{"id":135520,"date":"2025-05-27T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135520\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:05:10","slug":"watford-youngster-claims-an-assist-on-his-england-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135520\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford youngster claims an assist on his England debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amin<\/p>\n

Amin Nabizada (Image: Alan Cozzi)<\/p>\n

Amin Nabizada claimed an assist on his debut for England Under-18\u2019s as they beat Morocco 3-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Watford forward had missed a chance to make his Three Lions bow earlier in the season when he was selected but had\u00a0to withdraw due to injury.<\/p>\n

However, he was back to fitness and started the first of two games against Morocco at the national football centre, Complexe Mohammed VI de Football in Sal\u00e9.<\/p>\n

And a memorable day for Nabizada got even better when he set up England\u2019s third goal.<\/p>\n

Fellow debutant Wes Okoduwa of Wolves beat three opposition players with some excellent wing play before releasing Nabizada.<\/p>\n

The Watford youngster\u2019s first-time cross was met by Liverpool\u2019s Josh Sonni-Lambie who finished superbly.<\/p>\n

The Young Lions had taken the lead after only six minutes through Crystal Palace striker Jesse Derry.<\/p>\n

A flowing move down the right-hand side ended with Derry finding the back of the net with a tidy finish from the edge of the six-yard box after meeting a cross from Manchester City full-back Kian Noble.<\/p>\n

Liam Bramley\u2019s side doubled their lead with 41 minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n

Derry was on target once again, this time linking up with Reading\u2019s Andre Garcia, whose cross from the by-line picked out the forward in the right place at the right time to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n

The hosts grabbed a consolation late in the day \u2013 a deflection leaving England keeper Oliver Whatmuff of Manchester City with no chance of making a save \u2013 as it finished 3-1.<\/p>\n

The Young Lions will wrap up their season with a second match-up against Morocco tomorrow (Wednesday, 6pm UK time) when England look to make it two wins from as many outings in the international window.<\/p>\n

For Nabizada it caps off an excellent season which saw him make his first-team debut as a substitute at Fulham in the FA Cup in January, quickly followed by a league debut off the bench against Leeds the following month.<\/p>\n

A regular scorer for the Under-18s, Nabizada helped them reach the semi-final of the FA Youth Cup as well as the Premier Development League South Play-Off Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amin Nabizada (Image: Alan Cozzi) Amin Nabizada claimed an assist on his debut for England Under-18\u2019s as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[59409,748,1925,393,1625,4884,179,886,6489,16,15,35555,5774],"class_list":{"0":"post-135520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-amin-nabizada","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crystal-palace","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-fulham","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-manchester-city","16":"tag-morocco","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-watford","20":"tag-wolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114579002123674635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}