Newcastle United star helps Young Lions to amazing win after 1 down with 2 minutes left
Lewis Hall and his international teammates experiencing a night of high drama in this U21 Euros group qualifier.
A sold out Vitality Stadium saw the Young Lions by far the most dominant team and it looked only a matter of time before they scored.
When a goal did come though, it was for the away side. A great corner delivery from the right saw often Newcastle United linked James Trafford all over the place, totally failing to deal with the ball in, with Mykhavko heading home from very close in at the back post in the 70th minute.
With a couple of minutes to go the situation looked hopeless, only for then a superb James McAtee free-kick to give the keeper no chance, going in off the bar.
England having deserved the win but relieved to get a draw.
However, very late drama as with England pressing for the winner and Ukraine defending frantically, the ball fell to James McAtee in the box. He lashed it home and great scenes as the Young Lions celebrated an amazing comeback.
Another excellent performance with the England Under 21s for Lewis Hall, looking a real class act, especially when going forward. A couple of very good attacking moves involving him can be seen early in these match highlights below, the Newcastle United defender also getting himself yellow carded between the two England goals.
Final score:
England Under 21s 2 Ukraine Under 21s 1
England team:
1 James Trafford (Burnley), 3 Lewis Hall (Newcastle United), 4 Jarell Quansah (Liverpool), 5 Taylor Harwood-Bellis (Southampton), 6 Tyler Morton (Liverpool), 7 Omari Hutchinson (Ipswich Town), 9 Liam Delap (Ipswich Town), 10 James McAtee (Manchester City), 11 Jaden Philogene (Aston Villa), 14 Jack Hinshelwood (Brighton & Hove Albion), 18 Archie Gray (Tottenham Hotspur)
Substitutes:
20 Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa) for Gray 64ā, 21 Jamie Gittens (Borussia Dortmund) for Hutchinson 64ā, 16 Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest) for Morton 78ā, 17 Samuel Iling-Junior (Bologna, on loan from Aston Villa) for Philogene 84ā
This is the October 2024 international schedule for Newcastle United players:
Thursday 10 October
England 1 Greece 2
Nick Pope and Tino Livramento watched from the bench as Anthony Gordon started, with Odysseas Vlachidomos in goal for Greece in this Nations League group game.
Lee Carsley going with an experimental set-up that saw Bellingham play as a false number nine, Gordon on the left wing.
A team that failed on the night, whatever the system. This was no flukey win as Greece had the ball in the back of the net five times, only for VAR and the linesmanās flag to save them on three occasions. England only had two efforts on target all night, both from Bellingham ā one bringing a brilliant save from the Newcastle keeper and the other one he was unsighted for and unlucky with, as he still got a hand to it.
Saka, Gordon and Foden all replaced in the second half but it made no difference, only Bellingham emerging with any credit.
As much as you can say things didnāt work out going forward, England lost because Pickford and his defence were absolutely woeful. Whilst Vlachodimos and Greece have only lost one (not including a penalty shootout v Georgia) of their last nine now and that was to an 89th minute goal away against Germany.
Chile 1 Brazil 2
Bruno Guimaraes was one of the players dropped for this World Cup group qualifier, a desperate Dorival Junior under extreme pressure, having only won three of his last nine games, after having won at Wembley against England in March, in his first game in charge.
The changes only made things worse! Even though Brazil up against second bottom of the group Chile.
Vargas gave Chile the lead after only two minutes and indeed could and should have been at least two or three up by the break.
Instead, Brazil carried their luck and Igor Jesus gave them an undeserved equaliser with a glancing header on the stroke of half-time. That could have been easily disallowed as it looked a foul in the build up before the cross was put in.
Even despite that goal, Dorival Junior had seen enough. Gerson and Bruno Guimaraes brought on for the second-half.
That did prompt some improvement and Brazil would have taken the lead, as a move initiated by a great pass from Bruno Guimaraes, then saw Raphina released just inside the Chile half, he put the ball in the net but replays showed heād gone too soon and was offside.
Reaching the 89th minute another dismal result in prospect for Brazil. Then Bruno Guimaraes picked the ball up and passed to Luiz Henrique, who produced a wonderful finish to win it so late!
Italy 2 Belgium 2
Sandro Tonali put in another excellent performance in this latest Nations League match.
The Newcastle United midfielder helping his team go two up inside 25 minutes, only for a daft Pellegrini studs-up challenge seeing a red card setback for Italy on 40 minutes.
Having to play for around an hour with 10 men, Italy did really well to end up with a point, as Belgium brought it back to 2-2 with goals on 42 and 61 minutes.
Sandro Tonali one of a number of late substitutions, as the Newcastle star and others taken off so fresh legs could see out the draw.
Ecuador 0 Paraguay 0
A great battling performance, perfectly summed up by Miguel Almiron putting in his usual hard working shift.
Ecuador were fourth in the South American World Cup qualifying group ahead of this match and Paraguay eighth.
The visitors only had two efforts on target but restricted Ecuador to only five of their own, despite the hosts having 15 shots in total and 77% possession. Ecuador making 623 completed passes compared to only 189 for Paraguay.
Paraguay using all of their five subs as they saw out this excellent away draw, Miguel Almiron subbed on 75 minutes after a non-stop performance, playing in a more central free role as he usually does for his country.
Friday 11 October
England U21s 2 Ukraine U21s 1
Lewis Hall and his international teammates experiencing a night of high drama in this U21 Euros group qualifier.
The Young Lions by far the most dominant team but a corner delivery from the right saw often Newcastle United linked James Trafford all over the place, totally failing to deal with the ball in, with Mykhavko heading home from very close in at the back post in the 70th minute.
Then with a couple of minutes to go and the situation looking hopeless, a superb James McAtee free-kick gave the keeper no chance, going in off the bar.
However, then very late drama as with England pressing for the winner and Ukraine defending frantically, the ball fell to James McAtee in the box. He lashed it home for his second goal and great scenes as the Young Lions celebrated an amazing comeback.
Another excellent performance with the England Under 21s for Lewis Hall, looking a real class act, especially when going forward. The Newcastle United defender also getting himself yellow carded between the two England goals.
Sunday 13 October
Finland v England (Nick Pope, Tino Livramento, Anthony Gordon) Nations League
Greece v Republic of Ireland (Odysseas Vlachidomos) Nations League
Monday 14 October
Italy v Israel (Sandro Tonali) Nations League
Estonia v Sweden (Emil Krafth) Nations League
Tuesday 15 October
Paraguay v Venezuela (Miguel Almiron) World Cup group qualifier (UK time, kick-off early hours of Wednesday)
Brazil v Peru (Bruno Guimaraes) World Cup group qualifier (UK time, kick-off early hours of Wednesday)
England U21s v Azerbaijan U21s (Lewis Hall) U21 Euros group qualifier
Denmark U21s v Iceland U21s (Will Osula) U21s Euros group qualifier
