International Round Up

A vital result for Stuart Pearce’s England Under 21’s saw them overcome Romania 2-1 at Carrow Road, with goals coming via Jordan Henderson and Chris Smalling.Unfortnatley for Ryan Bertrand it was one to forget, despite a solid peformance a cruel deflection wrong footed Frank Fielding and found the back of the net to draw Romania level. Henderson gave England the lead with an eye catching Volley from the edge of the area before Romania scored their fortuitus equiliser. With 8 minutes remaining Chris Smalling smashed home from 2 yards out following some poor defending to give England a one goal cushion going into the second leg. The squad will fly out this afternoon knowing they have an excellent chance of competing for the European Championship next year, just needing a draw on Tuesday to see them through.

It was another night to forget for another Forest full back as Wales continued their poor start with a 1-0 defeat at the Cardiff City Stadium in the form of Bulgaria. Despite a slightly better performance Brian Flynn’s team wasted the rare chances that they did create and hesitant defending allowed Ivelin Popov to show some neat touches before firing past Wayne Hennesey to give Bulgaria all three points. To make matters worse Gunter was sent off in injury time, as the last man he had little choice to bring down Dimitar Rangelov. Robert Earnshaw missed the game as he recovers from his thigh strain, and instead sat on the famous orange sofa’s at Soccer AM. So a night to foget for Forest’s international representaives, Chris will miss Wales next game in Switzlerand and Ryan will be doing his very best to see England Under 21’s through the the Euro’s in Denmark next summer.

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