Trent Kone-Doherty scored two goals and set up another as Liverpool Under-18s won 3-2 at home to Stoke City on Saturday.
Jayden Danns was also on the scoresheet as the young Reds were twice pegged back before Kone-Doherty scored the rebound for his own saved penalty to clinch all three points as Marc Bridge-Wilkinson’s side moved level on points with Sunderland at the top of the U18 Premier League North table.
Liverpool started well at the Academy with Kone-Doherty in particular looking lively as he repeatedly ran at the Potters defence. The winger would have the game’s first shot in anger from one such run, beating his man as he cut inside from the left, before helping to create the opening goal from the Reds’ next attack inside the opening 10 minutes.
