England U-19 Discussion Thread #3 (2005 born) [R]

2-0 Tayo Edun from outside the box.

 

Spain lead Belarus 2-0...

And we just scored to make it 2-0 - Tayo Edun.

 

Was just about to say how we really should be taking our chances cause goal-difference will most likely come into play between us and Spain.

 

3-0. Sam Field.

 

Both score, oops.

 

Can you do that before every game?

 

Does anyone have any idea which of Norway and Belarus should he seen as the weaker team?

 

I would presume Belarus historically as Norway can sometimes have some pretty decent players at this level.

 

I'd expect Norway to be a fair bit stronger than Belarus.

Belarus snuck in to the elite round as the best 3rd place team. They lost 5-0 to Denmark who finished bottom of their group, drew 1-1 with Portugal and then beat Bulgaria 1-0 - in a game that was a dead rubber for group winners Bulgaria - to get through.

 

My only input is that Norway has recently been okay with their youth teams than Belarus. Hard to tell, but at the we're going at I'd fancy our chances well against Belarus.

 

It would seem the coach heard u, Oxford & Buckley-Ricketts coming on
Trent-Arnold & Sterling withdrawn

 

Totally forgot about Oxford. Another weird selection to not start him, but it's worked out okay today.

 

We haven't played Edwards, Davies and Oxford today and we're dominating. Good sign.

 

Inevitably the Forrest live stream has gotten me excited to see if Brereton come on but it isn't to be as Willock replaces Sessegnon.

 

A good start, all going to come down to that Spain match though.

 

Spain won 5-0.

Pretty much have to beat them in order to qualify. Can't afford to draw & plan on battering Belarus. This was a promising display though.

 

This will be a revenge match for Spain because we knocked them out in Spain last year in the elite round.

 

I never understood why Suliman was selected in the first place - but don't know how he's done in recent times.

3-0 today seems a very good result (to me).

 

Not that it's necessarily indicative, but picking the players who've been given shirt numbers 1–11 would leave us with most of this team, but with Oxford in for Suliman and Davies in for Edun. Edwards and Willock would remain on the bench.

 

Ramsdale, Alexander-Arnold, Chalobah, Oxford, Dasilva, Davies, Edun, Mount, Sessegnon, Sterling, Brereton.