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IF IT WAS TREATS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR IN THE FORM OF INDIVIDUAL FOOTBALLING SKILLS, THEN THE LIONESSES OFFERED A SMORGASBORD LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST JAMAICA! FIRSTLY ELLA TOONE SCORED A CRACKER AT 10 MINS., (WHICH WAS TO BE THE FIRST GOAL OF A BRILLIANT BRACE, NETTING THE SECOND AT THE END OF THE FIRST-HALF IN STOPPAGE TIME AT 45 +4 MINS.), THEN IT WAS LUCY BRONZE’S TURN TO SCORE A SPECTACULAR GOAL AT 32 MINS., WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A REGULAR ‘GOALATHON’. FROM THE LIONESSES, WHICH LEFT LITTLE TIME FOR THE JAMAICAN LADIES TO COME UP FOR AIR! GEORGIA STANWAY FOLLOWED LUCY BRONZE’S GOAL WITH A BEAUT AT 59 MINS., AND ON THEY CAME, WITH ALESSIA RUSSO SCORING ANOTHER CLASS GOAL AT 71 MINS., AND AGGIE BEAVER-JONES’ SPECTACULAR GOAL AT 85 MINS., AND THEN IT ...

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 MANAGE...

WHAT AN EXCITING, AND ENERGETIC MATCH IT WAS BETWEEN THE ENGLAND U21’s AND THE NETHERLANDS U21’s ON THE 25TH JUNE 2025, IN THE SEARING HEAT OF BRATISLAVA, WITH ENGLAND MAKING 405 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAVING 12 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A BRILLIANT BRACE FROM HARVEY ELLIOTT AT 62 MINS., AND 85 MINS., RESPECTIVELY! THE NETHERLANDS MADE 448 PASSES, WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 6 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM NOAH OHIO AT 72 MINS. – WITH 1 YELLOW-CARD-A-PIECE! MEANING THAT THE YOUNG LIONS WON THE MATCH 2 – 1, AND ARE NOW THROUGH TO THE FINALS WHERE THEY WILL FACE GERMANY ON SATURDAY 28TH JUNE, HOPING TO BECOME THE FIRST NATION SINCE SPAIN TO WIN BACK-TO-BACK EUROPEAN U21 CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES!  WELL DONE YOUNG LIONS!! UN...

AS WE WAIT EXCITEDLY FOR THE ENGLAND U21’s TO PLAY THE NETHERLANDS U21’s TODAY, LET’S TAKE A LOOK BACK AT THE SUPERB MATCH BETWEEN THE YOUNG LIONS AND SPAIN, WHERE 3 CRACKERS FROM ENGLAND’S JAMES MCATEE AT 10 MINS., HARVEY ELLIOTT AT 15 MINS., AND A LATE PENALTY BY ELLIOTT ANDERSON AT 90 +4 MINS., PLUS A STUNNER FROM SPAIN’S JAVI GUERRA, WHO SCORED FROM THE SPOT RESULTED IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO THE YOUNG LIONS IN A RIVETING GAME!