England U21 vs Croatia U21 LIVE: Late heartbreak as Croatia KNOCK OUT England on goal difference - l

June 2024 ยท 2 minute read

THAT'S ALL FOR TONIGHT!

England U21s have crashed out of the European Championships after a 2-1 victory over Croatia.

England went 2-0 up through an Eberechi Eze penalty and a fine finish from Curtis Jones.

England were heading into the quarter finals until Filip Bradaric scored in the injury time to send the Croatians through.

The 2-1 defeat coupled with Portugal U21s 3-0 win over Switzerland U21s was enough to send Igor Biscan's side through.

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Goodnight!

MORE REACTION FROM BOOTHROYD

"Football is a cruel game, it's great when you win it, but it's devastating when you don't in a situation like this. We're all very disappointed.

"You can't rely on other people doing you a favour in this tournament. We should've got points onboard against the Swiss and we could've and should've got something against Portugal.

"I love being involved with these players and that makes it even more difficult to deal with. I'm going to keep going and see what happens."

REACTION FROM BOOTHROYD

The England U21 boss told sky sports:

"I thought tonight we were excellent, I thought tonight we were very creative.

" We hit the cross bar twice and missed chances that normally we would take and we scored two goals.

"He (Bradaric) will never score another goal like that again so that's very disappointing.

"We gave ourselves a mountain to climb and we almost did it, but unfortunately we missed out by one goal."

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