England’s Adam Lallana scored his first global goal with the last kick of the game as the visitors beat 10-man Slovakia 1-0 in their World Cup Group F qualifier Sunday to get new manager Sam Allardyce’s reign off to a winning start.
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“The England manager needs to get a grip on his captain and tell him to play higher up the field”, Sutton wrote.
Rooney, winning his 116th cap, mainly played a deep midfield role in Sunday’s 1-0 win over Slovakia, which was new boss Sam Allardyce’s first in charge.
England could have opened the scoring not long before as Theo Walcott’s strike was ruled offside after the ball took a slight nick off Daniel Sturridge on its way to the Arsenal man, seeing the linesman raise his flag despite protests by the visiting players.
“So using his experience with a team, and playing as a team member, it’s not for me to say where he’s going to play”.
“We have had a really good camp, good training sessions and we are delighted to reward him with a win”.
He added: “I’ve done it my whole career and suddenly it’s big news. I am happy where I’m playing and I think I’m doing a good job”.
“It was a good battle up there and we created some good chances, I had some half-chances that on another day could have sneaked in but overall I was happy with the way things went”.
Harry Kane admits that England could still be feeling the effects of their poor showing at Euro 2016.
“When you score in the last few seconds it’s a good feeling, I had one in the Premier League last season against Norwich, which was also nice”, he said.
Elsewhere, Germany made a flying start to its mission to become the first country in more than 50 years to defend its World Cup title.
Mueller scrambled in the opener in the 15th minute after his first attempt was blocked by Even Hovland and Havard Nordtveit before heading in his second on the hour.
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Slovenia staged a late fightback to draw 2-2 at Lithuania, Denmark won 1-0 over Armenia.
