Turkey and England keep their heads

Turkey and England go into the second set of UEFA European Under-17 Championship Group B games potentially one win from the semi-finals but their coaches know that their opening victories give them no guarantees.

Both of Tuesday's matches finished 3-1 – Turkey overcoming Greece and England coming from behind to defeat the Czech Republic. Turkey remain in Eschen-Mauren to face the Czech Republic and coach Abdullah Ercan warned: "We have won just one game and the next game will be tougher, and we will try to play better. The Czech Republic will be tougher than Greece."

Ercan's side did well to get to grips with heavy rain in their first game, and the coach revealed they had prepared for just such an event. "We thought about the weather conditions and came for a training camp in Switzerland on 8 May," he said. "Hopefully we will continue injury-free."

The Czech Republic gave a good account of themselves against England but could not prevent a loss, and with defender Jan Toms back from suspension coach Jiří Štol knows they now have no room for error. "We know that it will be a tough game because Turkey are very tricky opponents," he said. "After they won against Greece we know that it is a game we must win to get to the semi-finals."

England also have a player returning from a ban against Greece in Vaduz, versatile defender and midfielder Conor Coady, who has not tasted defeat in any of his 13 U17 caps, while forward Saido Berahino has joined the squad to replace injured Chuks Aneke. Manager John Peacock knows the start was a good one.

"We obviously have to build on that performance," Peacock said. "The first game is always the toughest in any tournament but we can take a lot of plusses from that. Saying that, there are several things we still need to work on. [Greece] have been beaten so they'll be working very hard to get the result."

Greece will be boosted by the return of defenders Spyridon Fourlanos and Mavroudis Bougaidis from suspension, though another regular at the back, Ioannis Polychronakis, has a ban after a red card against Turkey. Coach Leonidas Vokolos is not letting the opening loss get his team down.

"England are next, and I said before that I see every game are separate," Vokolos told UEFA.com. "We know England are a very good team, we have seen them on DVD, one of the best in the tournament. But in football you can never say beforehand who will win, we will give our best against England and I hope we have more luck."