21:00 That is that. The end of an incredible match. Liverpool`s first half performance was breath-taking, although Everton battled hard to pick up a draw against their local rivals. My man of the match goes to Jordan Rossiter in midfield, although Cleary and Jones were both excellent in the second half, while Canos and Teixeira were excellent in the first half, I felt young Rossiter was constantly brilliant over the course of the 90 minutes played.

Full Time: Everton under 21 3-3 Liverpool under 21

90` There will be three minutes added on at the end of this game, which gives me time to think of my man of the match.

88` I think one of the main problems for Liverpool in this second half is the lack of a central attacker to hold the ball up when breaking.

83` Tom Davies equalises for Everton with a simple tap in, with the sub who came on at half time dragging the blues back from being 3-0 down, despite the youngster escaping a red card earlier in the match.

Goal Everton 3-3 Liverpool

80` Ryan Fulton again dealing with the Everton pressure well. Between this performance and his impressive display against Chelsea recently, it would come as no surprise if a Football League side come in for the Scottish keeper on loan.

77` Ryan Fulton comes to Liverpool`s rescue with a fine save from a low shot by Shane Lavery.

74` Everton`s spell of dominance has been nullified by Liverpool who have kept the ball impeccably well in the past 10 minutes.

71` The introduction of Chirivella has given Liverpool slight more control in the midfield area.

68` Liverpool have not been their same selves this half, and can not seem to get hold of the ball like they ussualy do. Everton are constantly getting into the game more and more.

64` Conor McAleny pulls another one back with a fantastic finish from 20 yards out.

Goal Everton 2-3 Liverpool

62` Sam Byrne comes close for Everton, as he picks up a free header at the back post, but his effort goes over the cross bar.

60` Pedro Chirivella will now come on to replace Sergi Canos, who has been bright in tonight`s game, although he appears to have a bit of a knock.

56` Holgate impresses with a nice touch as he carries the ball out of the back four.

52` Tom Davies comes in with a horrible challenge on Dan Cleary, and the Irishman leaps to his feet to confront the Evertonian, although Jordan Rossiter is quick to break the row up. Referee Scott Oldham initially took out the red card, although Davies escapes with just the yellow.

50` Cameron Brannagan`s corner hits the post and nearly crawls over the line, with Jack Dunn striking the rebound, but his shot is blocked.

48` Great pace from Harry Wilson who broke away down the left flank, but is hacked down by Walsh, who takes a yellow card for his foul.

45` Following the formalaties, the second half is under way.

20:00 Grant and Evans come off for Everton, with Davies and Robinson entering the game.

19:59 There will be a change for both sides, firstly for Liverpool, Tom Brewitt will come on for Tiago Ilori, who is still trying to get minutes as he came back to pre-season late.

19:50 Liverpool have been excellent so far today, with their quick inter play something to please Alex Inglethorpe and Michael Beale, with Sergi Canos, Jordan Rossiter and Joao Carlos Teixeira looking a step above everyone else on the pitch. Liverpool have looked sound at the back with the addition of Tiago Ilori. Everton have shown very little in the final third, although at times they have kept the ball well in midfield, none the less, their defenders can not seem to deal with the intricate passing of Liverpool on the edge of the box.

Half Time: Everton under 21`s 1-3 Liverpool under 21`s

45` Joe Williams, the captain of Everton, has his shot from 30 yards out, deflected by Dan Cleary, and it finds the back of the net quite luckily.

Goal Everton 1-3

43` Liverpool close to making it 4-0, with Sergi Canos, Jordan Rossiter, Cameron Brannagan and Joao Carlos Teixeira all linking up well, but the intricate team play does not lead to anothe goal.

41` Mason Holgate, dubbed as a future international and Everton starter, has looked nervous on his debut tonight, even though the teenager has made over 20 appearance in the Football League.

39` Everton test Ryan Fulton for the first time, with a free kick from Walsh, but the Liverpool keeper deals with it

37` Sergi Canos makes it 3-0 to Liverpool after a lot of pressure in the minutes leading up to the goal.

Goal Liverpool 3-0

36` Dan Cleary has a powerful header clared off the line from Everton defender, Walsh.

35` Joao Carlos Teixeira does excellent with a bit of trickery to play in Joe Maguire, with the eye catching move culminating in a diving header off the line from Pennington

33` Rossiter whips in a cross from the left, and Dunn finds himself free at the back post, only for the scouser to be denied making it 3-0 to the reds, by the post.

32` Everton are experience their best spell in terms of possession, but Liverpool have been well diciplined.

30` Everton`s right back, Jones, makes a powerful run down the right flank, and his excellent shot is well blocked by Liverpool left full Joe Maguire.

28` Alberto Moreno and Jose Enrique both here tonight watching the youngsters in this mini derby.

25` Liverpool now brimming with confidence, as they move tha ball across the pitch excellently.

21` Pressure from Jordan Rossiter on the Everton defenders, leaves Joao Carlos Teixeira with the ball 20 yards out, and the 22 year old powerfully drives his shot into the bottom corner.

Goal 2-0 Liverpool

18` The game has been stopped for the moment with Sergi Canos going down injured, althought the winger seems fine to continue.

16` Everton slowly getting into the game following the penalty. Sam Byrne and Antony Evans providing a bit of flair for the blues.

12` Harry Wilson converts the penalty to give the young reds a 1-0 lead in the mini-derby.

Goal Liverpool 1-0

11` Joe Maguire does brilliantly to play in Harry Wilson, who was fouled by debutant, Mason Holgate.

11` Penalty to Liverpool

10` Teixeira opts not to play in Harry Wilson, and he has his timid shot blocked.

9` Duun, who is now 20 years of age, and will be looking to impress some of the scouts here tonight, has a shot well saved from 30 yards out.

7` Sam Byrne nudges Ilori, but a foul is not deemed by Scott Oldham, and Everton earn themselves a throw in, right by the corner flag.

5` Conor Grant blocks Joe Maguire`s attempted clearance, and the block nearly catches Ryan Fulton out between the Liverpool sticks. Nothing comes of it though.

4` Dan Cleary does well to break up Everton`s quick dynamic counter attack.

3` Sergi Canos does well to gain a free kick, but nothing comes of the play, with Everton quickly counter attacking.

2` The game has started quietly, with both sides finding it difficult to keep hold of the ball.

1` Kick off. Everton start this mini derby off.

The referee for this big encounter is Scott Oldham, who may be familiar to viewers of the Football League, with the experienced official featuring as a fourth official often, inlcuding last Saturday, where he worked at Huddersfied`s match with Blackburn Rovers.

Jordan Henderson is set to miss Liverpool`s trip to London to face Arsenal this weekend, joining fellow midfielder Joe Allen on the sidelines. Lucas Leiva is rumoured to be facing the exist door, with this potentially spelling out a chance for young Jordan Rossiter to get a chance in the first team.

With just over 10 minutes to kick off, we`ve been told that over 100 scouts have booked tickets for tonight`s game. Plenty of loan chances will become available for many of the youngsters.

While Everton have handed a debut to Mason Holgate who has recently joined Everton from Barnsley

Liverpool have made 4 changes from their opening day defeat to Chelsea, namely, Tiago Ilori enters the frame following a number of loan spells. The likes of Ilori and Teixeira, who both play tonight have been deemed first team members by under 21 manager Michael Beale.

Everton subs: Stanek, Ledson, Davies, Lavery, Robinson

Everton XI: Hewelt, Jones, Connolly, Pennington, Holgate, Walsh, Williams (c), Grant, Evans, Byrne, McAleny

Liverpool subs: Chirivella, Firth, Kent, Brewitt, O'Hanlon.

Liverpool XI: Fulton, Randall, Maguire, Cleary, Ilori, Rossiter, Canos, Brannagan, Dunn, Teixeira, Wilson.

Everton's under 18 player of the year was left back, Antonee Robinson who is likely to feature heavily this season for the under 21 side. The youngster was also included in Everton's first team squad for the tour of Singapore this summer.

Another player who has bags of ability and potential is Thomas Davies, who promises to be a central figure for the young blues, as well as for his nation.

Antony Evans is certainly a name to look out for, not only in this coming season, but over the next few years, with the prolific goal scorer only 16, and has already experience of under 21 football, following a goal scoring spree with the under 18s.

Now, onto Everton, although their under 21 side didn’t impress too many spectators last term, their under 18s came in for many plaudits, with the young blues beating Liverpool 5-0 at under 18 level last season. This season, the standout performers from that past season have been promoted to David Unsworth's under 21 side.

Recently, Michael Beale has hinted that Sergi Canos and Harry Wilson will be the next of the academy youngsters to go out on loan to gain some much needed first team experience.

Rafa Paez has also departed the club recently, with the Spanish born defender returning to his native country by putting pen to paper on a deal with Alcorcon. Ryan Kent has recently signed for Championship side Mk Dons on a season long loan.

The Liverpool first team rounded off pre-season preparations last week with a trip to Swindon, where 16-year-old Trent Alexander Arnold was given a start, perhaps the Liverpool born versatile player could feature throughout the season for Michael Beale's side this season.

While the academy's brightest prospects were away with the first team squad, the rest of the youngsters travelled to Ireland. Samed Yesil, Sergi Canos, Jack Dunn, Cameron Brannagan, Alex O Hanlon, Conor Randall, Rafa Paez (who has since been sold), and Tom Brewit all being the most noticeable inclusions.

Liverpool had a host of youngster travelling with the first team squad over the summer months with, Ryan Fulton, Daniel Cleary, Joe Maguire, Jordan Rossiter, Pedro Chirivella, Ryan Kent, Harry Wilson and Sheyi Ojo all travelling to Asia and Australia with the first team squad.

Michael Beale could soon be without the talented Jerome Sinclair, who holds the record of being the youngster ever player to play for Liverpool, when he came on against West Brom in the League Cup just a week after his 16th birthday, back in 2012, with the Englishman supposedly rejecting a new contract after being left out of the first team's tour to Asia, and after rumours that the talented teenagers was training with West Brom academy coaches.

Liverpool will be without a lot of key players who helped them to an impressive second place last term, with former captain Lloyd Jones out on loan with Blackpool, while Kevin Stewart, Jordan Williams and Lawrence Vigouroux are all on loan at Swindon Town for the forthcoming season.

Last season, Liverpool finished 9 points ahead of their opponents tonight, Everton in the under 21 Premier League season, with Liverpool narrowly missing out on the title.

Everton too have begun their campaign, but the blues fell to a much superior Spurs side, as the Londoners ran out 4-1 winners.

Liverpool kick started their season recently with a tough test against Chelsea, but the young reds narrowly lost with a 93rd minute goal, meaning Liverpool remain on zero points heading into the mini derby.

In this encounter last year, Ryan Kent came to Liverpool's rescue as he ensured that Liverpool took the spoils at Goodison. While in the return fixture at Chester, Harry Wilson was the stand out player as Liverpool easily sailed past the blues.

Tonight's game will be played at Everton's temporary home ground, Southport’s Merseyrail Community Stadium.

This game will see Michael Beale, the head coach of the Liverpool under 21's squad, go head to head with their local rivals. VAVEL interviewed the talented coach recently, as he discussed the season ahead, possible out goings, and his own tactical approach.

Hello, I'm Conor Slater, and I will be bringing you through all of VAVEL UK's coverage of Liverpool under 21's encounter with Everton, in the match dubbed as the mini derby, as the youngsters from the Merseyside clubs come face to face.