At this point, he is only disrupted the positioning of his own teammates, Eric Dier and Jordan Henderson.
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After another indifferent performance for England at the weekend, captain Wayne Rooney’s place in the team has been place under scrutiny once again.
It meant the ghosts of England’s Euro 2016 exit at the hands of Iceland began to be laid to rest.
“They’re a happy bunch, not a damaged bunch”, he said. “I saw a little nervous tension”.
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. We had a bit of a laugh and a joke with the manager (Allardyce) about it, but it’s something that happened.
The former Sunderland coach took charge of his first England game on Sunday and his team secured a 1-0 win away in Slovakia.
“But we have to be courageous and we have to get balls with quality forward and get players in good positions and hit them as quick as we can”. It’s got us a last-minute victor.
“But we are getting better in every game and it is a really boost that we won and hopefully we can kick on now in the rest of the group games”.
Keown believes it was a display that suggests Stones has a big future in the game.
“Of course, they will always prefer stronger team”.
“On an worldwide stage it’s learning how to deal with it”. “Sometimes you’ve just got to stick it out until the last minute and thankfully we got the goal”.
“I got this lucky penny off a lad today in the hotel”, he explained. I will have a check on it and see if it’s fully OK, but there were a few challenges that I felt could have earned him a yellow card but it didn’t come. Sir Alex, in the end, used him in that role.
Rooney has already surpassed Sir Bobby Charlton’s England goals record and is closing in on his long-standing haul for Manchester United.
We hit the post, had a goal wrongly disallowed for offside, had several shots on target. then Adam scores. “Adam scored the goal to get us off to an excellent start (in the campaign)”.
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“If they had created some great play and scored a nice goal, you say it is okay, but not such as a goal in the stoppage time”.
