England debutant Myles Lewis-Skelly wrote a new page of Three Lions history with his opening goal in Friday’s World Cup 2026 qualifier against Albania.
The 18-year-old went from playing for the Under-19s to starting for the first team in the space of a few months, being given the nod at left-back for Thomas Tuchel‘s first game in charge.
As dream debuts go, Lewis-Skelly’s was the epitome, as the Hale End product scored the first goal of the Tuchel era with a tidy low finish after being slipped through by Jude Bellingham.
Myles Lewis-Skelly on his debut! 🤩
The first @England goal of the Thomas Tuchel era#ITVFootball | #ThreeLions pic.twitter.com/y9BvWydGt8
— ITV Football (@itvfootball) March 21, 2025
By poking the ball through Thomas Strakosha‘s legs at Wembley, Lewis-Skelly became the youngest player to ever score on their debut for England, aged just 18 years and 176 days.
Before Lewis-Skelly’s strike, Marcus Rashford previously held the record of England’s youngest scoring debutant, netting at 18 years and 209 days in a friendly with Australia in May 2016.
The Three Lions were not short of chances to pull further ahead before half time, as Lewis-Skelly’s fellow debutant Dan Burn saw his thumping header kept out by a combination of the bar and Strakosha.
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