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<\/p>\nEthan Nwaneri and Jobe Bellingham scored as Lee Carsley’s new-look England Under-21s squad laid down an early marker in their Euro 2027 qualifying campaign with a 2-0 win in Kazakhstan.\n<\/p>\n
The Young Lions – who had successfully defended their Euros title in Slovakia earlier this summer – struck twice in five minutes during the first half through Nwaneri and the younger Bellingham brother.<\/p>\n
Just two players from Carsley’s starting XI for the extra-time win over Germany in the Euro 2025 final had been named in Monday’s team – goalkeeper James Beadle and Jack Hinshelwood.<\/p>\n
Chelsea defender Josh Acheampong and forward Divin Mubama, on loan at Stoke from Manchester City, were handed their debuts while Bellingham – who was away at the Club World Cup with Borussia Dortmund during the summer – took on the captaincy.<\/p>\n
England made a bright start as Brooke Norton-Cuffy, who had come off the bench in the final, sent in a low cross from the right, which Mubama could only stab straight at the Kazakhstan keeper.<\/p>\n
After Beadle made a straightforward save from Ayan Baidavletov, England went ahead in the 18th minute.<\/p>\n
Mubama knocked down a high ball into the penalty area and Arsenal midfielder Nwaneri – another of Carsley’s successful summer squad – drilled in a low shot from the edge of the box. England struck again five minutes later when Bellingham got up to head in from Tyler Dibling’s corner.<\/p>\n
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\n Lee Carsley has a new-look England Under-21s team<\/p>\n
Nwaneri went close to a third just before half-time when his 20-yard free-kick was palmed away by Kazakhstan keeper Dulat Talyspayev.<\/p>\n
Kazakhstan pressed at the start of the second half, with Ramazan Bagdat forcing Beadle into a smart reaction save. Carsley sent on Crystal Palace forward Romain Esse for his Under-21s debut just after the hour, replacing Dibling.<\/p>\n
Astana midfielder Nurali Zhaksylyk curled a late effort just wide for the hosts as England closed out a solid performance.<\/p>\n
England next face a trip to Moldova in October’s internationals before hosting Andorra at Derby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Nwaneri and Jobe Bellingham scored as Lee Carsley’s new-look England Under-21s squad laid down an early marker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-129697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}