Reserves Suffer Heavy Defeat

Peterborough United beat a youthful Liverpool reserves 4-1 in a one-sided encounter at London Road on Saturday.

Gerardo Bruna scored Liverpool’s loan goal from the distance as he saw his free kick bounce off the wall back to him.

Despite losing heavily, Gary Albett found numerous positives to be taken from the match.

“We struggled physically at times against an experienced team but it’s all part of learning curve for the young players,” Albett told Liverpoolfc.tv.

“We could learn different things about our players and you can see how they cope in a different enviroment.

“To be fair we did pass the ball nicely at times but we gave away four bad goals from our point of view down to sloppy defending.

“With Peter Gulasci and Dean Bouzanis away in the UEFA Under-19 Championships and David Martin with the first team in Switzerland we had two Academy goalkeepers with us.

“Chris Oldfield made some outstanding saves in the first half before [he] had to go off at half-time.

“Hakan Duyan - who is only 16 - came on for Chris in the second half and he did really well. He showed he can cope at this level.

“I thought Gary Mackay-Steven did very well at left back and Nathan Eccleston showed some good touches up front. He is a young player with ability and we look at him more as the season goes on.”