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Liverpool’s Under-19s will meet Juventus in the quarter-final of the UEFA Youth League after a penalty shootout win over Genk.

After Oakley Cannonier netted a close-range header in the first half, the young Reds were pegged back by Jay-Dee Guesens’ effort.

The Reds prevailed in the penalty shootout 4-3 to make it successive spot-kick triumphs for the club after Sunday’s memorable Carabao Cup win.

The ECHO’s Paul Gorst has the talking points from Kirkby.

In this calendar year alone, Jurgen Klopp has used 32 different players.

In Liverpool’s successful Carabao Cup campaign, the manager selected as many as 33.

That includes youngsters like Harvey Blair, Kaide Gordon, Tyler Morton and Conor Bradley.

Owen Beck, Billy Koumetio and Max Woltman can also count themselves as part of at least one of those two respective groups.

And of course it includes a certain Caoimhin Kelleher, whose Cup final heroics have earned him a place in not only in Anfield folklore but also a spot up on the mural of goalkeeping icons.

It was only two years ago that Kelleher was taking part in this UEFA Youth League games at Kirkby.

This week, the Irishman’s likeness has been painted alongside some of the most famous keeping custodians that the club have ever fielded.

So the message to young hopefuls at Liverpool is simple while Klopp oversees things; your chance may never been too far away.

How that must embolden the youth ranks at the Kirkby Academy when they take to action.

Such indirect inspiration must be a big motivation for the fledglings here.

There will have been no disappointment in the minds of Woltman and Melkamu Frauendorf when they lined up here against Genk, despite their senior debuts in the FA Cup earlier this year.

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