that it was against your local rivals, which is easier said than believed really, isn't it? I know Everton's first team would have been beaten four-nil by Liverpool's first team last week after winning our opening four or five games this season had been very disappointed as well. But hopefully the under 18s can bounce back. I've got full faith they can bounce back. Like I said, they're in very good form this season. Three wins and a draw before the defeat to Liverpool. So nothing too serious to worry about. And Everton's under 23s, unfortunately suffered a last minute defeat to Manchester United's under 23s on Friday night. Manchester United converting a penalty in the last seconds of stoppage time to win the game 2-1 after Everton actually went one-nil up. Quite a controversial penalty as well. To be honest, look, I watched it a couple of times and I am not completely convinced there was a lot of contact. OK, granted, the replays that I saw, they weren't the greatest of replays. It wasn't, you know, like in the Premier League, you've got VIR and you see it from every angle. It was a replay that looked a little bit like the player that, but I don't want to throw that on them because they might have been contact that was visible from a different angle. But Ellis Simms put Everton one-nil up in the game. We actually had an opportunity to score just before that as well. They had a one-on-one chance and which, unfortunately, the keeper made a good save from. But after that, he put us one-nil up, Tyler on Young who really important in the goal. He was great with the one-on-one chance as well. He played a fantastic ball to Ellis Simms. And we go one-nil up. Like I said, ball comes into the box. Ellis Simms takes a shot at it first time. Goalkeeper makes a save and then he follows in with the rebound to make it one-nil to Everton. And then, you know, we're looking in a very, very good position. The under-18, sorry, the under-23 is currently sitting in eighth in their league. Two wins are drawn and three losses. This would, of course, would have meant three wins and only two losses if we could have kept that lead up. We had a big chance to go two-nil up shortly after Ellis Simms put on us one-nil up. There was a little bit of a collision between Manchester United's goalkeeper and defender. It was quite similar to the one I don't know if anybody remembers at Goddison Park a couple of years ago when we played Tottenham Hotspur. And I think it was Pickford in Zoom and it might have been Pickford and Mina, but they absolutely clattered into each other. And then Sondres ran in behind and had an opportunity to score and ultimately did score. This was a quite similar situation. The Manchester United goalkeeper and defender clattered right into each other. Ellis Simms got the ball and it was quite far out. I think he wanted to bring it a little bit more forward before taking the shot. He took the shot just outside the area and Brandon Williams, who is of course a name that we've seen in the Premier League multiple times from Manchester United, got back and cleared it off the line. It was a big, big chance at that point to go two-nil open and really sort of kill the confidence of Manchester United. But unfortunately, we couldn't convey that. And look, you know, I don't think it's something to nail down too much on Ellis Simms for. He's been an absolutely fantastic goal-scoring form so far this season. Again, another goal on Friday night against Manchester United. Okay, he could have made it two and he probably could have had a hat-trick on the day as well, but you can't really go too far into it because he has been in fantastic form. But of course, like I said, it was a golden opportunity. We couldn't take it. And then a little bit later on in the game, Manchester United getting one goal back at Neon Lango with a decent shot to make it one-all. And then of course that last-minute penalty like we mentioned, Virginia's, our Virginia in goal, got a slight touch to it. The penalty was hit with some, you know, frosty to be fair, so it was hit quite hard. It could have got a hand on it, like I said, could have pushed it out, but would have probably been a little bit hypocritical to say that. And unfortunately for the under-23s, like I said, you know, at times in the game, you were looking at another win and a very, very good win away to Manchester United. But unfortunately, due to a last minute penalty, they were defeated. Couldn't be sitting eighth in the league, like I said, two wins one draw and three losses. And unfortunately it was another difficult one to take. Obviously a couple of difficult losses to take recently for the under-23s, one against Liverpool again a few weeks ago, conceding in the first minute and then not being able to get back into the game. And this one against Manchester United in the last seconds conceding in a game that, you know, we had plenty of opportunities just to win and kill off early on in the game. But there you go, like I said, not a great week for everything football club as a whole this week. A couple of decent performances though, like I said, Talon on Yungu looked fantastic to be honest against Manchester United, really comfortable in the middle of the park and played a nice couple of nice balls into Ellis Sims as well to give him opportunities. Again, Ellis Sims was on the score sheet. So there was a couple of decent performances, it was just unfortunate that they could not pick up the three points. And that was the story of Everton's week really, wasn't it? The under-18s being defeated for the first time this season, the under-23s picking up a last minute loss and obviously the first team losing to Southampton. Probably, you know, again, it's hard to say that was the worst out of the performances given the under-18s results, sorry. But it wasn't a great week for Everton in any of the sides, the 18s, the 23s or the first team. But hopefully every one of them can bounce back full confidence that the 18s will bounce back next week. Like I said, they're in very, very good form and, you know, it was just a one-off game. Again, under-23s, very unlucky to lose that game with a last-minute penalty. And the expectation is that the first team bounced back on Sunday against Newcastle. It was a disappointing defeat against Southampton, of course. And, you know, it was a disappointing performance for me. The most worrying thing was the, you know, the fact that those players that were giving their big opportunity to come in and impress the likes of Awolby, the likes of Sigitson, the likes of Bernard, who was given 45 minutes just simply didn't do anything to give the manager any sort of headache whatsoever. A fully expect Antony Gordon to feature. Probably even start on Sunday. Nas and Kanku, of course, will play it left-back with Luka Dean's suspension. So hopefully we can bounce back. Hopefully we're sitting here next week and we're talking about a, not only a positive result for the first team, but also a couple of positive results for the under-23s and the under-18s as well. But it wasn't a great week to be in Evertonian. But let's hope that this one is an awful lot better. Of course, not forgetting the Women's FA Cup finalist Sunday as well. 2pm kickoff, everything taken on. Manchester City, make sure that you support all of the Everton women, of course, on that day. And if you can give it a watch, then give it a watch. Of course, it's on at the same time as the Newcastle game, so I understand it's going to be a little bit difficult. But if we can get involved and support in any way possible, I know the Everton women's Twitter have put out a little sort of call for fans to send them video showing support to the girls ahead of the big day. It would mean a great deal to the football club and us fans as well. Because let's be honest, we need to be supporting our side. So there you go, that is the Everton in reserve report episode number three. If you have enjoyed it, please do hit that like button. Once again, a big, big thanks to Ped and Baz for letting me come on and do these. Really, really enjoyed doing these. Really enjoyed delving in to the academy games and having a little look at the players that are impressing and having a little look at the players that ultimately the hope is we'll be seeing at Goddison Park in the Premier League Sunday. Certainly the likes of Ella Sims, Tyler on Yungu. I'm in Janya, of course, new sign and who played last week in his debut. These are the type of players that you're looking at thinking, you know, I hope to see you at Goddison Park playing in the Premier League one day. So it's nice to see them at this level and see how they're doing. And like I said, it wasn't a great week, but we bounce back and we go again in this weekend's pictures. Big, big thanks for watching. If you have enjoyed it, please do hit that like button. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you are new as well. Share the video, let's try and get as many people involved in these episodes as possible. Don't forget to get over and join us on Patreon as well, cost literally less than a McDonald's meal that you'd probably after ordering now because I don't even know if you can go to Mackeys anymore, but get over, join us on Patreon, leave the video a like, subscribe to the channel. 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