Liverpool dealt double blow as defender suffers red card setback

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Trey Nyoni featured for Liverpool U21s in their Premier League 2 defeat to Burnley on Monday(Image: Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)

It has been a record-breaking week for one Liverpool youngster.

But while Rio Ngumoha's dramatic late winner at Newcastle United made him the club's youngest-ever goalscorer, there was disappointment elsewhere among the youth ranks.

Both the under-21s and U18s slipped to narrow defeats in their first competitive home games under respective new head coaches despite enjoying the greater possession and chances.

In Premier League 2 on Monday afternoon, Rob Page's U21s were beaten 3-2 by Burnley despite taking an early lead through an own goal from visiting defender Jack McEvilly.

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Goals either side of half-time from Kian McMahon-Brown and Manuel Benson put Burnley in front before Kieran Morrison, a regular scorer last season, produced an impressive equaliser when cutting in from the right and finishing into the corner.

But Liverpool - for whom Trey Nyoni, Armin Pecsi, Calvin Ramsay, Jayden Danns and the impressive Trent Kone-Doherty all started - conceded the winner four minutes later when McMahon-Brown notched his second.

Meanwhile, an U18s side led by new boss Simon Wiles went down 2-1 to Aston Villa on Tuesday evening in their opening U18 Premier League Cup group match.

All the goals came inside the opening 18 minutes.

Villa raced into a strong lead through Woody Burgess and Markie Meade before Joe Bradshaw set up Josh Sonni-Lambie to bring Liverpool back into the game.

The Reds dominated the remainder of the game but were hampered by a second yellow card and subsequent red for defender Harvey Owen with 14 minutes remaining.

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Liverpool are next in Premier League 2 action at Stoke City on Friday (kick-off 7pm) while the U18s are back in the U18 Premier League North at Burnley on Saturday (kick-off 11am).

LIVERPOOL U21s: Pecsi; Ramsay, Pinnington, Lucky (Airoboma 90+4), Miles; Pilling, Laffey (Figueroa 80); Morrison, Nyoni, Kone-Doherty; Danns (Wright 73).

BOOKING: Pilling.

LIVERPOOL U18s: Hall, Esdaille, Ayman, Cisse, Owen, Upton (Inglethorpe 72), Bradshaw, Hickman (Murray-Holme 60), Sonni-Lambie, Yeguo, Forrester (Lonmeni 60).