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Gareth Southgate promised style over substance after taking over this summer.

At Portman Road he got both, as England's Under-21s ran rings around their Lithuania counterparts.

Ravel Morrison hit another wonder-goal, similar to the one against Spurs nine days ago – but this was about more than that.

This was about showing that Southgate’s rising stars do possess the technique and talent so often said to be lacking from our kids.

It has taken time to coax the confidence out of them.

England's kids scraped a 1-0 win over Moldova's at home last month – and they could also only manage a draw in Finland two days later.

But they found their stride in San Marino last week.

Lithuania, too, were left dizzy from an exhibition of tricks, flicks, stepovers and dragbacks.

Wilfried Zaha, Morrison and Thomas Ince excelled.

Zaha, in particular, did his best to remind David Moyes that for all the hype about Adnan Januzaj there is still a useful commodity sitting in the Manchester United reserves collecting dust.

The 20-year-old winger capped a four-man move with a shimmy and a cross for Morrison to score after a minute and 56 seconds.

Southampton’s James Ward-Prowse bent the ball like Beckham over a static Lithuanian wall to make it 2-0 on 27 minutes.

Then England moved into cruise control and West Brom striker Saido Berahino hit a pearler from Zaha’s through ball on 62 minutes.

Magic Morrison then got the fourth nine minutes later. He picked up the ball on the half-way line, skipped through the defence and rounded the keeper.

And Berahino made it five with a 75th-minute penalty after Jack Robinson had been brought down by Edgaras Zarskis.