Young Blues feature in dramatic England draw

The trick is for Martinez to help develop these young men into PL players. This will be key for us in the coming seasons. We have had too many false promises. That's real coaching, taking the promise and turning it into reality.

Would like that Iran winger who scored the equalizer running down our left wing.

I really think we should sign him up to a long term deal or I can see him being poached. Wouldn't it be ironic if Moyes came back for him after showing him so few opportunities in an Everton shirt?

Lundstram is a very talented player but he absolutely is not a winger. He is all about great distribution and neat touches. He's not going to take players on and was wasted out there.

Really depressing game to be honest. Still playing 4-5-1 and still favouring a big lumbering 'English centre forward'. I think Kane did alright in truth, but I thought we were trying to adapt our game from youth level, rather than sticking to the same tried, tested and failed formula of the last 20 years.

Coaching of all the England teams needs overhauling, as it's depressing watching the rigidity of our play at all levels. So much for the U20's saying they would restore English pride. That said Chile looked poor at times as did Egypt (how their no.4 didn't score a first half hat-trick I'll never know). We should still qualify based on what I've seen of the opposition...

Good opportunity for our boys but pre-season is when they need to continue to impress so they our given their opportunity in the first team. Be good to see these lads given playing time.

Surely our U20s should be smashing Iraq. No disrespect to them meant, they have no major league or infrastructure to develop football teams and our boys are coming from what should be one of the most advanced on the planet.

I've been gutted for years that our U21s have been under the guidance of Psycho Pearse. The man has the spirit of a warrior and would run through walls for his team but when it comes to teasing the technical aspects out of developing players in the modern game, he was never going to be up to scratch.

Our FA need to sit down, as the Belgians did a few years back and form a long-term plan. It involves a first-team manager with vision and a playing policy which starts in the youth leagues and stretches up to the seniors.

Never going to happen mind!

He does lose the ball a lot though, it's kind of worth it for what he tries to create. Reminds me of what Joe Cole was criticised for before Mourinho started insisting he took care of the ball.

Lundstram was very tidy in his passing, not sure what he was doing on the wing.

They wouldn't be a bad couple of midfielders for Everton.

I missed Longs cameo but it's great to see so many young blues involved.

Exciting times!

Which makes me wonder about this 'investment' argument that says England should be great.

Sure, money buys you the best players, but does it make them?

I expect the Iraq players have more to play for.

Perhaps we'll never have the culture to nurture Brazil / Spain type players (or even Nigeria, who were great to watch last night).

That said, we should be able to manage something similar to ze Germans.

From an England point of view fairly depressing. I wouldn't udnerestimate Irag - they are pretty good at this level. But England just looked like the other age levels - flat, ponderous etc. Surely we have better coaches than Pearce and Taylor?

I thought Lundstram was poor, but probably because he's not a winger. I can see he'd have the physique and ability to do a really good job in the centre though.

We have to look at English football from grassroots up, because if we don't, I can see the likes of Belgium winning a major tournament before us.

We have to look at what the Germans have done. They finished bottom of their Euro 2000 group, and they knew that changes should be made, and they did.

I can really see us missing out on the World Cup next year, I really can.

I would say that by international under 20 level, the players who have played in the top teams in Europe, South America and to a lesser extent the J and C Leagues have been coached by supposedly the best in the game (many of the best African players develop in European youth league). Their overall awareness of tactics and training methods should be far in advance of those without the same facilities. These players are well-paid (comparatively) professionals, focussed on a career in football (no part time jobs etc). The training and influence of highly qualified trainers should mean that their technique develops beyond the levels of naturally gifted individuals without the same opportunities (in a country like Iraq I doubt they have the same level of football infrastructure as in England).

By their age, the level of investment that has gone into making them international standard athletes should be paying off. Obviously this isn’t the case in this instance as the Iraqis have recorded a draw against them. I would suggest that something isn’t right somewhere if the cream of our U21 and U20 teams can’t pick apart teams like Iraq.

We were led to believe that Brooking was going to shake everything up but after seven or so years in the job we are still at square one. What on earth is going on?

As regards Lundstram - he played as a defensive midfielder when on loan at Doncaster last year, he is not a winger and never will be.

His body shape is that of a powerful, dynamic shape, capable of fast acceleration say over 30-50yds, using strength of his lower torso and upper legs. These types of athletes are not usually good for long endurance games, and if you looked at the recent U20's match he was switched to a wide position for last 15 mins as he wasn't doing anything in centre midfield and we were being overrun there.

NO, NO, three of these players are good enough to be in the match-day squad and get a game.

It's way past time now that we blood our best youth through the ranks in squad.

I've never seen anything like it. The gulf in quality between us and Chile is absolutely ridiculous. 35 minutes gone and the South Americans have had 67% possession.

I'm not one who prides possession over goals but some of the tactics (or lack of) employed by England wouldn't have looked out of place in a Sunday League side. At the kick-off, after Chile's goal, we lined up with 2 men on the left touch line. The ball was rolled back to a central midfielder who lumped it at the corner flag for the 2 left wingers to chase onto. That sums us up.

I'd like to blame the players...but it's every single one of them. Absolutely hopeless, completely devoid of technical ability.

The positive news for us Blues is that Barkley looked the best player by a country mile. He set up our goal and made countless driving runs from box to box. He really is an exciting player when he gets the ball.

Stones was very average like every other England player.