RED Correa 27′

Up a man for most of the game after Correa’s moment of psychopathy, the Elves could certainly not complain for a lack of opportunities to equalise but they really dragged it out with some iffy finishing against the in-form Simon. But eventually their relentlessness told, with a fine finish from Fekir preventing disaster. Keita arguably should have wrapped it up with a wayward shot from the edge of the area – and, frankly, if the hosts can’t win a game like this, what business do they have competing at all?

By Brycen Icicle