United travelled to Everton's new Academy Centre at Halewood this morning, hoping to build on last week's success at West Brom.
In extreme cold and blustery conditions, Paul McGuinness took the opportunity of introducing two U/16's into the team, Ravel Morrison on the left side of a five man midfield and Ryan Tunnicliffe on the right. Petrucci, Norwood and James held the middle roles while there was no place on the bench at all for Nick Ajose or Cameron Stewart.
With Joe Dudgeon now fully fit, Kenny Strickland dropped to the bench and Ollie Gill was moved into central defence alongside Scott Wootton.
Another U/16, John Cofie was also named as a substitute.
Whatever eyebrows were raised about starting with such a young side, United fans were soon celebrating as Morrison put United ahead after only five minutes. Everton then started started to get back into the game and equalised on 21 minutes when they scored from a header on the six yard box. It was a disappointing goal to concede in what was turning out to be a very good game.
Half-time Everton 1 Manchester United 1
The second half was fairly even and both teams had half chances without really stretching the keepers that often. McGuinness brought on Robbie Brady to replace Davide Petrucci to provide a little more threat in front of goal but the Everton defence gave him little opportunity to shine. Shortly after, Ryan Tunnicliffe, who had a fine game, picked up a knock and was replaced by Chris Curran.
The game then petered out a little with no other action to talk about.
Full-time Everton 1 Manchester United 1
TEAM
1. Gary Woods
2. Reece Brown
3. Joe Dudgeon
4. Scott Wootton
5. Oliver Gill
6. Matthew James
7. Ryan Tunnicliffe
8. Oliver Norwood
9. Federico Macheda
10. Davide Petrucci
11. Ravel Morrison
12. Kenny Strickland
13. Conor Devlin
14. Chris Curran (7) - '68
15. Robbie Brady (10) - '56
16. John Cofie
In extreme cold and blustery conditions, Paul McGuinness took the opportunity of introducing two U/16's into the team, Ravel Morrison on the left side of a five man midfield and Ryan Tunnicliffe on the right. Petrucci, Norwood and James held the middle roles while there was no place on the bench at all for Nick Ajose or Cameron Stewart.
With Joe Dudgeon now fully fit, Kenny Strickland dropped to the bench and Ollie Gill was moved into central defence alongside Scott Wootton.
Another U/16, John Cofie was also named as a substitute.
Whatever eyebrows were raised about starting with such a young side, United fans were soon celebrating as Morrison put United ahead after only five minutes. Everton then started started to get back into the game and equalised on 21 minutes when they scored from a header on the six yard box. It was a disappointing goal to concede in what was turning out to be a very good game.
Half-time Everton 1 Manchester United 1
The second half was fairly even and both teams had half chances without really stretching the keepers that often. McGuinness brought on Robbie Brady to replace Davide Petrucci to provide a little more threat in front of goal but the Everton defence gave him little opportunity to shine. Shortly after, Ryan Tunnicliffe, who had a fine game, picked up a knock and was replaced by Chris Curran.
The game then petered out a little with no other action to talk about.
Full-time Everton 1 Manchester United 1
TEAM
1. Gary Woods
2. Reece Brown
3. Joe Dudgeon
4. Scott Wootton
5. Oliver Gill
6. Matthew James
7. Ryan Tunnicliffe
8. Oliver Norwood
9. Federico Macheda
10. Davide Petrucci
11. Ravel Morrison
12. Kenny Strickland
13. Conor Devlin
14. Chris Curran (7) - '68
15. Robbie Brady (10) - '56
16. John Cofie