England under-21s are the favourites to win the European Championship that is going to be held in Denmark. Bhey will be joined by Spain, Czech Republic and Ukraine in group B. Stuart Pearce’s men, who were runners-up in 2009 and semi-finalists two years earlier, appear to have paid the price for narrowly failing to secure seeded status for the tournament as they now face a struggle to qualify from the strongest of the two groups.

Group A seems to be the gentler of the two groups, containing hosts Denmark, Switzerland, Belarus and Iceland, who were seeded just ahead of England. The Three Lions have been teamed with Spain for the second consecutive tournament, having beaten them during the group phase in 2009, and they begin this summer’s campaign against the Spanish on June 12th in Herning, where they will also play Ukraine four days later.