england under 19s made the perfect start to their european championship qualifying campaign as they twice came from behind to beat denmark 3 2 on thursday night sean o'driscoll's young lions trailed twice, to goals from marcus ingvartsen and robert skov, but hit back through izzy brown, demarai gray and ashley smith brown to claim an important win england are in an elite round mini group with denmark, azerbaijan and france as they bid to reach the under 19 european championship finals in greece in july manchester city's ashley smith brown scored the winner as england's under 19s beat denmark  with only the group winners qualifying for the tournament, it was imperative england started with a positive result in bayeux, northern france and they did in a topsy turvy game that saw both sides finish with 10 men having scored 15 goals in three matches against belgium, luxembourg and belarus to breeze through the preliminary qualifying phase, england knew this week's fixture would represent a step up in quality and they were rocked when denmark took the lead just six minutes in   after the england defence failed to deal with a long throw in, ingvartsen was there to poke the ball home at the back post england responded by seizing control of possession, but it was the half hour mark before they equalised chelsea midfielder ruben loftus cheek threaded a ball through to club mate brown and, brushing aside two denmark defenders, he slotted the ball past goalkeeper daniel iversen brown came within inches of putting england in front soon after, but his powerful strike from 20 yards cannoned back off the crossbar izzy brown, seen here playing for chelsea in the fa youth cup, scored england's first goal  and when fulham star patrick roberts teed up loftus cheek, his shot was cleared off the line by stefan gartenmann given their dominance, it was frustrating that denmark took the lead again four minutes before half time after a well worked move, skov found space just outside the box and fired past goalkeeper angus gunn into the far corner to their credit, england responded immediately and it was 2 2 at the pause roberts swung in a free kick from the right and gray, the birmingham city player, flicked in at the near post after the excitement of the opening 45 minutes, the game entered a lull after the break before exploding to life again in the decisive final 10 minutes man city defender smith brown collected the ball wide right, cut inside and fired home a missile from 20 yards that crashed in off the underside of the bar the game ended with england's harry winks receiving a second yellow card and denmark's jeppe hansen also dismissed for a bad tackle on charlie colkett england's second qualifier is against azerbaijan on saturday sean o'driscoll's team now play azerbaijan and france in their other european championship qualifiers  england (4 3 3): angus gunn (manchester city); ashley smith brown (manchester city), ben chilwell (leicester city), harry winks (tottenham hotspur), brendan galloway (everton); joe gomez (charlton athletic), patrick roberts (fulham), ruben loftus cheek (chelsea);izzy brown (c; chelsea), charlie colkett (chelsea), demarai gray (birmingham city) substitution: ola aina (chelsea) for roberts 87  substitutes not used: freddie woodman (newcastle united), lewis cook (leeds united), bradley fewster (middlesbrough), alex kiwomya (chelsea), aaron kuhl (reading), robert dickie (reading) scorers: brown 33; gray 44; smith brown 82  booked: winks 58  sent off: winks 87  head coach: sean o’driscoll  denmark: daniel iversen, magnus pedersen, stefan gartenmann, joachim anderson (c), mads pedersen, jens thomasen, marcus ingvartsen, jannik pohl, jeppe hansen, robert skov, rezan corlu  substitution: jonas gemmer for corlu 58  substitutes not used: sebastian john, marco lund, marcus mathisen, mikkel duelund, casper olesen  scorers: ingvartsen 6; skov 41  booked: corlu 14, anderson 44, hansen 67  sent off: jansen 83  head coach: bent christensen  referee: marco guida (ita) other qualifying result  france 2 azerbaijan 0 
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