England Under 19’s secured a safe passage into the UEFA European Championships this evening with a 3-1 victory over Northern Ireland, and like the Under 16’s a week before, it was the Arsenal boys who played influential roles.
Ireland began the brighter of the two sides, with Port Vale’s James Lawrie capitalising on poor defending from Jordan Spence to lash his team into a 4th minute lead.
Victor Moses and Rhys Murphy were stirred into action as England hit back, Moses’ sharp turn resulted in a corner, before Murphy’s tremendous drive ended up in the stand. However, the pressure eventually tolled, Kieran Trippier had his shot parried out, Lansbury was the grateful recipient to smash into the net from 20 yards.
England maintained the onslaught at the struggling Irish keeper Devlin, Gavin Hoyte’s burst from the back saw him cross for Moses, a finger tip save denied the come back.
The game would take a sensational twist on 38 minutes, Murphy’s side footed finish was instinctively handled on the line by Nathan Hanley, the Hull man was sent off and a penalty given. Captain Lansbury angled his effort over Devlin to make it 2-1, Henri’s second of the evening, and third in two fixtures.
The Half Time interval came and went with more dominance from England, the game should have been safe when Delfouneso was picked out by Lansbury, but the crucial third proved illusive.
Up the other end, Tommy Stewart twisted and turned inside Rodwell and Hoyte, until he stumbled and poked wide. But should there have been any doubts regarding the result, they were soon squashed.
Delfouneso exploded into space on the half way line, his perfect through ball found Murphy in the box, the 17-year-old applied a calm finish to complete the scoring on 83 minutes.
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas was an unused substitute, but other than that, it was a perfect night for the Arsenal connection, who can now look forward to facing Serbia on Monday, the winners of that encounter will go through as Group winners.
Article By – J.Sanderson
Was Lansbury captain in this match? TheFA.com says it was Jordan Spence.
Jordan Spence use to be captain for this age group, he has always been.
Just Goes To Show What Class Lansbury really Is In His Postition !!! Hes A Box To Box CM Not A RM !!! He Plays Out Wide For The reserves Doesnt Shine And People Jump On His Back!!! Just Watch His England Performances to See What He’s about !
I wish Lansbury could start in the central midfield vs. Wigan with Ramsey.
Randall is 19 now and needs loan experience. I’m not sure if he’s quite happy with just the Carling Cup…surely there must be some clubs after him after performance vs. Sheffield United. Even Gibbs needs another loan experience.
Jay, is that so, first which one of the Ramsey and Lansbury will be the DM, also too many complaining about Lansbury can only shine thru the middle but Randall played very well against Blackburn last year in RM and Merida is also current playing LM even though he is Cmidfielder and can still influence games because they both have better “game understanding” & technique than Lansbury @ this moment.
Gibbs & Randall will not be going out on loan unless a PL comes in plus Wenger doesnt want to too many 1st team players in the CC so they will be needed. Like i commented before in the previous article, opinion of Arsenal coaches matter to me more than England youth coaches in terms of Randall’s talent.
They are have gone through to the Elite Round not the U19s Finals itself
Havard Norctveit scored two goals in Norway U18s 4-2 victory over Slovenia yesterday
Am I getting it right here. This is a qualification for the U-20 next summer?
England have already qualified for WC U20 by finshing 3rd in their group at last season’s U19s championship
RAMSEY AND LANSBURY would be the best CM partnership in Great Britain i can these two starting for england 2012 for team GB
PLZ Wenger play Lanbsury in the middle the guy the best Young central midfielder we got he can score goals
j, could you give me a link for the highlights?
The Fa say they are through to the tournament, proper.
There is no video highlights as yet, i will post them up if i find them.
FA website got it wrong. 2 teams go thru in Qualifying round from each group and 1 team qualifies from each group from the elite round which is next.
Randall should not be loaned out and neither should be Gibbs. Both will be used this season. Randall has already played in the CL, and should we qualify early, then both will play in the last game against Kyiv.