England U19s held Germany to a 5-5 draw in their U19 European championship second group game on Tuesday evening at Arcul de Triumf Stadium.<\/p>\n
Coach Will Antwi made several changes to the side that started the opening game against Norway, which could have contributed to England\u2019s poor start.<\/p>\n
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Germany took the lead inside seven minutes when Said Al Mala picked out Barcelona\u2019s Noah Darvic, who slotted the ball into the net.<\/p>\n
Al Mala doubled Germany\u2019s lead in the 31st minute, leaving England with slim hopes of qualifying for the semi-final.<\/p>\n
Four minutes later, England pulled one back through Fulham\u2019s Josh King, who struck Jayden Meghoma\u2019s cross home.<\/p>\n
On 42 minutes, Germany extended their lead as Zach Abbott deflected Kjell Watjen\u2019s effort past goalkeeper Tom Setford.<\/p>\n
Just before the end of the first half, Leopold Wurm scored from a corner-kick to give Germany a four-goal cushion.<\/p>\n
Germany started the second half strongly as Al Mala made it 5-1, leaving England with a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n
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The 2022 champions began to reduce the deficit in the 52nd minute when Manchester United\u2019s forward Ethan Wheatley scored after goalkeeper Konstantin Heide had spilled Abbott\u2019s header.<\/p>\n
Three minutes later, Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s young star Reiss Russell-Denny struck with precision to boost England\u2019s hopes of completing a comeback.<\/p>\n
On the hour mark, Abbott made amends for his early error, heading home from a corner before Crystal Palace\u2019s Jesse Derry completed the comeback in the 63rd minute.<\/p>\n
Setford made a save in injury time to deny Germany the maximum points, while Caleb Kporha also nearly scored England\u2019s winning goal.<\/p>\n
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The result confirmed the match as the highest-scoring fixture in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
England have two points from two games, but they sit second in the standings. They face the Netherlands in their final group fixture on Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England U19s held Germany to a 5-5 draw in their U19 European championship second group game on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[78896,199,78898,1925,393,27439,2000,299,1625,1824,78899,98,1115,201,78895,78897],"class_list":{"0":"post-193263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-arcul-de-triumf","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-caleb-kporha","11":"tag-crystal-palace","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-ethan-wheatley","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-fulham","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-jayden-meghoma","19":"tag-manchester-united","20":"tag-norway","21":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","22":"tag-u19","23":"tag-zach-abbott"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702023818440316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193263","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=193263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}