Reserves end winless run with victory over Wigan
EVERTON Reserves’ nine-game run without a win in the FA Premier Reserve League Northern Section ended as they beat Wigan Athletic 2-0 at the Halton Stadium last night.
Andy Holden’s side gained revenge for the 2-1 defeat to the Latics in November which had started their winless streak.
Kieran Agard and debutant Karl Sheppard scored in the first half to make Everton’s final game of the season a winning one.
They had Adam Forshaw, Gerard Kinsella and Sheppard making debuts for the second string with only keeper Carlo Nash and right-back Seamus Coleman not teenagers.
Everton took the lead on 18 minutes when, from Forshaw‘s free-kick, Sheppard headed past Wigan keeper Lee Nicholls.
Then just before the break Agard’s shot deflected off a defender and looped over Nicholls, which was enough to give Everton the three points.
EVERTON RESERVES: Nash, Coleman, Barnett, Kinsella, Irving, Sinnott, O’Kane (Codling 72), Forshaw, Agard, Sheppard, Kissock. Subs: Stubhaug, Duffy, Nsiala, McAleny.
