The UEFA U19 Euros are back and this year they are being held in France from 18-30 July. The eight teams are split into two groups with hosts France, Austria, England and the Netherlands in Group A and Italy, Croatia, Portugal and Spain in Group B. All the games are being shown on Eurosport. Hopefully they don't switch all the games over to Eurosport 2 like they did for the U17 Euros so I can actually watch the games and be a bit more active in this thread.

Some of the more interesting players to watch might be the very exciting now Real Madrid attacking midfielder Sergio Canales, Chelsea youngsters Gael Kakuta and Fabio Borini, Aston Villa striker Nathan Delfouneso, and Inter striker Mattia Destro who scored eight goals in five games in qualifying.

Squads

Austria

Philip Petermann, Christian Petrovcic, Emir Dilaver, Mahmud Imamoglu, Michael Schimpelsberger, Lukas Rath, Tobias Kainz, David Alaba, Robert Gucher, Christoph Knasmüllner, Gernot Trauner, Raphael Holzhauser, Georg Teigl, Christian Klem, Marco Meilinger, Andreas Weimann, Marco Djuricin, Andreas Tiffner

Netherlands

Jeroen Zoet, Steffen Bakker, Ricardo van Rhijn, Imad Najah, Erik Schouten, Bruno Martins Indi, Tim Eekman, Jordy Clasie, Leandro Bacuna, Rick van Haaren, Davy Propper, Rodney Sneijder, Steven Berghuis, Rajiv van la Parra, Luc Castaignos, Jerson Cabral, Lorenzo Ebicilio, Florian Jozefzoon

England

Declan Rudd, Lee Nicholls, Matthew Briggs, Reece Brown, Steven Caulker, Nathan Baker, Nathaniel Clyne, Thomas Cruise, Josh Thompson, Matthew James, Jacob Mellis, Dean Parrett, John Bostock, Nathan Delfouneso, Ryan Donaldson, Frank Nouble, Ryan Noble, Matt Phillips

France

Marc Vidal, Loïc Négo, Chris Mavinga, Johan Martial, Sébastien Faure, Clément Grenier, Gaël Kakuta, Gueïda Fofana, Yannis Tafer, Gilles Sunu, Antoine Griezmann, Alexandre Lacazette, Francis Coquelin, Timothée Kolodziejczak, Enzo Reale, Abdoulaye Diallo, Cédric Bakambu, Gaëtan Bussman

Italy

Paride Addario, Simone Colombi, Mattia Perin, Andrea Adamo, Michelangelo Albertazzi, Riccardo Brosco, Luca Caldirola, Alessandro Crescenzi, Marco Davide Faraoni, Alessandro Malomo, Andrea Bertolacci, Marco D'Alessandro, Cristian Galano, Jacopo Sala, Roberto Soriano, Massimiliano Taddei, Luca Tremolada, Fabio Borini, Mattia Destro, Nicolao Dumitru

Croatia

Matej Delač, Dominik Picak, Dario Rugašević, Šime Vrsaljko, Tomislav Glumac, Renato Kelić, Matej Jonjić, Roberto Punčec, Franko Andrijašević, Filip Ozobić, Arijan Ademi, Mario Tičinović, Zvonko Pamić, Frano Mlinar, Marko Bičvić, Anton Maglica, Andrej Kramarić, Ante Vukušić

Portugal

Tiago Maia, Cláudio Ramos, João Amorim, Aníbal Capela, Nuno Reis, Roderick, Cédric, Mário Rui, Agostinho Cá, Sana, Danilo, Sérgio Oliveira, Rúben Pinto, Nélson Oliveira, Baldé, Salvador Agra, Evandro, Alex

Spain

Aitor Fernández, Álex Sánchez, Jorge Pulido, Martín Montoya, Carles Planas, Marc Bartra, Ramiro Mayor, Hugo Mallo, "Keko" Gontán, Jorge Resurrección "Koke", Oriol Romeu, Thiago Alcántara, Ezequiel Calvente, Sergio Canales, Daniel Pacheco, Rodrigo Moreno, Rubén Rochina, Iker Muniain

Fixtures

18 July

Austria/England
France/Netherlands
Croatia/Spain
Italy/Portugal

21 July

France/Austria
Netherlands/England
Spain/Portugal
Croatia/Italy

24 July

England/France
Netherlands/Austria
Portugal/Croatia
Spain/Italy

27 July

Semi-finals

30 July

Final

Austria/England starts in an hour. Starting lineups:

Petermann
Dilaver
Imamoglu
Schimpelsberger
Kainz
Alaba
Weimann
Knasmüllner
Djuricin
Trauner
Klem

Rudd
Briggs
James
Caulker
Baker
Parrett
Delfouneso
Nouble
Bostock
Cruise
Brown

The Austrian team features 2 players who are playing in Bayern's 2nd team, Knasmüllner and Alaba. Alaba has played 5 games for the first team last season (one of those CL) as LB, but he is supposed to better in midfield and said to be very talented. He should be quite easy to spot in the game since he's black.

I thought I recognised the name from somewhere. Didn't he make some big mistake(s) in the CL, against Fiorentina maybe?

He played vs. Fiorentina but I don't remember anything particular from him in that game. He had a very bad Bundesliga game vs. Frankfurt though, Bayern lost 1-2 because of 2 late (both in the last 5 minutes) mistakes from him.

Very mediocre. Castaignos will turn out to be a decent/good striker and a few more decent talents like Josefzoon, Van Rhijn and Ebicilio. Plus Rodney Sneijder, Wesley's little brother, will be interesting to see play again but is nowhere near as talented as Wesley.

Love Spain tho with Canales and Muniain.

Extended youtube highlights revealed no major mistakes and the kicker actually gave him a grade of 2.5 (1 is best, 6 is worst).

13 mins in Nouble makes it 1-0 for England after the Austrian defenders gift him the ball.

Before the goal Austria had been slightly better. Alaba had a shot fly wide after Brown was caught napping playing him onside.

derwi,

I think I was confusing it with the Frankfurt game you mentioned.

28 mins Nouble 2-0. A long ball down the left side, the Austrian captain commits himself and misses the ball, Nouble beats the keeper from a tight angle.

Neither side has shown much so far. Nouble has buried both his chances and that's the difference between the two.

SAME OLD ENGLAND
ALWAYS CHEATING

Both sides hit the crossbar from a free kick to end the half, I think it was Parrett for England and Alaba for Austria.

Austria have probably had slightly more of the ball but haven't really been able to turn that possession into goalscoring chances. England have mostly looked to hit on the counter and have created a few chances that way, notably the two chances for Nouble and one for Delfouneso. Alaba has been Austria's biggest threat with the free kick and a few good long range efforts.

I have to agree with kitaristio, some other thoughts:
- You can see that England has better players, average technique is superior and Austria had various really bad passes that I didn't notice from England
- The English coach is hella scary, I wouldn't want to meet him in the streets
- Alaba and Knasmüllner seem to be the best players on the Austrian side

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Alaba makes it 1-2 with a nice freekick.

BOOM

OMG SO CLOSE

51 mins - Alaba makes it 2-1 with an inswinging free kick from the right side that beats Rudd at the near post.

Two minutes later Austria has a great chance to equalise but Rudd makes a good save.

......

comical defending

at least it was an arsenal player who scored :/

55 mins - Cruise makes it 3-1 from a corner.

73 mins - Trauner makes it 3-2 with a great low drive into the far corner from the edge of the area.

I didn't know Matt James was the u19 captain :S Fail by me

CMON

FT 2-3

Are all the squads depleted (i.e some of the players were not released by their clubs)?