Kane, 23, started as England’s lone striker in Sam Allardyce’s first game as manager, a 2018 World Cup qualifier in Trnava, settled by Adam Lallana’s 95th-minute victor. I am happy to be in the box and hopefully I will get a goal for it. He’s the one who gives us the best delivery. I had it with me in my pocket, we won, so it’ll stay with me.
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“They have been together for a long time with their manager and they have some good players so we knew it was going to be tough”. It’s got us a last minute victor.
When predecessor Roy Hodgson gave his reluctant farewell press conference in Chantilly he suggested that the awful defeat to Iceland at Euro 2016 might leave the young squad mentally scarred and predicted they would take some time to heal.
What would have become of the coin had Lallana not swept home his first global goal with virtually the last kick of the game is uncertain.
While Allardyce has not given up hope of Rooney adding to his record 53 England goals, he also made it clear that the main scoring burden now lies elsewhere.
“If I was a manager, I wouldn’t want a “nearly man” in my team”.
Tottenham star Harry Kane was at the centre of a red card call on Sunday when he had his ankle trodden on by Fenerbache centre-back Martin Skrtel during England’s 1-0 victory over Slovakia in their opening 2018 World Cup qualification clash.
That jarred with previous assertions that he would be guided by Rooney’s use at Manchester United, where Jose Mourinho has used him as an advanced number 10.
Afterwards Allardyce said he was happy for the player to make his own decisions on his positioning but Rooney does not understand the fuss. He was brilliant and controlled midfield.
“I think that he holds a lot more experience at global football than me as an worldwide manager”.
Tottenham, who have started their league campaign with five points from three games, will next visit bottom club Stoke City on Saturday.
“But I haven’t asked what their biggest fear is”.
“If so, great. We’d like to get him into goalscoring positions more”.
“I must admit, he did play a little deeper than I thought he’d play today, but I was pleased with his performance”.
“We use a company with many facets in the locker and we use them on a consistent basis to help them build more resilience and to cope with pressure better, even though they already deal with a lot of pressure”, he said. They want you to show the way forward and be successful and it’s that much bigger when the nation’s watching you.
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“The result did us justice in the end”. It was impossible to try and attempt to reply to all the goodwill messages from across the country. We dominated the game and finally got what we deserved.
