In Pictures: Republic of Ireland u21 2 – 2 Italy u21

Killian Philips celebrates scoring for the Ireland u21 team at Turner's Cross

Killian Philips celebrates scoring for the Ireland u21 team at Turner's Cross Credit: David Ribeiro (ETPhotos)

Ireland and Italy played out a 2-2 at Turner’s Cross on Tuesday night in front of 6,157 spectators in their EURO u21 2025 qualifier.

David Ribeiro’s photo gallery can be viewed here.

Killian Philips and Sinclair Armstrong were the goalscorers for Jim Crawford’s team. However, a Wilfried Gnoto double including his 96th equaliser meant the teams took a point each out of the game.

Italy top the EURO group by a point from Ireland with Norway a further point behind.

Ireland: Josh Keeley; Bosun Lawal, Anselmo Garcia-McNulty, Sean Grehan; Sam Curtis, Baba Adeeko, Matt Healy, Killian Phillips, Sean Roughan (Tayo Adaramola 90+1); Sinclair Armstrong (Johnny Kenny 82), Aidomo Emakhu (Adam Murphy 90+3).

Italy: Sebastiano Desplanches; Mattia Zanotti, Diego Coppola, Lorenzo Pirola, Riccardo Calafiori (Riccardo Turricchia 83); Edoardo Bove, Matteo Prati, Giovanni Fabbian, Cher N’Dour (Luca Koleosho 56); Pio Esposito, Wilfried Gnonto.

Referee: Lionel Tschudi (Switzerland).