Joe Hardy scored twice to earn Liverpool U23s a 2-1 win at Southampton.
The striker put Barry Lewtas’ team ahead just five minutes into Sunday’s Premier League 2 match at Snows Stadium and netted again shortly before the break, after Luke Pearce had equalised for the Saints with quarter of an hour gone.
Lewtas, who made eight changes to his starting XI with several members of his squad having prepared for and played in Saturday’s internal match, told Liverpoolfc.com: “We trained together with this group all week and I was really pleased with the performance today.