England blanked out Chile 4-0 in the first league match of group “F†in U 17 World Cup soccer
For England Callum Hudson Odoi , Jadon Sancho (2) and substitute striker Angel Gomes scored the goals.
England went into attack early and forged ahead in the very 4th minute after Boussia Dortmund star Jadon Sancho set Callum Hudson-Odoi a nice through and the Chelsie youngster made no mistake to make it home with a nice placement ( 1-0).
Inspired by an early lead England kept up the pressure and dominated the proceedings all through. With Borussia Dortmund star Jadon Sancho scheming most of the moves England kept the play on rival’s half for most of the period .
That Jadon Sancho is a cut above the rest was amply proved as beside socring twice , he also put the ball on a platter for Callum Hudson to open the account for England. After scoring his first goal in the 51stminute to make it 2-0 off a combined move , Jadon again found the target nine minutes later capitalizing a pass by Jeorge Mceachranin .
Eangland could have won with a bigger margin but for some fine saves by Chielean keeper Julio Borquez.
Borquez, however, earned the ignoniminy of being shown a red card when he came out of his box and pulled down a goal bound England striker Rhian Brewster in 77th minute. Julio had to leave the field while England’s Angel Gomes made it 4-0 from the resultant free kick.
Chile , the first team to arrive in Kolkata to acclamatise well, failed to break the tight England defense.
The only time they came near scoring was in the 38th minute.
But a header by Chile medio Ignacio Mesias following a flag kick went over narrowly.
(Reporting by Manik Banerjee,Image: Wikimedia Commons)
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