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Former France forward, Thierry Henry, has been appointed coach of the country's under-21 team on a two-year contract.

PSG target Michael Olise has suffered a hamstring injury while on duty with France U21s, casting doubts over the rest of his tournament and pre-season preparation.

Max Aarons said this week that if England are to win this summer’s Under-21 European Championships they would have to have the right mentality to get through the tough times and their win against France was the perfect dress rehearsal.

The quarter-finals are played on Monday as the competition resumes in Hungary and Slovenia two months after the group stage ended.

(Maribor, 18:00 CET) Holders Spain only conceded once in qualifying and kept three clean sheets in March, leaving them as one of two unbeaten teams across the competition so far, along with Denmark. And they have a reputation to keep up: Spain have never lost a U21 EURO knockout game before the final since the tournament format was introduced in 1998. Croatia, by contrast, made it past the group stage for the first time when Domagoj Bradarićs spectacular added-time strike against England pull...

Mikhail Galaktionov, Russia coach We played against both Iceland and France at U17 level. Iceland stood out to us as a very strong outfit that plays good football. As for France, theyre a top side whose players practically all play in [top] leagues in Europe. We do not know that much about this particular [Denmark team] but we familiarised ourselves with the games played by previous generations in the Danish youth set-up. When we took over the team two and a half years ago, we knew this big gr...