Academy of Football defender Airidas Golambeckis was a second-half substitute as England U19s recorded an emphatic 7-0 win over Wales at the La Quinta Football Centre in Spain.
Four of Will Antwi’s side’s goals came in the opening 55 minutes, before three further strikes followed after our 17-year-old defender’s introduction with 23 minutes remaining.
Divine Mukasa opened the scoring for the Young Lions with just under half-an-hour played, before Trey Nyoni doubled England’s advantage.
Jesse Derry made it 3-0 shortly before half-time, with Arsenal’s Max Dowman firing home a fourth in the 55th minute.
Our U21s captain was then summoned from the bench to earn his fourth U19s cap, and moments after his introduction, Mikey Moore, who scored a hat-trick in the 4-1 win over Belgium on Saturday, got in on the act to make it five, and then Shim Mheuka grabbed England’s sixth.
And there was still time for Sunderland’s Chris Rigg to squeeze in number seven to round off a devastating attacking display by the Young Lions, who will head into next month’s UEFA U19 European Championship qualifiers full of confidence.
