England secured the final quarter-final place at the Men's Junior Hockey World Cup today ©FIH

England became the last team to qualify for the quarter-final stages of the Men's Junior Hockey World Cup in Lucknow thanks to a convincing victory over Canada today.

The 6-0 score-line, in which Edward Horler scored a hat-trick, confirmed a second-place finish in pool D which sets up a last eight meeting against reigning champions Germany, the winners of pool C.

Elsewhere in the quarter-finals, Australia will face The Netherlands while host nation India take on Spain.

Belgium and Argentina will square off in the final encounter, following their senior teams facing each other in Rio 2016 Olympic Games final.

The pool D meeting between England and Canada was the first match today, with the European side producing a dominant performance to confirm a quarter-final berth. 

Will Calnan and Ed Horler both scored twice in the first half to take the score to 4-0 before the latter completed his hat-trick with his third penalty corner effort of the day in the 46th minute.

A superb backhand volley from Chris Proctor in 54th minute finished the match scoring.

“It was all about going out there and doing a job, as a lot of people were talking about the quarter-finals but we knew Canada would be a tough side and we had to get the job done,” said England captain James Gall after the match.

Australia defeated South Korea to maintain their 100 per cent record ©FIH
Australia defeated South Korea to maintain their 100 per cent record ©FIH

“You know what you get with them, we have played them a lot.

"They are a good side, but we will debrief this performance, plan for the next match and have a really good go at them.”

The pool phase was brought to a close by Australia, who made it three wins from three matches with a 5-0 triumph over South Korea.

The Asians managed to keep the Burras off the score-sheet for 25 minutes before Frazer Gerrard slammed home a penalty corner.

Blake Govers then netted a quick-fire double just before half time to take the score to 3-0.

Max Hendry and Kirin Arunasalam were also on target for an Australia team determined to land their first Junior Hockey World Cup title since 1997.  

Tomorrow will feature matches involving teams competing for positions nine to 16 in the overall classification.

In the 13 to 16 play-off matches, Egypt take on Japan while South Korea meet Canada.

Meanwhile, in the nine to 12 matches, Austria square off against South Africa and Malaysia play New Zealand.

The quarter-finals will then take place on Thursday (December 15).