Goals from Divin Mubama and Tyrique George ensured England’s Under-21s maintained their 100% record in Euro 2027 qualifying with victory against the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n
In wet and windy conditions at Birmingham’s St Andrew’s Stadium, Lee Carsley’s side got the win they needed to make it four wins from four games.<\/p>\n
Both goals came in the second half, although England had a golden chance to take the lead midway through the first 45 minutes when they were awarded a penalty after Chelsea forward George was fouled inside the box, but Mubama saw his tame effort saved.<\/p>\n
Chelsea’s Jamie Gittens then had a header saved but chances were at a premium in the difficult conditions.<\/p>\n
However, England had another chance to convert a penalty when Lewis Hall was fouled in the second half.<\/p>\n
Manchester City youngster Mubama, who is on loan at Stoke this season, stepped up again despite his first-half miss but this time managed to squeeze home his spot-kick.<\/p>\n
The Republic of Ireland pushed for an equaliser in the latter stages and Jacob Devaney went close but sent his shot over the bar.<\/p>\n
However, George gave England the much-needed breathing space they needed when he hammered home a fine strike shortly before full-time.<\/p>\n
The result means England are second in Group D with 12 points, one behind leaders Slovakia who have played a game more, while the Republic of Ireland are third on seven points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goals from Divin Mubama and Tyrique George ensured England’s Under-21s maintained their 100% record in Euro 2027 qualifying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-285059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}