News

Fornals on the mark again

|

West Ham’s Pablo Fornals’ grabbed his second goal in two games to help Spain U21s win  5-0 victory at the UEFA European Under-21s Championships, against Poland.

He put his side in front on 17 minutes, before the team took a 3-0 half-time lead with Mikel Oyarzabal and Fabián Ruiz Peña adding the other two.

Dani Ceballos made the game 4-0 in the second half before substitute Borja Mayoral secured the result late on, helping Spain to a second successive victory at the tournament.

Fornals’ finish displayed his ruthlessness and eye for the right run when he opened the scoring in Saturday’s match, latching onto a pass into the penalty box and scoring with his first touch from six yards out.

The new Hammers number No18 played the full 90 minutes for his nation to help Spain through from Group A in the competition as group winners on goal difference after their dominant win.

Share this article

Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

Follow on Twitter @hughsouthon