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Good evening! You’ve obviously heard that there’s a pre-Euros warm up game on tonight. England take on Austria at the Riverside in Middlesbrough tonight, with both teams looking to fine-tune ahead of the big one. It’s one of two friendlies for England this week, and they will return to the Riverside to face Romania on Sunday. The Austrians are looking to rebuild their confidence after their last outing, where they were thrashed 4-0 at home by Denmark in a World Cup Qualifier in March. Ouch! Team news and all the build-up from Middlesbrough will follow shortly.

International friendlies
Riverside Stadium / 02.06.2021
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    Ibrahim Mustapha
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    Updated 02/06/2021 at 21:52 GMT+1

    End of 2nd Half
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    Peep! The last touch is from Gregoritsch, another misguided header that flies wide although from a harder chance, and England have just about held on to win!
    90+2'
    OFF THE LINE! Pickford clatters into Godfrey as he punches a shot clear. The ball breaks to Schopf, who drills in a low shot from the left and Ben White blocks it on the line!
    90'
    We'll have three more minutes.
    89'
    CHANCE! What a miss! With England all over the place Austria whip a cross into the box, where the unmarked Gregoritsch puts a simple header wide from ten yards out. Alexander-Arnold has gone off, with no substitutions left England will play out with ten.
    88'
    Alexander-Arnold has now been booked - for not leaving the pitch or coming back on without permission? Answers on a postcard please.
    87'
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    Hinteregger is booked for Austria. Alexander-Arnold looks in bother here; he might have tweaked a muscle here as he looks uncomfortable.
    86'
    This game has lost it's rhythm a little now; infinity substitutions will do that.
    82'
    Yet more changes, as Trimmel and Baumgartlinger enter the fray for Lainer and Schlager. Pickford then comes perilously close to sliding out of the area as he dives out to the left to gather the ball.
    81'
    Austria could still have a say in this. A long, diagonal ball finds Friedl on the left of the area, but he shins his attempted cross into the area and it's cleared. Sabitzer then has another lash from distance, which Pickford spills awkwardly before Godfrey scrambles clear.
    77'
    Calvert-Lewin breaks forward through the inside right channel after a through pass by Saka. He makes it into the area, but neither crosses nor shoots as he drills the ball across and it evades Watkins at the far post.
    74'
    CLOSE! After a Friedl shot is deflected over, Schaub bullets in a corner from the right and it whips right across goal, missing everyone and skidding a yard wide of the far post.
    71'
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    That's your lot form Grealish, as he's replaced by Ben White.
    For Austria, Alaba and Kalajdzic also depart, Gregoritsch and Schopf taking their place.
    69'
    Delightful feet again from Grealish, who jinks into space on the left of the area but his Calvert-Lewin doesn't read his low cross and the ball drifts out of play.
    66'
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    Calvert-Lewin is booked for dangerous play, catching Dragovic in the face with a stray boot as he jumped.
    64'
    OFF THE BAR! Sabitzer has another go from the edge, this time curling it over Pickford but off the crossbar.
    63'
    Blimey, what a let off for Godfrey! A loose back pass from him almost trickles past Pickford and into the goal.
    62'
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    Changes, and loads of them. James Ward-Prowse, Olly Watkins, Ben Godfrey, Dominic Calvert Lewin are on while Mings, Kane, Rice and Lingard are off for England. There are two changes for Austria too, in a revolving door of players. Baumgartner and Laimer depart, while Grillitsch and Schaub enter stage left.
    59'
    Sabitzer has a pop from 25 yards out, which deflects wide for a corner.
    58'
    That was swift, slick play from England, with the two interjections from Grealish key to the whole thing.
    57'
    GOAL! England 1 (Saka 57) Austria 0
    Saka scores his first for England! Grealish gets the ball in the centre circle and finds Kane on the left. Neat interplay between Kane and Lingard finds Grealish bursting through to the penalty spot; he's dispossessed as he opens up to shoot, but it falls to Saka who guides the loose ball into an empty net from the left!
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