At last England win a game on Penalties!

Hi all

Very sorry for the delay on posting this final update but technical problems and a late finish to the final day of the tournament on Saturday, followed by 27 hours of travel to get home have meant I can only post this update today!

What a thrilling finale. An epic 5-5 draw on Saturday saw England finally grab the bronze winning 4-3 on penalties getting revenge on Argentina for the group game, consigning them to 4th place. In the final this 17 goal thriller could not be reproduced and with no goals scored after full and extra time the Ukrainians finally produced a shock win on penalties. Well done to them for the first defeat in 10 years for Belarusians.

The Argentinians with huge home crowd support came out as predicted like a whirlwind but both sides produced chances with the home team finally getting the breakthrough from the clinical number 10. That's how it stayed until early in the second half when John McDougal levelled the score for his first goal of the tournament. Argentina quickly went 2-1 up and again the crowd went beserk with their array of drums whistles and horns. England levelled again with a well worked goal and this is how the scoring continued until it was 4-4 (full match report at the fa.com). With about a minute to go all hell broke loose when Argentina went 5-4 up and the party of victory started. However, Hugo Costa worked his magic and smashed a shot home into the top corner with only 29 seconds remaining to stun the players and crowd.

Unlike previous England teams the lads never looked like missing any of their 4 penalties and when the last Argentinian shot wide their fate was sealed.

Well done to the England squad for being the third best team in the World and the current highest ranked England football team from any squad!!

Bring on the Europeans in June!