Everton open Trophy with win

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Everton were the only Premier League academy side to claim victory in 90 minutes in the revamped Checkatrade Trophy on Tuesday night as their U23s won 2-0 at Sky Bet League One leaders Bolton.

Callum Dyson and Conor McAleny got the goals for the Toffees at the Macron Stadium as David Unsworth’s youngsters took the three points despite being able to only name four substitutes.

Norwich’s academy side claimed a crushing 6-1 victory on the road at Peterborough with Anthony Andreu netting a hat-trick and Josh Murphy scoring a couple of goals.

Reading’s youngsters were the only other academy outfit to win without the need for a penalty shoot-out – this competition sees drawn matches go to penalties with the winner getting an extra point – as Joseph Mendes’ spot-kick secured a 3-2 victory at Bristol Rovers.

Marcin Wasilewski, Ben Chilwell and Demarai Gray were three of the players in the Leicester academy line-up against Sheffield United and the Foxes enjoyed a …

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