Ambrose, sent off on his Charlton debut at Sunderland on Saturday, ended an up-and-down four days in the best manner possible, latching on to Carlton Cole’s knock-down and then belting a shot into the bottom corner past Kevin Ellegaard on Tuesday night.
It was tough luck on the former Manchester City goalkeeper, who thought he had ensured a draw for the 10-man Danes when he blocked an Ambrose effort moments earlier. But England were not to be denied, as Ambrose’s late effort sent them into the crucial European Championship double-header next month with Wales and Germany in confident mood.”That was the perfect friendly,” Taylor said. Flynn said: “When I first watched [Lewin] play at Derby I knew we had something special on our hands. He has been training all pre-season with the Derby first-team squad.”Lewin has a great touch, two good feet, and I feel he has more than a decent chance of making it to a much higher level.”. The England Under-21 coach Peter Taylor hailed the encounter with Denmark as “the perfect friendly” after his side grabbed victory through Darren Ambrose’s last-minute strike. Flynn said: “It is clear for everyone to see that he has a chance of making it.

Potential is a huge word – it is realising it that is important.”Derby born and bred, Nyatanga was the first player Flynn looked to when the original captain Lee Beevers was substituted at the break. Price has started this season in the Ipswich side but he was injured on Saturday… I did say after the March game with Austria in Vienna, when Danny Coyne was very unfortunate to have conceded what people felt was a bad goal, that he would start the next match. But now [Lewis is not fit] Danny will almost certainly be in for the England game. I would have liked to say to Lewis, ‘Here’s your debut against Slovenia, now take it from here and win the spot’.

But he’s out and should be back in action in a fortnight.”Brian Flynn, the Under-21s manager, believes Derby County’s Lewin Nyatanga has a big future in the game after he was made the Wales Under-21 captain two days before his 17th birthday. In February the 6ft 2in centre-back became Wales’ youngest Under-21 player, at 16 years 174 days, as a second-half substitute against Germany at Wrexham.Nyatanga, who qualifies for Wales through a Newport-born grandmother, was thrown the armband in the second half of the 3-1 victory over Malta at Llanelli on Tuesday night. Our goalkeeping situation hasn’t been the healthiest and we finished last season without a ‘keeper playing regularly for their club first team. With Mark Crossley retired and Paul Jones now 38, Toshack has been concerned about his goalkeeping situation since he took over as manager in November last year. Coyne is not a regular starter for Burnley – the 31-year-old played in his side’s first two matches before being dropped on Saturday against Coventry – and he made a crucial blunder against Austria in a previous qualifier. But Toshack fielded the Clarets stopper for last night’s friendly against Slovenia in Swansea after Lewis Price picked up an injury at the weekend while playing for Ipswich.
Toshack would have given Price, 21, his debut, which could have earned him a place against England on 3 September but the stopper now faces two weeks on the sidelines.Toshack said: “Losing Lewis Price is unfortunate. A day after having their chances built up by both Beckham and Eriksson, they were back where they were in the European Championship in Portugal last summer – a state of considerable chaos..

The Wales manager John Toshack looks set to play Danny Coyne against England next month after seeing his goalkeeping options limited. A few minutes earlier he had again expressed his dissatisfaction with events around him, throwing up his arms in another bout of frustration when the ball he was expecting to run on to never arrived. The misshaped pass was from Joe Cole, who at no point produced even a hint of the relevance that was beginning to mark his work for England in the spring.The final stroke of misery was inflicted by Sven Larsen, who ran beyond Ferdinand, almost casually, and put the ball beyond a now shell-shocked James He was not alone in that condition. And where was £100,000-a-week Rio Ferdinand in all of this? He was, not for the first time, looking rather lost.Rooney’s goal three minutes from the end, from a pass by Beckham, forlornly underlined the extent of England’s dependence on both his drive and his vision.