After the first round of the U21 Championships taking place in Danemark at the moment there's one clear winner: Sunderland Football Club. Okay, its only one game and the EPL is a different kettle of fish, but the £20 million paid for Jordan Henderson is looking a touch too high. The best you could say about his display against Spain was that he did look like Steven Gerrard: at least three times he hit long cross field glory balls which ran out of play. Either Pool have overpaid or the Spanish midfielders are worth billions. Spain made a convincing Arsenal impersonation by controlling the play, forgetting to score and then letting an inferior opposition snatch a point at the end.
In terms of standing out in the competition, only really the Czechs seemed to have done so in respects to teams. On the player front, the Swiss Xherdan Shaqiri dominated the Danes, Borek Dockal scored twice against the Ukraine, while in the England/ Spain game Fergie will be happy about the displays of his future defensive players.
England U-21s 1-1 Spain U-21s
Soccernet Euro U21 Champs review
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