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Liverpool midfielder Henderson says England U21 will bounce back

Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson says England U21 will bounce back from last night's defeat to Belgium.

Martin Kelly's early goal looked set to maintain England's 100% record in the group but a double substitution by Belgium proved their undoing as Jens Naessens equalised 18 minutes from time and Omar El Kaddouri pounced in the dying seconds after Henderson missed a glorious chance for the visitors.

The Liverpool midfielder said: "We have a lot of work to do and hopefully this will give us a wake-up call for the games ahead.

"We need to be more streetwise in the last minutes not to concede but we will learn from that and come back stronger."

He added: "We are very disappointed. We felt we did well in the second half when we settled into the game and I personally had a chance to finish it but we are still top of the group, in a good position and we need to win our last three games.

"The games are not easy but we came here to do a job and unfortunately we didn't."

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