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  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    90+2’ The end is called, 7-0 to England, who finished the night with a goalkeeper playing up front and a centre back on the right wing. Bizarre but morale-boosting win for England.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    90+1’ Rodwell on the ball on the right, he cuts inside, beats two men and hits a shot with the outside of his right, it takes a wicked deflection and loops over the keeper for 7-0.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    86'’ AZERI SUB: Rahimov on for Jafarguliev.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    84'’ England surge forward again, Gibbs on the left with a superb cross and Rose flies in but his header spins just wide of the far post!

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    83'’ ENGLAND SUB: Loach comes on but he goes in goal, for Hart.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    75'’ Keeper Joe Lewis has warmed up but he is wearing a white shirt, yes, he will play outfield. Off comes Lee Cattermole.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    70'’ Johnson to Taylor, he plays a great ball down to Rose on the left, he flies into space and drills it low to the far post and in slides Gibbs for his second and England's sixth!

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    67'’ Ball over the top sends Rose in on the edge of the box, he beats one man and has the space to shoot but tries to beat another, and then plays it to an Azeri defender and they clear! He had a great chance to make it six there.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    64'’ England surge forward with Rose on the right, loads of space for the Spurs youngster and he whips a low cross in for GIBBS WHO SLOTS IT INTO THE TOP LEFT FOR 5-0! Good goal, Gibbs scores on his full U21 debut.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    63'’ ENGLAND SUB: Oddly, Stuart Pearce leaves Mancienne on the pitch and introduces centre half Richard Stearman for Campbell.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    58'’ Johnson then to swing in the free-kick on the left-hand edge of the box AND CATTERMOLE FLIES IN WITH A BULLET HEADER BUT A WONDERFUL POINT-BLANK STOP FROM THE KEEPER! He looked dodgier than a UKIP ballot slip in the first half but his shot stopping has been exceptional since.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    57'’ Mammadov destroys Campbell on the edge of the box and it's a yellow card.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    55'’ ENGLAND SUB: Danny Rose is on for Noble.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    54'’ Good run down the left by Taylor on the overlap, great cross too and Cattermole with the volley into the ground but hacked awkwardly into his own net by Mammadov! 4-0 England.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    52'’ Johnson to swing the corner in from the left and he plops it in the six-yard box and CAMPBELL FLIES IN WITH A POWER HEADER OFF THE BAR AND AWAY!

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    51'’ Gibbs on the left wing swings over an excellent cross and Rodwell flies in with the flicked header but a spectacular acrobatic save from Sadiqov! Corner.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    48'’ Campbell turns on the right wing, he cuts inside and glides past three men before hammering a vicious drive across goal but a superb save by Sadiqov to tip it round for a corner! First decent thing the keeper has done all night.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    46'’ Second half underway!!

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

      HALF-TIME SUBS FOR ENGLAND: Gardner, and Muamba off; Rodwell, Taylor on. Gibbs moves to the left wing, Johnson goes right.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    45+1’ Half-time, 3-0 to England and all too easy for England.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    41'’ Gardner slides Johnson in on the left, he beats one man, then tries another and his touch is heavy but he keeps it in but the cross swings just out to Noble's irritance. Now Campbell in but he can't get the shot away and the visitors clear.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    34'’ Abdullayev hits it low and the ball deflects off the wall and wide for a corner... The ball is sent in low by Adbullayev, Tomkins slips and JAFARGULIEV MUST MAKE IT 3-1 BUT HE SOMEHOW PUTS IT JUST WIDE!

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    32'’ Aliyev tries an outrageous lob that catches Hart out but the City keeper gets back to top it away from just under the bar!

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    31'’ Mancienne plays a long diagonal ball from the half-way line, it sends Gardner clean through, he's on-side, takes it on his chest and rifles the ball through the keeper for 3-0! One goal and two assists for the Villa man, playing in utterly the wrong position on the right wing.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    26'’ Cranie gets down the right overlapping with Gardner, he puts it in low, flicked back by Campbell and Gardner drills a low shot that hits the post and rebounds off poor Sadiqov and into the net for 2-0!

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    22'’ Gardner to take then... and he goes for goal, straight at the keeper but he drops it and Campbell must score but he slips and puts it over! The ball landed just behind Campbell but any kind of clean contact and that would have been 2-0.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    13'’ Great ball from Gibbs on the left, Campbell is onside and clean through but unfortunately the ball skips up off the turf on to his arm before he finishes past Sadiqov, unfortunate and unintentional but too obvious not to call.

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    1'’ Corner to England on the right, good early pressure from the hosts from kick-off. Johnson will swing it in left-footed, great delivery and Gardner rises with a header back across goal, off the bar and it falls to Mancienne who smashes it in!! 1-0 to England after 48 seconds!

  • England U-21-Azerbaijan U-21

    1'’ First half underway!!

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    FT’ And the match finishes bang on 90 minutes. Italy win with ease but a decent performance for Northern Ireland's youngsters.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    82'’ Martin Donnelly comes on now for Northern Ireland and Andrew Little makes way.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    80'’ Pellissier is free one-on-one with Mannus but the Linfield man makes a great save.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    78'’ Northern Ireland make another change - Newcastle youngster Shane Ferguson comes on for his debut with Manchester United youth player Corry Evans making way.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    75'’ Daniele Galloppa becomes the first Siena player to represent Italy as he comes on for D'Agostino.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    73'’ GOAL FOR PELLISSIER ON HIS DEBUT!! Brighi chipped the ball into him in the box and then with his back to goal he turned so well before firing a great shot into the net.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    71'’ Carson wins a free on the top of the "D" - McCann tries to curl the ball over the wall which he does but it goes just over the bar.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    69'’ Stephen Carson from Coleraine comes on for his debut aged 28. James Lawrie of Port Vale makes way.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    62'’ Chievo striker Sergio Pellissier also comes on for his debut - Pazzini comes off.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    62'’ Northern Ireland bring on two players from Belfast club Linfield. Goalkeeper Alan Mannus and young Robert Garrett for his debut. Off go Tuffey and O'Connor.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    57'’ Well the changes made at half-time were - ON: Dossena, Palombo, Brighi and Foggia. OFF: Grosso, Gattuso, Montolivo and Mascara.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    56'’ D'Agostino now powers a shot on target and Tuffey has to tip it over. And then the corner directly hits the post!!! All Italy now.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    55'’ SAVED ONTO THE POST FROM TUFFEY THOUGH!! Great save to deny Pazzini.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    54'’ PENALTY ITALY - Tuffey brings down Pazzini and is lucky to stay on the pitch as the striker looked to round him.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    53'’ But they have scored now - a lovely goal too from Pasquale Foggia - after a fine ball from Rossi he skipped past his man into the box and calmly scooped it past Tuffey. He only came on at half-time but what an impact.

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    46'’ And we are back underway and Italy have made four changes at the break - we will let you know what those changes are when we know ourselves!

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    HT’ There is the half-time whistle and NI have done well to keep this down to just 1-0 at the interval. Italy could easily be three or four ahead

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    45'’ Healy is taken off after picking up what looks like a groin strain while attempting that shot from distance and that's a massive blow for the visitors

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    24'’ Ooooh! NI concede a corner and very nearly concede a second goal as Gamberini heads towards goal. It takes two last-ditch headers from Johnson to clear off the line before Tuffey can collect the loose ball and NI really need to pull themselves together quickly

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    19'’ GOALISSIMO! Rossi picks up the ball inside the NI half, strides out to the edge of the area under very little pressure indeed and boots an absolute bullet of a shot into the back left hand corner of the net, just out of reach of the diving Tuffey

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    16'’ PAZZINI! The Italy striker really should have done better with his shot from just outside the area but Coates did just enough to put him off and the shot flies over the bar

  • Italy-Northern Ireland

    1'’ Nigel Worthington's Northern Ireland get the clash underway ...

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