Under-20 World Cup: England bow out with a whimper after 2-0 loss to Egypt
England Under-20s were beaten 2-0 by Egypt on Saturday evening to exit the World Cup at the group stage without a win.
Needinga victory to advance after starting their campaign with successivedraws, England failed to make their superiority count and were doomedonce Trezeguet curled Egypt in front 11 minutes from time.
Ross Barkley had been denied before the break and Eric Dier did curl afree-kick against the bar midway through the second half before HarryKane fluffed a golden chance to level, but Hassan Ahmed's stoppage-timeeffort piled further humiliation onto an England outfit that slumped tothe bottom of Group E as Iraq and Chile advanced.
England have now gone 16 matches without a win at this level and asummer that promised so much will instead trigger another bout ofnavel-gazing.
England coach Peter Taylor said: "I thought we would win tonight, to be honest, because I thought we were improving as a team.
"Unfortunately, it was our worst performance since we've been here,but I don't think I've seen a team create as many chances and lose agame 2-0, and that's why it's frustrating.
"If you don't play as well as you can and you don't take chances, you get punished, and that's what happened tonight.
"Egypt showed good character to win the match tonight, having lost the previous two games.
"We still feel we could have scored more goals and that's the mistake that we made.
"Their first goal was very well taken and the second came when we were trying to get back into it.
"The experience of playing in the U20 World Cup will have beenfantastic for everybody. It's a brilliant competition, but we'redisappointed."
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