Tom Cannon capped off a memorable 24 hours by bagging a brace as Everton under-21s came from behind to beat Paris Saint-Germain.
The forward was handed his first-team debut during Tuesday’s Carabao Cup defeat to Bournemouth when he replaced Neal Maupay with nine minutes remaining.
Cannon impressed in his first season as a fully-fledged Everton under-23 player last year, scoring eight goals in 23 appearances to finish as the team's leading marksman.
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And the 19-year-old, who joined Everton’s Academy aged 10, continued his impressive start to this campaign to help make it three wins from three in the Premier League International Cup for his side.
In an open and frantic start, both sides went close to opening the scoring with Charlie Whitaker firing over for Everton and Ismael Gharbi firing wide for PSG.
But the midfielder would soon make up for his miss when he fired PSG ahead. Sekou Doucoure fed Dan Bikota down the right, before the winger pulled the ball back to Gharbi, who finished into the bottom corner of the net.
Zoumana Camara’s side then went close to a second when Queyrell Tchicamboud broke free down the left, but despite managing to find Romaric Etonde with a pull-back, the forward could only fire straight at Zan Luk Leban in the Everton goal.
But moments later and goal number 10 of the season for Cannon would arrive. The ever impressive Stanley Mills advanced down the right before his low cross was turned home by the Aintree-born forward.
And it wasn’t long before goal 11, with Mills once again involved in the build-up.
This time the son of former Leeds United and Man City full-back, Danny Mills, was brought down inside the box with referee Scott Jackson having no hesitation in pointing to the penalty spot.
Cannon was the man tasked with converting from 12-yards, and he coolly delivered, sending Lucas Lavallee in the PSG goal the wrong way in the process.
Everton started the second-half where they left off in the opening 45 minutes, with Cannon, Mills and Whitaker all going close to adding a third for Paul Tait's side.
Cannon and Mills made way for Kaita Kouyate and Francis Okoronkwo just before the hour mark, but it was another fine night’s work for the pair, who did their first-team chances no harm.
PSG, to their credit, kept pushing in a bid to find an equaliser, with Leban first denying Mahamadou Diawara before pushing Gharbi’s effort round the post.
This night, however, belonged to Cannon, who.has certainly given Frank Lampard food for thought ahead of Saturday’s trip to the Vitality Stadium.
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