European Under-17s Championship: England lose last to Spain on punishments

The up and coming era of England footballers the previous evening endured a destiny their seniors are very acquainted with when they lost the last of the Under-17 European Championship to Spain on punishments. 

Britain were driving six minutes into harm time when Nacho Díaz headed past Josef Bursik to make it 2-2 toward the finish of their 80-minute match. The diversion went straight into a punishment shootout, with England's heads plainly mixed, having been seconds from winning the competition in Croatia. 

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In the shootout, with Uefa trialing a framework like the tie-soften up tennis, with one group taking a punishment, and from there on everybody taking two consecutively, Aidan Barlow concealed the principal punishment yet he was the main England player to change over as Rhian Brewster and Joel Latibeaudiere missed. Spain's Victor Chust scored the last punishment to make it 4-1. 

Britain had led the pack following 18 minutes through Callum Hudson-Odoi despite the fact that Mateu Morey balanced before half-time in a diversion with five yellow cards. Phil Foden set England back in front following 58 minutes with Steve Cooper's men then attempting to hang on for a third Under-17 competition win in eight years, before Díaz struck profound into stoppage time. 

"We ought to be glad," said Cooper. "We've had an awesome competition and an incredible season, which I've said to the players. My feeling is pride and in spite of the fact that it doesn't feel it now this experience will be a decent one when we get over it and we can improve in future competitions." 

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