2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

**tetsujin1979** · 17/05/2023, 7:00 PM

Hungary 1-0 up at half time against Wales: https://www.uefa.com/under17/match/2037821/
Wales' keeper is Kit Margetson, wonder if he's related to former Man City keeper Martyn Margetson?

**ontheotherhand** · 17/05/2023, 7:10 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Hungary 1-0 up at half time against Wales: https://www.uefa.com/under17/match/2037821/
Wales' keeper is Kit Margetson, wonder if he's related to former Man City keeper Martyn Margetson?

Direct descendant of Kit Marget I think. Half Norwegian.

**tetsujin1979** · 17/05/2023, 8:17 PM

Hungary won 3-0.
Game against Wales on Saturday is a shoot out to stay in the tournament

**pineapple stu** · 18/05/2023, 6:44 PM

I see that Poland team has put five goals past Uzbekistan, England, Andorra (6), Belgium, Sweden and Slovakia inside the last eight months. I suspect they're not a bad team at all.

**Razors left peg** · 18/05/2023, 6:50 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I see that Poland team has put five goals past Uzbekistan, England, Andorra (6), Belgium, Sweden and Slovakia inside the last eight months. I suspect they're not a bad team at all.

And thats the thing about under age football. Sometimes squads from usually unheralded countries like ourselves can make a short term impact at that age group with an unusually gifted age group. Just a weird thing that some took yesterday as a sign of doom.

**elatedscum** · 19/05/2023, 10:24 PM

Why do you not look at the age profile of our squad, which appears to be the youngest at the tournament?

Our squad is the youngest we�ve ever had at u17s, by a mile. That�s the problem. The fact we have a 2008 player playing is crazy. Evan Ferguson was a 14 year old phenom and he was kept out of the comparative underage side by the likes of Conor Carty. There should always be a better player available at age 17 than his 14 year old counterpart (in this case Ade Solanke). Normally we have 1* player who�s underage for the level - this year we have 7 players out of 20, and Niall McAndrew would have made it 8. So the question is, what happened to 2006. Why are there only 12 or 13 players considered to be of the level to play in the championships, when every other country has much much more? Maybe it�s the manager�s selection that�s at fault, maybe it�s something gone wrong in development.

*
2022: 1 Kone Doherty used in quals
2021: none
2020: 1 Ferguson used in quals
2019: 1 (McNulty)
2018: 2 (Corcoran, Parrott)
2017: 6 (Idah, Collins, Ledwidge, K Clarke, Wright, Thompson)
2016: didn�t qualify, not sure re quals
2015: 2 (McGuane who we lost, Scully)

**nigel-harps1954** · 20/05/2023, 2:59 PM

One up against Wales here. Bit of madness around penalty though. First penalty saved, linesman flags for retake (correctly). Second penalty is saved, linesman flags again, but rebound is scored and goal stands.

I know there's been controversy about these before, but should the goalkeeper not have been booked?

**tetsujin1979** · 20/05/2023, 3:02 PM

game is on RTE News Now and RTE Player
Live stream on uefa.tv for anyone outside Ireland
https://www.uefa.tv/match/live/240027/2037830

**tetsujin1979** · 20/05/2023, 3:04 PM

Penalty here

**SkStu** · 20/05/2023, 3:05 PM

2-0 nice strike Orazi

**nigel-harps1954** · 20/05/2023, 3:06 PM

Super finish from Orazi.

**tetsujin1979** · 20/05/2023, 3:07 PM

Horrific mistake from the Welsh centre half, completely missed a header, but take nothing away from the finish. Wales cannot deal with Orazi on the wing.

Melia causing problems in the Welsh defence as well, there's a goal there for him.

**Razors left peg** · 20/05/2023, 3:25 PM

They have been excellent in 1st half. Razi looks a star in the making

**Razors left peg** · 20/05/2023, 4:03 PM

The 3rd goal as good as any Irish team has scored ever, absolutely brilliant

**tetsujin1979** · 20/05/2023, 4:09 PM

Came after a long period of Welsh possession, although it didn't result in any serious chances for the Welsh

**nigel-harps1954** · 20/05/2023, 4:09 PM

Pity they didn't start with the build-up out from the back, but this is a phenomenal goal.

**tetsujin1979** · 20/05/2023, 4:25 PM

Just noticed Portugal won their second group game last night against Scotland 2-1, after losing their first game 4-0 against Germany
Portugal won six out of six in qualifying, scoring 16 and conceding only once, a penalty against Kazakhstan. Offers a little perspective on the loss in the opening game against Poland

**Eirambler** · 20/05/2023, 7:31 PM

Hungary standing up to Poland better than we did, so it looks like a draw won't be enough in the last game to progress, we'll need to beat them.

**tetsujin1979** · 20/05/2023, 8:15 PM

Poland through after winning 5-3
Hungary had their keeper sent off at the end, and is obviously suspended for the game against Ireland on Tuesday
https://www.uefa.com/under17/match/2...ary-vs-poland/
<EDIT>
Sorry, it was their goalkeeper coach that was shown the red card

**Eirambler** · 21/05/2023, 6:08 AM

The graph on this tweet tells its own story. Poland with an average of more than 10 dedicated youth coaches per top flight club. Ireland with less than one. And Poland aren't even the outlier here, we are. We need to put an end to this "Brexit is the best thing to happen" nonsense - it's the exact opposite.