Spain’s Mario Gaspar, right, celebrates with Paco Alcacer, left, and Cesc Fabregas after scoring the opening goal during an global friendly soccer match between Spain and England at the Rico Perez Stadium in Alicante, Spain, Friday, November 13, 2015.
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“I thought the result flattered them, even though they had a lot of the ball”, said centre-back Cahill.
“He’s a fighter and I think that’s part of his game and it going to be very hard for anyone to ask him not to do that”.
Dele Alli, Eric Dier and Jonjo Shelvey have just nine caps between them, while Fabian Delph is unlikely to start having just come back from injury and Ross Barkley may also need a rest after playing the whole 90 minutes in Spain.
The Three Lions crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Spain in Alicante on Friday, their first defeat in 16 games since going down to Uruguay during England’s disastrous World Cup campaign in Brazil. It was on that occasion that Spain profited and actually went on to win the game. “We are young but there are players here who have played club football in the Premier League for a long time now and will try to grow our experience with the national team”, Sterling said.
“We’ve got to stay confident”.
“We all want to play the games and give the manager something to think about with our performances”.
England have kept four successive clean sheets, while Spain are on a five-match sequence without being breached. We were hoping on the counterattack we could cause problems but we didn’t profit enough from those moments. We’ve got another tough test against France, which we want to win.
“We had a few chances, we were in the game”.
“We conceded the second goal with Smalling limping, so we didn’t have the best of luck in those areas. Hopefully still playing for England and still playing at a high level”. I’ve scored three in my worldwide career and I want to score as many as possible.
England’s unbeaten run has gone on for 17 months since the last World Cup and there may be a feeling that this will continue against a Spanish side that has shown lacklustre signs in recent matches.
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Hodgson was pessimisitic about Jamie Vardy recovering from fluid on the knee to face France on Tuesday.
