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Match report: U19s suffer Youth League heartbreak on penalties

Liverpool U19s bowed out of the UEFA Youth League at the quarter-final stage after a penalty shootout defeat against Manchester City.

Curtis Jones put the visitors ahead at the City Academy with a cool finish to cap off a counter-attack, only for Lukas Nmecha to convert a free-kick with the help of a deflection.

Neither team could muster a winner in an eventful second half, with the 1-1 scoreline prompting a spot-kicks battle which the hosts won 3-2 to progress to April’s semi-final against FC Barcelona.

Steven Gerrard made a single change to the side that had defeated Manchester United in the last 16, with one of the goalscorers that day, Rafael Camacho, replacing the injured Elijah Dixon-Bonner.