![]() He continued, "The thing with Callum was he showed up brilliantly in the camps while Lee is player that there is a lot of interest in. "We have picked a slightly bigger squad, a couple extra, because there are one or two little injury concerns that we have coming into Sunday." "The likes of young Callum has been in the Under 21 camp, he has been with the senior squad and he is now with the senior squad again so it was to reward players as well for being there when it is not an easy time to be there. "We have obviously got injury problems throughout the squad and particularly with Josh and Conor both missing," said O'Neill. Meanwhile, Bonis, 23, moved into full-time football when he joined Larne from Portadown in January 2022 and he has attracted interest from a number of English clubs after spearheading the Invermen's attack as they won the Irish Premiership for the first time last season. Marshall, 18, signed his first professional contract with West Ham in November, having impressed after joining the London club from Irish Premiership side Linfield, and scored in the Hammers' Youth Cup final win over Arsenal in April. O'Neill has held camps over the past three weeks - one for the under-21s panel and two for the senior squad - to maintain the players' fitness after the end of the 2022-23 campaign. With Magennis and Washington missing through injury, O'Neill opted to include inexperienced duo Marshall and Bonis after both caught the eye in recent training camps. Youngsters performed well in training camps ![]() ![]() Preston North End midfielder Ali McCann and Blackpool forward Shayne Lavery return after missing the international games in March through injury. Midfielder Ethan Galbraith, without club after leaving Manchester United following a loan spell at Salford City, has been recalled by O'Neill, as has Portsmouth winger Paddy Lane. Sunderland defender Daniel Ballard and Rotherham United left back Shane Ferguson also miss out through injury. Strikers Josh Magennis and Conor Washington are out injured after being involved in March, while captain Steven Davis and Stuart Dallas remain unavailable with long-term injuries. Michael O'Neill's side, who opened the campaign with a 2-0 victory away to San Marino in March before losing 1-0 to Finland in Belfast, then host Kazakhstan at Windsor Park on 19 June. NI face Denmark in Copenhagen next Friday night in their third qualifier. The Bolton Wanderers defender withdrew on Thursday with an ankle problem. It was originally a 28-strong squad but Eoin Toal has pulled out with injury. You can listen back to our podcast via the player below or by clicking here.Defender Jonny Evans, relegated with Leicester City last season, returns and will likely be captain. We also hear from Francis Jeffers, who missed the Watford tie because he’d been rushed to hospital in the middle of the night, and from Danny Cadamarteri who played in the cup final three days before being a part of Howard Kendall’s squad that played the all-important relegation match against Coventry City! He tells us about the future defender who, at the time, was a ‘Roy Keane-type midfielder’, recalls taking the wrong boots to Watford in the quarter-final on a freezing night, and how he experienced the high of scoring in the first leg of the final and the low of missing the glorious return game through injury. Leon Osman, who would go on to play more than 400 Senior Men's games for Everton, was an integral part of the successful squad and in this latest Official Everton Podcast he looks back over the games and the players who brought the Youth Cup to Goodison. Under the tutelage of the legendary Colin Harvey, the young Blues brushed aside all before them before securing the trophy for the third time. This year marks the 25 th anniversary of Everton’s 1997/98 FA Youth Cup success.
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