{"id":123552,"date":"2025-09-08T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123552\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:15:07","slug":"england-news-conference-as-thomas-tuchel-and-harry-kane-talk-to-media-before-serbia-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123552\/","title":{"rendered":"England news conference as Thomas Tuchel and Harry Kane talk to media before Serbia match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young Lions begin Euro defence with victorypublished at 18:31 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

18:31 BST<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan Under-21s 0-2 England Under-21s<\/p>\n

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Borussia Dortmund’s Jobe Bellingham scored his first goal for England Under-21s<\/p>\n

Earlier this afternoon…<\/p>\n

England Under-21s made a winning start to the defence of their European title with a comfortable victory in the opening qualifier in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

Lee Carsley’s side won the European Under-21 Championship in both 2023 and 2025, although most of the players from those successes are now too old to play in the tournament.<\/p>\n

Arsenal winger Ethan Nwaneri, 18, gave the Young Lions the lead in the 18th minute with a low strike into the bottom corner following good work by debutant Divin Mubama, who is on loan at Stoke City from Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Captain Jobe Bellingham, 19, headed in a second for England when he met a corner from Everton’s Tyler Dibling.<\/p>\n

Bellingham, the younger brother of England midfielder Jude, missed the European Under-21 Championship in the summer as he was playing for Borussia Dortmund in the Fifa Club World Cup in the United States following his \u00a327.8m move from Sunderland.<\/p>\n

Nwaneri almost added a third goal, but his curling free-kick was tipped over the top.<\/p>\n

The 2027 tournament takes place in Albania and Serbia, with both host nations qualifying automatically in the 16-country competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Lions begin Euro defence with victorypublished at 18:31 British Summer Time 18:31 BST Kazakhstan Under-21s 0-2 England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-123552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}