England U21s consolidated their place on top of their Euro qualifying group and made it two wins from two this week with a victory in Andorra.
A second-half goal from Tom Davies, his first for the U21s, proved enough to secure three points for the Young Lions on their trip into the Pyrenees.
Boss Aidy Boothroyd had warned in the build-up to the game that Andorra would be no pushover and would attempt to come out and play against his side.
And he wasn’t wrong. The hosts put in a solid shift and proved more than capable of disrupting play to frustrate and hold the Young Lions at a relative arm’s length on a difficult surface during the first half, before goalkeeper Francisco Costa put on a masterclass of his own after the break.
England will feel they could've scored more though and their first chance came in the early stages, when a low cross from the left found Dominic Calvert-Lewin free in the six-yard box. The Everton man opened his body to position himself for a finish but raised his shot over the bar from close range.
Kieran Dowell then tried his luck with a free-kick from the edge of the area, but after clipping a shot over the wall the ball dipped just over the bar.
But it was another man with Everton connections who broke the deadlock in the early stages of the second half though, as Davies glanced Kyle Walker-Peters’ left-wing cross past Costa.
