Liverpool U18s suffered late heartache as Blackburn Rovers snatched a free-kick winner deep into stoppage time to take a 1-0 victory from their U18 Premier League North clash on Tuesday night.
Georgie Gent’s 20-yard curler went in off the post to give the visitors the three points in a tough game at the Kirkby Academy that seemed headed for a fair draw.
Kaide Gordon - a recent arrival from Derby County - made his Reds debut, starting on the right of a front three alongside Max Woltman and Mateusz Musialowski.
The new boy almost made an instant impact with his deep cross headed narrowly past his own post by full-back Jay Haddow early on.