thrashed Haiti 8-1<\/a> in their last outing but needed to win this fixture to secure qualification for the next round.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
England began the game brightly and went ahead in the 14th minute, when Reigan Heskey weaved past his markers to pick out the bottom-right corner.<\/p>\n
The Manchester City starlet should have doubled the lead when Chizaram Ezenwata set him up, but this time he could not find the back of the net.<\/p>\n
Egypt eventually grew into the game and thought they had drawn level, but their equaliser was ruled offside.<\/p>\n
England had goalkeeper Jack Porter to thank, as the Arsenal youngster\u2019s heroics prevented the Pharaohs from restoring parity before the end of the first half.<\/p>\n
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Porter was brilliant again early in the second half, keeping out Belal Attia and Ibrahim El Nagaawy\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n
England doubled their lead against the run of play as Heskey raced through on goal after receiving a pass from Luca Williams-Barnett on the counter and slotted the ball between the goalkeeper\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n
The Manchester City forward missed a chance to net a hat-trick from the penalty spot, with the Egyptian goalkeeper saving his effort.<\/p>\n
Harrison Miles completed the scoring on the stroke of full-time, running the length of the field before applying the finish from an acute angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England U17s booked their place in the U17 World Cup round of 32 after a convincing 3-0 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[498,49,48,17706,125819,19977,125820,47660,125822,561,82,125821],"class_list":["post-275087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-egypt","tag-england-u17s","tag-haiti","tag-jack-porter","tag-man-city","tag-reigan-heskey","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-knockout-stage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275087","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=275087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}