Restored to starting 11 and Tino Livramento outstanding as England head into Euro semi-finals | OneFootball

Tino Livramento was back in the England Under 21 team on Saturday night.

A place in the Euro semi-finals at stake and Spain strong favourites to beat Lee Carsley’s team.

After having been arguably England’s best player across the opening two group matches, the Newcastle defender was surprisingly left out against Germany in a game where they needed a point to guarantee progress to the quarter-finals.

A dismal first half followed when Germany dominated and were 2-0 up at half-time, it could have been worse. England improved in the second half and pulled a goal back but still lost. England only progressing because Slovenia failed to take advantage against the Czech Republic in the other game.

Saturday night saw a far better England display.

They survived an early scare when Cresswell was penalised for a handball in the box and the referee gave a penalty, only for the VAR to save England when sending the ref to the screen and overturning his own decision.

McAtee and Elliott took full advantage and scored the goals to put England 2-0 up inside 15 minutes.

Spain pulling a goal back from the penalty spot six minutes before half-time.

However, despite Spain edging the dominance in a very decent match, Tino Livramento and the rest of the defence played well to ensure the lead was maintained.

Former Newcastle midfielder Elliot Anderson coming off the bench and scoring a penalty in added time to top it all off, an eventual 3-1 victory to send England through to the 2025 Under 21s Euro semi-finals.

Tino Livramento played the full match and was excellent.

A really bad challenge on the United star in the final seconds sparked a mass brawl, as Spain took the defeat badly.

Order eventually restored and it is England looking now credible contenders to follow up the 2023 Under 21s Euro triumph, when Lee Carsley led the Young Lions to glory and Anthony Gordon was named player of the tournament.

Last night, James McAtee was named the official man of the match but Tino Livramento still shaded MOTM for me.

BBC Sport invited visitors to rate all the England Under 21 players for their performance against Spain and they agreed:

That now leaves the quarter-final situation looking like this.

21 June 2025

Portugal 0 Netherlands 1

England 3 Spain 1

22 June 2025

Germany v Italy (5pm)

Denmark v France (8pm) This match listed as live on Channel 4 tonight

England now play the Netherlands on Wednesday (25 June) in the semi-finals with a 5pm kick-off.

If progressing tonight, Will Osula and Denmark to play the winners of Germany and Italy in the other semi-final. That semi-final also on Wednesday but an 8pm kick-off.

Nick Woltemade of Germany is currently top scorer in the tournament with four goals, then two players on three goals, Portugal’s Geovany Quenda and Denmark’s/Newcastle’s Will Osula.