2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

**Razors left peg** · 22/03/2024, 3:00 PM

Originally Posted by Eirambler

Crawford still sees Lawal as a centre back then. In fairness to Crawford, he'd be ideal for a youth development role at Celtic if a job ever comes up...

He'd drive you mad. Be one thing if he didnt have good defenders in the squad, but leaves O'Riordan on the bench.

**JR89** · 22/03/2024, 5:09 PM

Crawford was talking about Lawal earlier this week.

**Razors left peg** · 22/03/2024, 5:52 PM

Nice to get so many goals against a bad team.

**JR89** · 22/03/2024, 6:15 PM

Originally Posted by Razors left peg

Nice to get so many goals against a bad team.

After only two games Vata finds himself with five goals at U21 level. Fair enough they were both against San Marino but the record for most goals at this level are 7 with Robbie Brady and Kevin Doyle.

**Razors left peg** · 22/03/2024, 6:27 PM

Originally Posted by JR89

After only two games Vata finds himself with five goals at U21 level. Fair enough they were both against San Marino but the record for most goals at this level are 7 with Robbie Brady and Kevin Doyle.

How many is Sinclair Armstrong on. He seems to score every game he plays

**JR89** · 22/03/2024, 6:44 PM

Originally Posted by Razors left peg

How many is Sinclair Armstrong on. He seems to score every game he plays

Wiki says five goals in six games.

**pineapple stu** · 22/03/2024, 6:45 PM

Also 5

**Razors left peg** · 22/03/2024, 6:49 PM

I really like Armstrong, he looks dangerous every time I watch him play. Needs more refinement but there's a player in him

**Eirambler** · 22/03/2024, 7:12 PM

They should maybe consider calling Vata into the seniors as well alongside Hodge and Moran for a look, although a cap wouldn't make any real difference in terms of commiting him to Ireland. But he's the kind of player that could move club this summer and kick on very quickly.

**JR89** · 22/03/2024, 7:16 PM

Originally Posted by Razors left peg

I really like Armstrong, he looks dangerous every time I watch him play. Needs more refinement but there's a player in him

Both himself and Emakhu caused issues with their constant pressuring of the defence back in November.

Originally Posted by Eirambler

They should maybe consider calling Vata into the seniors as well alongside Hodge and Moran for a look, although a cap wouldn't make any real difference in terms of commiting him to Ireland. But he's the kind of player that could move club this summer and kick on very quickly.

Would be calling up Armstrong too.

**tetsujin1979** · 22/03/2024, 8:09 PM

Vata currently top scorer in the group, according to Wikipedia

**elatedscum** · 24/03/2024, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by Razors left peg

How many is Sinclair Armstrong on. He seems to score every game he plays

I think uefa have taken 2 of those away from him. They called the San Marino home one where he bundled it in an OG. And the one on Friday that he didn’t really celebrate an OG, which would make it 3

**tetsujin1979** · 26/03/2024, 11:22 PM

Big result for the U21s in Italy, with the Azzuri drawing with Turkey after a last minute equaliser from Kilicsoy
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2037260/

That leaves Italy two points ahead of Ireland, with Ireland having a game in hand. We're playing Turkey away and Latvia at home in September.

**ifk101** · 27/03/2024, 9:26 AM

Huge opportunity to win the group now so expect we won't.

**CSAD** · 27/03/2024, 11:50 AM

Winning of the group is back in our hands but the worry here is Turkey are now well back in the race, especially if they beat us next round. They dont have to play Itay again and still have SM away.

**elatedscum** · 30/03/2024, 7:46 AM

I just noticed that Josh Seary came off the bench for Preston yesterday and upon looking deeper see that he made his championship debut back in February. Probably worth a call up to the 21s considering how few right backs we have coming through.

We basically just had one called up in the last window cause Abankwah didn’t make it.

**JR89** · 26/04/2024, 12:07 PM

U21s will play Croatia U21s and England U20s in June. Players will join up on June 4th for camp with games on June 7th and June 11th. Hope England's U21s were already busy and that they didn't pick the U20s instead to avoid Carsley.

**Eirambler** · 23/05/2024, 11:27 PM

Rumours coming from Albania of Zefi switching to them. They can offer him a place in their Under 21 squad, realistically he's not in the frame for ours at the moment. Would likely have to wait until the next campaign at best.

Being honest I think it's looking less and less likely that he'll make it at a high enough level to ever play at senior level for us. I know it's a bit early to draw that conclusion on him at 19, but he doesn't seem to have kicked on at all, and there have been rumours about his professionalism etc. The worry for me would be that it could encourage Vata, who now looks a much brighter prospect, to make the same move.