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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rob Smyth

England 0-0 Slovenia: European Under-21 Championship – as it happened

England's Jon Rowe in action with Slovenia's Zan Jevsenak and Lovro Golic.
England's Jon Rowe in action with Slovenia's Zan Jevsenak and Lovro Golic. Photograph: Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters

That’s all for tonight. We’ll have a match report shortly, and Will is tippy-tapping away in preparation for the big Club World Cup game. Goodnight!

Lee Carsley's verdict

It was frustrating. It wasn’t for the want of effort, we just lacked a bit of quality at times. We had some really good chances and if we’d taken one of them I think we’d have won the game comfortably.

We have to give Slovenia credit as well. They made it very difficult for us, especially the way they started and the way they set up in terms of letting us have the ball.

We didn’t start fast and we were under pressure in the first 15 minutes. It was important we didn’t concede so that was a real positive.

The objective is to qualify for the group and we’re still on course for that. It’s really important that the players recover; I think we’ll definitely freshen the team up for the Germany game.

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