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England take care of business in Costa Rica England 102 Costa Rica 60 (England 3-2)

After a strong performance at home last week against the Netherlands, England headed out to Costa Rica in a bid to move to 3-2 on the season. With Costa Rica being the lowest ranked team England would face it was important that they secured a solid win for the PD. Push the ball seemed to work well enough, take out the garbage time 4th Quarter and we'd probably have put up 120+. Other than a tough SG matchup for Johns and Quaid, the offence was solid tonight. A very warm welcome to Steven Soley in his first U21 game of the season, with a game high 21 points and a magnificent +46. England controlled the majority of the game, stepping their mark in the first Quarter by only following the first FG with a mere 1 minute left on the clock, an impressive start which just grew as time went on. Surprising to see Costa Rica use anything other than a tie here but thats their loss, still a +42 is ok here. We needed it going into a crazy hard last 3 games in which i don't expect any blow outs either way. Two tough home games coming up in which i'd love to win both but we shall see, top GS will be required if we want a chance to go 2-0 in the next two games. Next up a home match up vs a solid Georgia side.

Congratulations for your start in the U21 WC and the blowout victory against Russia.

Couple of big games coming up for ya mate

England blow out Georgia at home to remain unbeaten on home soil England 99 Georgia 74 (England 4-2)

Going into the 6th game of the season, England were sitting on a 3-2 record just leaving them outside of the KO seedings on PD. Beating Georgia at home was a big priority for Zeus considering the remaining games. England went into this game with a 2-0 record at home and weren't going to roll over here to seemingly better competition. Ellis and company felt their best chance were was to play motion and they lit it up from outside the key. After the first Quarter ending 19-18 in favour of Georgia but following, England won all the remaining quarters and shot incredibly. 8 players got on the board from down town and England just looked unstoppable at some points. Going into the 4th England had a 13pt lead and they continued their impressive run of form in 4th periods which clawed the game back vs the Netherlands two weeks prior. A brisk 16-2 run to start the 4th sealed a very impressive win, as the subs entered to finish the game chants of 'We want 30' echoed around the arena but back to back 3s for Georgia foiled the chances for a 30pt win.

Very good win for us today as we should move into the KO seeding for now. We look to remain unbeaten next week vs a high ranked Indonesia side but hopefully we can pull it out. Onto next week.

Zeus.

Great result, tactics spot on! Kudos my friend.

Nice win mate.

U21s slightly overlooked atm I think but great win last night mate.

Was a good game to watch, Ellis is certainly coming along nicely