WHAT A MAGNIFICENT, AND WELL-ORGANISED PERFORMANCE FROM THE YOUNG LIONS LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST GERMANY! FIRSTLY, HARVEY ELLIOTT NETTED THE MOST SUPERB GOAL IN UNDER 5 MINUTES, WHICH SENT A WAVE OF EXCITEMENT AROUND THE TEHELNE POLE STADIUM TO ALL THE ENGLAND FANS, AND THOSE WATCHING AT HOME, WITH ALL REALISING THAT THIS WAS TO BE YET ANOTHER CLASS ACT FROM THE YOUNG LIONS! AND THEN, IT WAS OVER TO OMARI HUTCHINSON TO SCORE AT 24 MINS., AFTER A CHEEKY PASS FROM JAMES MCATEE (WHERE THEY LOOKED ALMOST ‘IN SYNC’) – CUE HIS SUPERB ACROBATIC CELEBRATION OF A CARTWHEEL AND BACKFLIP, WHICH FANS ADORED! THIS NOW MEANT THAT ENGLAND HAD SCORED 2 GOALS IN UNDER 25 MINS! AND THEN, JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME, (IN STOPPAGE TIME AT 45 +1 MINS.,) GERMANY’S NELSON WIEPER MANAGED TO HEAD ONE PAST JAMES BEADLE, (HIS 4TH CONSECUTIVE GAME WITH A GOAL), MEANING THAT THE MATCH WAS 2 – 1 TO ENGLAND BEFORE THE BREAK. GERMANY HAD 16 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER GOAL FROM PAUL NEBEL AT 61 MINS., WHICH MEANT THAT THE MATCH WAS NOW 2 – 2 AFTER 90 MINS. ENGLAND HAD 14 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, AND ENDED UP WITH 3 GOALS, AS IT WAS IN EXTRA TIME THAT LEE CARSLEY BROUGHT ON THE ‘FRESH LEGS’ OF JONATHAN ROWE, (WITH SUCH SWELTERING CONDITIONS, IT MUST HAVE SEEMED LIKE THE RIGHT TIME), AND HE WAS PROVED RIGHT, BECAUSE WITHIN 2 MINS., JONATHAN ROWE HAD NETTED THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS HEADER, SEALING THE WIN FOR THE YOUNG LIONS 3 -2! THIS MEANS THAT ENGLAND HAVE NOW WON BACK-TO-BACK EUROPEAN U21 CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES! MANY CONGRATULATIONS YOUNG LIONS! WHAT AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT!
ENGLAND U21’s ARE BACK-TO-BACK EUROPEAN U21’s CHAMPIONS!
AS ALWAYS, THE EXTREMELY HUMBLE LEE CARSLEY TAKES NO CREDIT AT ALL FOR THE YOUNG LIONS’ ACHIEVEMENTS (BUT PERHAPS HE SHOULD REALLY TAKE JUST A LITTLE CREDIT…?)
THE ENGLAND U21’s ARE CROWNED EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS FOR A 2ND TIME – MORE HIGHLIGHTS!
