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Young Lions breeze past Slovenia to qualify for Euro finals

Saturday 25 Mar 2017
England U17s have qualified for the Euro finals

England qualified for the UEFA European U17 Championship finals after cruising to a 4-0 win over Slovenia on Saturday.

Steve Cooper’s side went into match off the back of a 5-3 win over Czech Republic and they were soon among the goals again as Manchester City attacker Jadon Sancho fired the Young Lions ahead on 25 minutes.

England 4-0 Slovenia
  • UEFA European U17 Championship
  • Elite Qualifying Round
  • Saturday 25 March 2017
  • in Bijeljina, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Timothy Eyoma, of Tottenham Hotspur, doubled the lead before the half-hour mark and Reading’s Daniel Loader made it 3-0 on 54 minutes.

And Sanchon sealed a second successive win four minutes from the end.

With two wins from two, England are guaranteed to be at least one of the seven best runners-up from the eight qualifying groups.

They round off their qualifying campaign against host nation Bosnia on Tuesday and a point would be good enough to finish top of Group 7.

England won the U17 Euros in 2010 and 2014.

England: 13 Josef Bursik (AFC Wimbledon), 2 Timothy Eyoma (Tottenham Hotspur), 3 Lewis Gibson (Newcastle United), 4 George McEachran (Chelsea), 5 Marc Guehi (capt; Chelsea), 6 Jonathan Panzo (Chelsea), 7 Phil Foden (Manchester City), 8 Nya Kirby (Crystal Palace), 9 Rhian Brewster (Liverpool), , 11 Jadon Sancho (Manchester City), 16 Daniel Loader (Reading).

Substitutes: 12 Tashon Oakley-Booth (Tottenham Hotspur) for Brewster 61, 10 Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) for Foden 66, 14 Morgan Gibbs-White (Wolverhampton Wanderers) for McEachran 74.

Substitutes not used: 1 Thomas McGill (Brighton & Hove Albion), 15 Steven Sessegnon (Fulham), 17 Kane Wilson (West Bromwich Albion), 18 Stephen Walker (Middlesbrough).

Goals: Sancho 25, 76, Eyoma 29, Loader 54

Bookings: Gibson 47, Kirby 65

Head coach: Steve Cooper

By FA Staff