Fourth Cap for Wickham as England Crash to Defeat - Ipswich Town News

Academy striker Connor Wickham came on as a 65th minute sub to win his fourth England U17 cap as his side crashed to a 6-1 defeat to Denmark in the third place play-off at the Nordic Tournament in Sweden this afternoon.

Wickham, 15, started two of the tournament's games and was a sub in the other two and scored the winning goal in the group game against Iceland.

England: 13 Jak Alnwick, 2 Keanu Marsh Brown, 3 Jamie Reckord, 4James Hurst (c), 5 Oliver Nicholas, 9 Jacob Walcott, 11 Jason Banton (Connor Wickham 65) 12 Luke Garbutt (Tom Parkes 53) 13 Jak Alnwick, 14 Jesse Lingard (8 Chuks Aneke 53) 15 Joe McCann (10 Luke Freeman 53) 17 Kieran Edwards (Nathaniel Laing 63).

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