ENGLAND UNDER 17'S IN THE ALGARVE - Event Date: 09/February/2018 - 13/February/2018

Your chance to see the rejects of the future, condemned to play forever in the darker reaches of English football because Belgian, Egyptian, Spanish and French players are better.

Fixtures

Portugal v England Friday 9th February at Ferreiras FC ko 1500hrs
Germany v England Sunday 11th February at the Estádio Algarve ko 1400hrs
Netherlands v England Tuesday 13th February at the Estádio Algarve ko 1400hrs

Other games

Holland v Germany Friday 9th February at Lagos ko 1400
Portugal v Netherlands Sunday 11th February at Parchal ko 1400
Portugal v Germany Tuesday 13th at Parchal ko 1500

Official poster at http://www.afalgarve.pt/pdf/2017_18/41_torneio_Algarve_SUB17.pdf

Beware the lack of public transport to the Algarve Stadium also on Tuesday 13th which is Carnaval therefore Sunday times on trains and buses.

Official poster - sorry original a bit small. Fixtures as above.

Algarveaddick wrote: Portugal U17 4 - 0 England U17 A dismal performance from the Young Lions at Estadio da Nora. For Twenty minutes the Portuguese lads hardly touched the ball, unfortunately neither did their keeper. It was all frighteningly familiar as an England fan, all the possession with no end product. The solitary poke at the onion bag coming via a half shot from England full back, Clint Mola which was easily gathered by Portugal's Tabuaco. Just before the half hour mark, a pacey run to the right hand by-line and a cut back across the six yard box by Embalo, lead to a poorly marked Goncalo Gomes rifling the ball into the goal. After this the Portuguese virtually took control, a complete turn around to what had gone before. On the stroke of half time a carbon copy move to that which lead to the first goal bought the Portuguese boys a second, Gomes again the beneficiary. In the second half England were a little better, but still only once troubled Tabuaco - Mola again the provider of a fairly tame shot that the Portuguese net-minder gathered easily once again.   The enormous England goalkeeper, Arsenal's Arthur Okonkwo, who failed to inspire much confidence throughout, had to shoulder some of the blame for Portugal's two further strikes. A shot from the left hand side of the area was palmed back into the danger zone, and the lively Embalo pounced to shoot home from twelve yards. Similarly a poor parry lead to the Portuguese fourth, the ball bouncing into the path of substitute Felix Correia who gleefully smashed it into the top right hand corner to complete the rout. England coach Steve Cooper, who was strangely subdued until a couple of late corners, where he barked a few instructions about marking, will really have to go back to the drawing board if the Young Lions are going to get anything from Germany or The Netherlands in their other two fixtures. Starting Line Ups... Portugal: Tabuaco (Vitoria Guimaraes) Tavares (Benfica) Faustino (Porto) Saldanha (Benfica) Ferreira (Benfica) Fernandes (Sporting) Jocu (Benfica) Cunha (Benfica) Tavares (Benfica) Gomes (Benfica) Embalo (Benfica) England: Okonkwo (Arsenal) Mola (Chelsea) Alese (West Ham) Binks (Spurs) Daley-Campbell (Arsenal) Doyle (Man City) Anjorin (Chelsea) Tulloch (West Brom) Coyle (Arsenal) Amaechi (Arsenal) John-Jules (Arsenal)

tonisdad wrote: Algarveaddick wrote: Portugal U17 4 - 0 England U17 A dismal performance from the Young Lions at Estadio da Nora. For Twenty minutes the Portuguese lads hardly touched the ball, unfortunately neither did their keeper. It was all frighteningly familiar as an England fan, all the possession with no end product. The solitary poke at the onion bag coming via a half shot from England full back, Clint Mola which was easily gathered by Portugal's Tabuaco. Just before the half hour mark, a pacey run to the right hand by-line and a cut back across the six yard box by Embalo, lead to a poorly marked Goncalo Gomes rifling the ball into the goal. After this the Portuguese virtually took control, a complete turn around to what had gone before. On the stroke of half time a carbon copy move to that which lead to the first goal bought the Portuguese boys a second, Gomes again the beneficiary. In the second half England were a little better, but still only once troubled Tabuaco - Mola again the provider of a fairly tame shot that the Portuguese net-minder gathered easily once again.   The enormous England goalkeeper, Arsenal's Arthur Okonkwo, who failed to inspire much confidence throughout, had to shoulder some of the blame for Portugal's two further strikes. A shot from the left hand side of the area was palmed back into the danger zone, and the lively Embalo pounced to shoot home from twelve yards. Similarly a poor parry lead to the Portuguese fourth, the ball bouncing into the path of substitute Felix Correia who gleefully smashed it into the top right hand corner to complete the rout. England coach Steve Cooper, who was strangely subdued until a couple of late corners, where he barked a few instructions about marking, will really have to go back to the drawing board if the Young Lions are going to get anything from Germany or The Netherlands in their other two fixtures. Starting Line Ups... Portugal: Tabuaco (Vitoria Guimaraes) Tavares (Benfica) Faustino (Porto) Saldanha (Benfica) Ferreira (Benfica) Fernandes (Sporting) Jocu (Benfica) Cunha (Benfica) Tavares (Benfica) Gomes (Benfica) Embalo (Benfica) England: Okonkwo (Arsenal) Mola (Chelsea) Alese (West Ham) Binks (Spurs) Daley-Campbell (Arsenal) Doyle (Man City) Anjorin (Chelsea) Tulloch (West Brom) Coyle (Arsenal) Amaechi (Arsenal) John-Jules (Arsenal)   Looks like whoever selects the England team seems to think England is mainly inside the M25.

Lofters reports "U17s was a 1-1 draw  England in front on the hour via Bobby Duncan [Man City..... see what happens when they pick Northerners!]. Germany equalised with a pen 13 minutes later.

Oops, it was six points from THREE games, of course.