by US sandwich chain Jersey Mike’s,<\/a> saw 93 goals scored across 23 ties.<\/p>\nNewly promoted League Two side Rochdale’s tie against Liverpool Under-21s in Northern Group H was briefly halted after 69 minutes due to fireworks being aimed into the ground from outside.<\/p>\n
Will Wright, the 18-year-old former Salford striker, had earlier cancelled out Devante Rodney’s opener for the hosts with a stunning solo goal but 41-year-old Ian Henderson put Dale back ahead after the brief delay with the first goal of his 24th professional season and dinked a third moments later.<\/p>\n
However, the Reds youngsters, who played with 10-men from the 21st minute after a red card for Senegalese defender Mor Talla Ndiaye, dug deep to score four and six minutes into stoppage time to snatch a draw and added insult to injury by nicking the penalty shootout 7-6 in sudden death to secure a bonus point.<\/p>\n
Russell Martin fielded a strong Leicester side who raced into a 5-0 lead before half-time against Fulham Under-21s, with Bosnian striker Admir Bristric scoring a hat-trick inside 34 minutes and Tommy Watson adding two more. <\/p>\n
The Cottagers pulled one back before Bobby De Cordova-Reid netted against his former club to add to his three first-half assists, while Watson came within inches of a claim to the match ball as he hit the post in the dying moments.<\/p>\n
The other game in Southern Group B also finished 6-1, with Michael Mellon scoring a hat-trick in Stevenage’s big win at Walsall.<\/p>\n
Accrington came from 2-0 down against Sunderland Under-21s to snatch a last-gasp equaliser in a 3-3 draw through Stefan Mols and then secured a bonus point in Northern Group A with a 3-1 win on spot-kicks.<\/p>\n
Luton midfielder Jordan Clark scored a hat-trick on his 33rd birthday as the Hatters thrashed Ipswich Town Under-21s 6-0 in Southern Group D while Caleb Watts scored twice as Plymouth ran out 5-1 winners against Crystal Palace in Southern Group E.<\/p>\n
Jack Lankester netted two as Crewe Alexandra thumped Aston Villa’s under-21s 4-1 in Northern Group B, while Nick Powell bagged both as Bradford came from behind to beat Newcastle’s youngsters 2-1 and join them at the top of Group C.<\/p>\n
Emeka Adiele’s first goal for Burton put them ahead against Nottingham Forest Under-21s but the visitors came back to level and then pinched the bonus point on penalties, though they stay behind Northern Group F leaders Notts County, who beat Grimsby 2-1.<\/p>\n
Barnsley were 4-0 down with 10 minutes to go at home to Leeds in Group G but rallied to score three times in seven minutes, though they could not find an equaliser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League One and League Two sides rained in goals against Premier League under-21 opposition in the EFL Trophy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}