England Under-21 matchwinner Anthony Gordon finds room for improvement – Soccer News

England Underneath-21s’ match-winner Anthony Gordon was annoyed to not have taken extra probabilities to make their 1-0 European Championship quarter-final victory over Portugal extra comfy.

Nonetheless, he praised the resilience of the facet after a fourth successive clear sheet on the event. England’s kids got here beneath late stress from their opponents, who got here closest to equalising when Henrique Araujo’s header rebounded off the crossbar.

“You’re going to get probabilities and it’s as much as me to complete them,” Newcastle winger Gordon, taking part in as a central striker, stated in his post-match press convention after sweeping dwelling within the thirty fourth minute.

“I most likely ought to have had one or two extra, which I’m a bit gutted about.

“I’m extraordinarily drained however blissful for the win, blissful for the character we confirmed as a staff, the way in which we dug in.

“We’ve had a whole lot of high performances to this point on this event and at the moment was a very totally different problem, a very totally different recreation the place that they had a whole lot of the ball and we got here by it and dug in as a staff.

“We haven’t had that check (beforehand). We haven’t had that chance to point out we’ve acquired that facet to our recreation and tonight we acquired to – and we undoubtedly proved ourselves in that.”

England are into the semi-finals of the competitors for the primary time since 2017 and they’re going to meet Israel, whom they beat 2-0 within the group stage, on Wednesday.

“We discovered the sport in opposition to Israel tough. They’re such a compact, well-organised staff and we should be at our greatest to beat them,” stated England supervisor Lee Carsley, who was additionally impressed along with his facet’s defensive show in opposition to Portugal.

He added: “I undoubtedly think about Portugal probably the greatest groups we’ve got performed.

“We needed to present totally different elements of our recreation tonight; not solely have been we good in possession, what was most pleasing was the staff spirit and the way in which they caught collectively within the second half.”