England U21s drop initial qualifying points for two years

England Under-21s have dropped their 1st qualifying points for two years right after a 0-0 draw away to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Euro 2017 qualifying.
Despite a disjointed performance in which they had been lowered to ten males with defender Jack Stephens; red card, they kept their third clean sheet from three to take their Group Nine record to two wins along with a draw from their opening three fixtures ahead of Monday;s go to of Switzerland.
England, playing without having Eric Dier and Dele Alli who're now with Roy Hodgson;s senior team and within the absence with the injured Jordan Ibe and Tyias Browning, struggled to play the fluid football manager Gareth Southgate encourages on a rather uneven pitch in Sarajevo.
In a promising opening period, Lewis Baker threatened using a header at www.afifacoin.com Bosnia goalkeeper Kenan Piric, and the hosts; Haris Hajradinovic went close when England;s Jordan Pickford fumbled his shot.
Bosnia;s Damir Sadikovic similarly sent a highly effective work more than the crossbar soon soon after, just before two of Southgate;s most experienced players combined to go close once again, this time with a header from Nathaniel Chalobah after captain James Ward-Prowse;s precise cross.
The hosts; patience and organisation presented a hard challenge for Southgate;s new-look team, and it soon began to appear that only a moment of true high quality would develop a clear opening.
Dominic Solanke, on loan at Vitesse Arnhem from Chelsea and making his England debut, caught the eye in that respect, and almost found space using a classy backheel within the final third.
That was demonstrated again approaching half-time when Calum Chambers headed more than from an additional classy cross from Ward-Prowse, and when Chuba Akpom;s heavy touch lost possession immediately after Dominic Iorfa had developed space.
In the second half, with the promising Ruben Loftus-Cheek disappointing, Armin Cerimagic;s influence began to grow and England;s ambitions waned.
Ward-Prowse curled wide from 20 yards in the 67th minute, after which Stephens, right after a foul on Cerimagic, picked up the second of two yellow cards in rapid succession to leave England to play with ten men, against enhancing opposition, in the 72nd minute.
Another Cerimagic break, within the 82nd minute, ended with a cross in to the area eluding his team-mates as England also became tentative amid Fifa coins the growing stress.Together with the final notable chance in the game, and in a repeat of www.afifacoin.com an earlier move, Ward-Prowse again discovered Chambers inside the area, but once again the defender;s header missed the target, this time going wide.