BURNLEY ARE NEXT AS BLUES KIDS MARCH ON.

Byline: by JAMES PEARCE 

EVERTON YTH 2

NANTWICH TN YTH 0

EVERTON secured a trip to Burnley in the fourth round of the FA Youth Cup after a comfortable win over UniBond League outfit Nantwich at Goodison.

First team manager David Moyes watched from the Main Stand as goals in each half from Lewis Codling and Jake Bidwell secured the Blues' passage.

The margin of victory should have been much greater but Everton wasted a stack of chances.

Conor McAleny, Tom McCready and Lee McArdle all went close before they finally broke the deadlock seven minutes before the break.

Codling pounced after Nathan Craig's pass was only half cleared to the edge of the area and the Bootle-born forward fired past Marcus Cooper.

Nantwich almost equalised minutes later but Liam Prince fired over after getting in behind the Everton back-line.

In the second half Hope Akpan almost finished off a superb move between James Wallace, McCready and Codling, but the midfielder's shot from the edge of the box whistled just over.

McAleny was denied twice in quick succession just before the hour as his looping shot was clawed away by Cooper and then another effort was deflected over by Nantwich captain Adam Dawson.

From Craig's corner Everton finally made it 2-0 as England under-15s full-back Bidwell rose to head home.