Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly started in England’s win over Iran at the u17 World Cup on Tuesday, with the team securing an important three points.

Following a 10-0 win over New Caledonia in their opening group game of the u17 World Cup, England took on Iran in their second match of the group stage.

Iran had defeated Brazil 3-2 in their own opening game, coming from 2-0 down to shock their opponents, so there was no excuse for England to be complacent.

Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri had both done well against New Caledonia, with the former providing an assist and drawing a red card whilst the latter scored one and assisted one.

As a result of those performances, both players were in the starting lineup for England against Iran on Tuesday.

Unsurprisingly, it turned out to be a much harder match than the New Caledonia thrashing, and Abolfazl Zamani gave Iran the lead in the 31st minute.

Nwaneri came off early in the second half, to be replaced by Justin Oboavwoduo as England chased an equaliser, and they found it through Reiss-Alexander Russell-Denny four minutes later.

Just as the game looked to be heading for a draw, Joel Ndala capitalised on an error to curl in an effort from a tight angle for 2-1, winning England the three points.

Lewis-Skelly played 76 minutes of the match, coming off for Samuel Amo-Ameyaw.

England now top their group going into the final game, with six points and a goal difference of 11.

Brazil won 9-0 in their own match against New Caledonia, so they sit in second with three points and a goal difference of eight.

Goal difference is ranked ahead of head-to-head record in the u17 World Cup tiebreakers, so England will top the group as long as they avoid a defeat to Brazil by two goals or more and Iran fail to win by 10 goals or more against New Caledonia.