{"id":70368,"date":"2025-08-15T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70368\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:58:07","slug":"will-wright-scores-first-liverpool-goal-in-4-0-win-over-nigerian-side-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70368\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Wright scores first Liverpool goal in 4-0 win over Nigerian side – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool\u2019s summer signing Will Wright<\/a> scored his first goal as he started in a 4-0 thrashing of Nigerian side One Touch FC to round off the U21s\u2019 pre-season.<\/p>\n

Wright has enjoyed a dream start to life at Liverpool, coming off the bench for the first team hours after his move from Salford City was announced.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old is set to start the season as part of the U21s, however, and made his third appearance for the young Reds in their final friendly of pre-season on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A 45-minute outing brought a first goal for the club, breaking the deadlock after being found the box by Trent Kone-Doherty.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Calvin Ramsay<\/a> made it 2-0 before the break, with the right-back spending the warmup schedule with the U21s as he searches for a move away \u2013 likely taking him back to Scotland on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n

Head coach Rob Page then made nine changes for the second half, with goalkeeper Bailey Hall and the fit-again James McConnell<\/a> the only players retained.<\/p>\n

One of those brought on, Kaide Gordon<\/a>, continued an outstanding run of form through pre-season as he fired in to make it 3-0 just three minutes after the restart.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

McConnell then carved upon the One Touch FC defence to find Gordon in a move that ensured Liverpool\u2019s fourth, with midfielder Fola Onanuga eventually finishing after Keyrol Figueroa\u2019s effort was saved.<\/p>\n

It was a valuable bonus run-out for Liverpool as they build up to their Premier League<\/a> 2 opener away to Leicester<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Liverpool U21s: Hall; Ramsay (Pitt 46\u2032), Nallo (Airoboma 46\u2032), Pinnington (Lucky 46\u2032), Miles (Davidson 46\u2032); McConnell (Trueman 60\u2032), Pilling (Onanuga 46\u2032), Laffey (Morrison 46\u2032); Kone-Doherty (Ahmed 46\u2032), Koumas (Figueroa 46\u2032), Wright (Gordon 46\u2032)<\/p>\n

Who was absent for Liverpool U21s?<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

There were a number of players notable in their absence, with Jayden Danns<\/a> the most prominent as speculation continues over a loan move.<\/p>\n

Rhys Williams<\/a>, who is now 24, has been a regular for the U21s throughout pre-season but was also not involved, which was also the case for 21-year-olds James Balagizi and Oakley Cannonier who are seeking new clubs.<\/p>\n

Left-backs Luke Chambers<\/a>, Calum Scanlon<\/a> and Clae Ewing all missed out again due to long-term injuries, while goalkeeper Armin Pecsi<\/a> was with the first team.<\/p>\n

Midfielder Kyle Kelly is yet to feature for the U21s in pre-season but is understood to have signed a new contract after his previous terms expired on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s summer signing Will Wright scored his first goal as he started in a 4-0 thrashing of Nigerian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,739,561,82],"class_list":["post-70368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}