Sir Alex Ferguson is the most recent victim of Ineos’s cost-cutting drive at Manchester United, with the legendary manager informed his multi-million pound club ambassador contract has been cut.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos, who bought a 27.7 per cent stake in United last February, have been making widespread cuts to reduce costs at Old Trafford, including 250 jobs across the club.
Ferguson was in charge of United from 1986 to 2013 and had been kept on as a global club ambassador and director since stepping down from the managerial hotseat.
While he will remain a non-executive director at the club for the foreseeable future, he will no longer be paid beyond the end of this season, according to The Athletic.
In the only official description of Ferguson’s ambassadorial role, in the club’s 2014 accounts, it was outlined that he received £2.16m for his services annually.
Ferguson will continue on the club’s football board, a predominantly ceremonial body, but not on the official board – the football board also featured Sir Bobby Charlton before his death last year.
The Scot’s departure is reportedly amicable and the decision was wholly taken by Ineos, with the Glazers happy to continue paying Ferguson for his lasting impact on the club and its wider finances.
Ratcliffe reportedly informed Ferguson of his decision face-to-face and he is expected to continue attending both home and away matches when he can.
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The FA Cup first round proper draw has thrown up a derby clash between AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons as all 48 League One and League Two sides discovered their opponents.
Wimbledon won the most recent clash between the two sides 3-0, but a place in the second round will add extra needle to an already-tense tie.
Teams earn £45,000 for winning first-round matches, while losers still bag £15,000, which can be hugely impactful money for non-league sides.
Birmingham, the highest-ranked club currently in the competition at the top of League One, visit Sutton United – the Blues spent more on transfers this summer than Sutton have in their history.
Meanwhile Wrexham, who sit two points behind the leaders in second, are faced with a visit to League Two outfit Harrogate Town.
All games will take place between Friday 1 and Monday 4 November and Premier League and Championship teams don’t enter the competition until the third round.
FA Cup first round draw in full
Rotherham United vs Cheltenham Town
Barrow vs Doncaster Rovers
Worthing vs Morecambe
Boreham Wood vs Leyton Orient
Exeter City vs Barnet
Carlisle United vs Wigan Athletic
Tamworth vs Huddersfield Town
Hartlepool United/Brackley Town vs Braintree Town
Curzon Ashton vs Mansfield Town
Wycombe Wanders vs York City
Bradford City vs Aldershot Town
Hednesford Town/Gateshead vs Gainsborough Trinity/Boston United
Burton Albion vs Scarborough Athletic
Tranmere Rovers vs Oldham Athletic
Rochdale vs Bromley
Walsall vs Bolton Wanderers
Grimsby Town vs Wealdstone
Bristol Rovers vs Weston-super-Mare
MK Dons vs AFC Wimbledon
Altrincham/Solihull Moors vs Maidstone United
Stockport County vs Forest Green Rovers
Reading vs Fleetwood Town
Stevenage vs Guiseley
Northampton Town vs Kettering Town
Rushall/Peterborough Sports vs Accrington Stanley
Swindon Town vs Colchester United
Salford City vs Shrewsbury Town
Crewe Alexandra vs Dagenham & Redbridge
Port Vale vs Barnsley
Chesham United vs Lincoln City
Chesterfield vs Horsham
Southend United vs Charlton Athletic
Notts County vs Alfreton Town
Taunton Town/Maidenhead United vs Crawley Town
Harrogate Town vs Wrexham
Woking vs Cambridge United
Gillingham vs Blackpool
Tonbridge Angels vs Harborough Town
Sutton United vs Birmingham City
Newport County vs Peterborough United
Northern Premier League West side Hednesford Town are the lowest-ranked team left in the draw, but they will have to beat Gateshead in a replay if they are to make the first round proper.
They have been drawn against either Northern Premier League Premier Division side Gainsborough Trinity or National League Boston United, meaning this will become one of three all non-league clashes.
One of Tonbridge Angels of the National League South facing Southern League Premier Division Central side Harborough Town are also guaranteed a spot in the second round.
The same goes for Altrincham or Solihull Moors, who will face last year’s giant killers Maidstone.
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Lewis Cook couldn’t stop crying – a feeling he says he had never experienced before. The Yorkshire-born midfielder was lying on the touchline of a Championship stadium and everything he wanted had fallen apart.
What was worse: he knew exactly what had happened and what it meant for the next year of his life. The crack, the tingle, the numbness, the medics; it made sense in the worst way.
Let’s wind back. Cook had always been tipped for elite-level football. He is one of a select band of English players who have featured for their country at every level from Under-16s up to the seniors. He joined Leeds United at eight years old after being scouted in his local Tadcaster, breaking into the first team when still a kid.
Then-Leeds manager Neil Redfearn recalls watching Cook in those early days, grabbing senior professionals and making them close down.
The team were losing 4-1 against Ipswich and Cook was leading the team at 17.
“I could see Cooky captaining England one day,” Redfearn said.
Then, nothing seemed likely to stop him. Cook joined Premier League side Bournemouth in 2016, got his first call-up for the England senior squad in 2017, made his senior debut in March 2018 against Italy and was on the five-man standby list for the World Cup in Russia that summer.
When Jermain Defoe arrived at Bournemouth and trained with Cook, then aged 21, he compared him to Luka Modric for his ball retention and protection. Let’s call it high praise indeed, albeit Cook laughs and says: “I think he probably must have only seen a glimpse, and only once.”
When Cook wore the armband for England’s Under-20s in 2017, he became the first England player since Bobby Moore to lift a World Cup trophy. It’s fair to say that the Football Association liked him. He has not played for England since. Plenty else has happened.
In December 2018, during a home Premier League win over Huddersfield Town, Cook made an innocuous challenge and ruptured his right anterior cruciate ligament. He was 21. During his rehabilitation, Cook visited four different countries for specialist advice and managed to get back fit in nine months, a remarkable effort given the severity of the damage. His professional world began to rebuild.
And then it happened again, two and a half years later: same innocuous challenge on him, same knee, same injury, only this time double the emotional heft. And so we arrive back at the tears. Shortly before turning 25, Cook had started 81 league games in five seasons at Bournemouth.
“The second one was tough, because I knew what the road ahead looked like from the start,” he says.
“I know how hard it is for players to come back from serious injuries. It’s a tough place to move away from. But once the crying and emotions were done, at least I knew what I had to do.”
Cook has one goal and two assists in seven league games this season (Photo: Getty)
In 2022, Bournemouth released a documentary about Cook’s recovery. Towards the start of the documentary, Cook looks into the camera: “I am Lewis Cook and I am relentless.” That is what jumped out most to Bournemouth’s medical staff and the coaches, this burning desire to get fit, stay fit, be the best.
“The main reason for me making it was that I knew what was coming this time,” he says. “It was for other people, really. By creating a documentary, it might help one or two others to come through similar experiences.
“It was invasive, but it wasn’t every second of every day. Hopefully it gave some insight and support into the mental, emotional and physical side of recovery.”
Now 27, Cook’s career has clearly been revitalised by him staying fit – 2023-24 was the first of his career with more than 30 league starts – but also by the arrival of Andoni Iraola to Bournemouth. Under Gary O’Neil, Cook was left on the bench 15 times in 2022-23 as O’Neil often rotated between Joe Rothwell and Philip Billing in central midfield.
Under Iraola, whose first-choice pairing is Cook and Ryan Christie, Cook has flourished. Last season in the Premier League, Rodri was the only regular outfield starter to recover the ball more often and Cook made more interceptions than any other Premier League midfielder. In raw numbers of ball recoveries, everyone else in the top 10 are regular internationals.
At the end of last season, with squad places for the European Championship being rumoured and with Jordan Henderson’s place seemingly up for grabs, Bournemouth expected Football Association representation at the Vitality Stadium that never came.
Instead, England went for youth in Kobbie Mainoo and Adam Wharton; Angel Gomes has since been drafted in. There are plenty at Bournemouth who feel that Cook’s consistency has been overlooked.
“I look back on the age group teams with a huge amount of happiness,” he says.
“I made friends with some excellent teammates and was mentored by some fine coaches. It was a great time. It also showed me that there was a pathway right through to the top and that I was capable of moving through it.
“It’s an amazing achievement to play for your country even once – I was so delighted to be around it, for my family as much as me. If you’re starting regularly in the Premier League as an English player, you should always be working to get into the senior squad, because if you’re playing every week then you can’t be too far away from it. And you never know. I’ll never stop trying to get there.”
The answer, obvious and simple, is to keep doing what you’re doing. Cook is in the top five for tackles and interceptions in the Premier League this season. Iraola loves his work rate and loves the distance he covers. In Christie and Cook, he has two selfless central midfielders. This is a player who Eddie Howe once said ran more than he had ever seen in a player before.
“It’s a requirement in the Premier League now,” Cook says about fitness levels that have repeatedly impressed Bournemouth’s coaches.
“We get our statistical data for every game, and lots get said online, but every player has to be at a point where they are physically elite. If you aren’t, you get run over and outmuscled. It’s an incredibly intense league and everybody I come against is a physical beast.”
Bournemouth 3-1 Southampton (Monday 30 September)
Game no.: 23/92
Miles: 190
Cumulative miles: 3,565
Total goals seen: 56
The one thing I’ll remember in May: The cheers – audible on the live TV coverage – when the stadium announcer told Southampton supporters that their train home had been cancelled.
But what’s most interesting is how Cook is being developed by Iraola. He has taken on a role as progressive passer in Bournemouth’s midfield alongside the physical work. He has never assisted more than three goals in a league season but managed two against Southampton when I was in attendance a fortnight ago.
The number of shots per game have almost doubled from last season to this. He’s almost matched his total touches in the opposition penalty area from last season in seven matches.
“When I came through I was a centrally defensive midfielder, but at Leeds I’d play some games as a No 6, then I’d be a No 10, sometimes on the wing. At Bournemouth, apart from in the Championship, I’ve never really played deeper like I am now.
“I’ve always thought that I could chip in with goals and assists, but previously I perhaps didn’t understand that I had the licence to go and make a difference in the opposition penalty area when playing deep. With Ryan [Christie] often coming deeper now too, I can do that. Obviously whenever I score, the next few games I’ll be shooting more! But if there’s a new way that I can make a difference, I have to do that.”
Perhaps England will come knocking again, perhaps they won’t. Perhaps he suffers a little for playing at Bournemouth, a club for whom he is still the only England international in their history. Perhaps he is now in an age bracket, at 27, where the thoughts of coaches turn to those five years younger.
All of that seems a little harsh, if true. Cook was touted for stardom. The journey became longer and harder because of injuries that have threatened the elite careers of others, and yet here he is playing the best football of his life.
But Cook is sanguine enough to avoid any bitterness. The only answer, his mantra on repeat, is to work harder and longer to become stronger. When you have been through the tears and fears of 2018 and 2021, you learn to appreciate football in the present rather than focus too much on what might be. The best thing to do is play and play and play.
“The only target I have is to rack up as many matches as I can,” he says.
“I’m a hugely competitive person. When I do something I want to be the best at it.
“When you finish football you have to know that you did everything you could. That’s the only way you can live without regrets. When I come to look back on this career, that number will be what I look back on: how many appearances did I have? Goals and assists are nice, and of course you want to win games and stay in the Premier League. But it’s about playing as many games as I can.”
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HELSINKI — Waiting for Pep. The proposed title of a farce based on England’s post Gareth Southgate period. It deals entirely with the media-manager interface exploring the oddity of an interim coach who knows the truth of his situation but does not want to tell, or is sworn not to, and reporters who suspect they know the reality but cannot say with certainty.
And in the middle of all this is a group of players, annexed from the real business of football at this stage of the season, their clubs, being asked to play for their country in a series of sub-optimal encounters in a competition of questionable merit. Shakespeare would have a ton of fun with this for it touches on so much of human life: kingship, duty, power, desire, doubts and insecurities.
Poor Lee Carsley. Whatever responsibilities he volunteered to undertake with the national team, he would not have anticipated a game of cat and mouse with the media. He would have been better prepared having done a season on Strictly Come Dancing, where quick feet and changes of direction are meat and drink to participants.
The “would-Lee-wouldn’t-he” dynamic was in play from the very first press conference. When the Football Association announced Carsley as interim coach they presumed that what was said on the tin would be taken at face value. It might have been had the reporter class rolled off an AI production line. The human variety is by trade curious and minded to go off-piste. So the question of Carsley wanting the job permanently was a natural one to ask.
The reply rolled out felt prepared. He had been tasked with looking after the team for six matches and that is what he would be doing. The focus was on preparing the team during a three-month period to allow his employers at the FA to progress the search for a full-time coach. All good at the point. And then a ball was kicked.
Against Ireland in Dublin we were watching a Carsley team. It started well, with two goals in the first half, one of them by the returning Jack Grealish, which was enough to ruin the FA schema. Having been jettisoned by Southgate, the return of Grealish to the pitch and the scoresheet carried its own momentum, as did the selection of Angel Gomes, who did so well in the second match at home to Finland and again in the return match on Sunday.
Carsley’s positive start had now made him a candidate, or at least substantiated the question that was asked before a ball was kicked. And it would be asked again and again, requiring Carsley to dance in ever decreasing circles until, eventually, in Helsinki the sequins popped from his waistcoat.
He told broadcasters that the England job was one for a world-class coach with a proven track record, seemingly ruling himself out. He then told the official post-match conference that he had not ruled himself out and that what he was really trying to say was the job itself was world class, one of the top coaching positions in the game, and yes, since he was doing the job, he assumed he was under consideration.
And this after he had told reporters before the trip to Finland that he was looking forward to returning to his position as under-21 coach. Indeed the defeat against Greece last Thursday led to reports that he didn’t want the job. He had, we were told, revealed to some squad members that he was not interested in the job full time. It was clear following the victory in Helsinki that Carsley hardly knew which way was up. And for this the blame was not his alone.
The FA’s silence on the matter has exposed Carsley in a way he never imagined. Perhaps this was all part of the audition, leaving him at the mercy of an avaricious media to see how he coped with the “impossible job”. As well as skewering the temporary gaffer, unintentionally or otherwise, the uncertainty necessarily invites conjecture. Namely, if not Carsley then who?
Carsley is the continuity candidate. He has come through the FA system. The players love him. They enjoy the low-key, lads-together vibe he has created along with the new coaching staff brought up from the under-21s of Ashley Cole and Joleon Lescott.
There are other English coaches of varying merit. Currently resting Graham Potter. Newcastle’s Eddie Howe has been mentioned. Of the foreign possibilities Thomas Tuchel is twiddling his thumbs, and then there is the dream candidate, Pep Guardiola, seemingly at a crossroads with Manchester City fighting an “existential” battle against the Premier League in which the soul of the game is said to be at stake.
City’s director of football and Guardiola confidante, Txiki Bergiristain, has announced his departure at the season’s end. Is Guardiola minded to follow? If so, the England job, the impossible job, would appear the perfect fit for the greatest coach of the age, who has won all there is to win in club football.
You could see how the challenge of solving the vexing England puzzle would appeal, and though the FA might not be willing to meet his £20m annual salary, there is always a compromise to be reached between willing parties. Somebody at the FA knows what’s going on. Now would be a good time to explain their working out before the Carsley merry-go-round winds up again next month for the final Nations League fixtures.
Failure to do so will trigger a repeat of the same indigestible soup served in Helsinki, and with a game to win in Greece to avoid the unwanted play-offs next year, not to mention readiness for World Cup qualifying in March, it is incumbent on Carsley’s employers at the FA to bail out both him and us.
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In July 2016 Southgate was asked by then Football Association chief Martin Glenn if he would be willing to step up from his then role as under-21 manager following the departure of Roy Hodgson and politely declined, making clear that he did not want the job on either a temporary or permanent basis, on the grounds that he did not feel ready for it at that stage of his career.
The FA went on to run a formal recruitment process to appoint the England manager, which did not pan as planned out. Arsene Wenger and Jurgen Klinsmann were among the dream candidates sounded out before Sam Allardyce came out on top of a more prosaic shortlist that also included Alan Pardew and Brendan Rodgers, but took charge of just one match after a newspaper sting.
Allardyce’s defenestration after just 67 days led the FA to return to Southgate as an emergency measure as England had a World Cup qualifier against Malta less than a fortnight later, and the rest is history. Even after four matches as caretaker manager, in which he was undefeated but only enjoyed two victories, Southgate was still expressing doubts about whether he wanted the job.
With just one unsuccessful tournament with the under-21s and a relegation with Middlesbrough under his belt Southgate still saw himself as very much a rookie manager, and was only persuaded to become England boss following a thorough charm offensive by Glenn and Dan Ashworth, then the FA’s director of elite development.
The FA now find themselves in a similar position with Lee Carsley, who is also unsure whether he wants the England job full-time after four games as a caretaker, although there is no gurantee they will get the same outcome.
In some respects Carsley is more qualified for the role than Southgate was at the same stage as he has already shown his tournament credentials by winning last year’s under-21 Euros, while he has also been allowed to appoint his own coaching staff, with his long-term assistant Ashley Cole being given a permanent contract by the FA last month.
Carsley made his misgivings about the job known to his associates long before his bold team selection against Greece backfired spectacularly last week, so it is inconceivable that that the FA were not aware of them. The FA’s sporting director John McDermott has been an almost constant presence by his side since Carsley was made interim manager in August, attending most of his press conferences and even donning a tracksuit to work with him in setting up exercises on the training pitch.
The great unknown is whether McDermott and FA chief executive Mark Bullingham are working hard on Carsley to persuade him to take the job, or if they have someone else lined up. The pair do not appear to have been overly active, as even out-of-work managers such as Graham Potter and Thomas Tuchel have not been approached, never mind those in jobs whose appointment would be more problematic, like Newcastle’s Eddie Howe.
John McDermott (right) faces the biggest decision of his career in who should replace Gareth Southgate (Photo: Getty)
McDermott and Bullingham have not done anything in their careers as significant in football terms as appointing the England manager, while the former is in his first job as a sporting director, albeit having enjoyed success in a different role at Tottenham as academy director. Given this inexperience the size and scale of the decision in front of them cannot be overstated.
It is clear that the FA would like to appoint Carsley, not least as it would save the governing body huge amounts of money, time and potential aggravation from clubs, but he also ticks a huge number of boxes for them.
As a former England under-20 and current under-21 manager he is product of the FA’s coaching pathway at St George’s Park, an inspiration to other homegrown coaches, and even if reluctantly has already shown he can be an impressive spokesperson for the game.
Carsley’s own intentions are far harder to deduce, as he gives little away, and many of his public statements, including after Sunday’s win over Finland, have been riddled with contradictions. Even those who know him well and have worked with him are uncertain what he will do next.
While Carsley has described himself as a development coach and not “world-class” over the last few days, the 50-year-old has undoubtedly had managerial aspirations in the past. At the start of this year the Football Association of Ireland were convinced he was going to become their new manager, with Carsley actively involved in a process that went as far as discussing his salary expectations.
Carsley ended up staying with England under-21’s however, a shrewd decision which has handed him an even bigger dilemma, so despite appearing to know his own mind major U-turns are not unknown to him. As Southgate would confirm, there is a big difference between expressing doubts over taking the England job, and walking away when you are presented with a contract.
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Finland 1-3 England (Hoskonen 87′ | Grealish 18′, Alexander-Arnold 74′, Rice 84′)
HELSINKI — This had the feel of an FA Cup third round tie, where a Premier League team is parachuted into the game’s nether regions and proceeds to prance about the place.
Thus could England do almost what they wanted, which meant a lot of balls pinged about the park but without really going anywhere until Finland ran out of gas.
Yes there were three goals, two fabulous, but in the context of a mismatch of a contest it all felt a bit so-what.
“We see it in training all the time” is the standard refrain when players bring to the pitch a bit of training ground magic.
Jack Grealish put the cherry on a cute pass from Angel Gomes, England’s outstanding player alongside Marc Guehi.
Trent Alexander-Arnold bent one like Alexander-Arnold and Declan Rice helped himself to the third.
What this told us of Lee Carsley’s prospects is impossible to know. Gomes apart, Gareth Southgate could have picked this team. For England the intensity was barely above practice levels.
That’s not their fault. The Nations League does not begin to scratch the surface of the meaning and significance of big club engagements, or of major international tournaments.
Finland were up for it, however, and might have been level early in the second half when Fredrik Jensen whacked one over the bar from under the posts. They had their moments in the first half too, but only as a result of rare English errors.
Poor balls from Gomes, John Stones and Kyle Walker all led to shots at goal. The other joy found by the Finns was down England’s left flank, targeting the space behind the latest temporary left-back, Trent Alexander-Arnold. And this being Alexander-Arnold, there was always space to be had.
The Finns have never beaten England, yet for the 30,000 in this marvellous chunk of post-war minimalist concrete it felt like they had when they registered the final goal of the night. Before that it seemed like most of the locals had come to watch the English superstars. Jude Bellingham took most of the attention, his name echoing about the stands at the final whistle in the vague hope he might pose for a selfie or at least give a wave.
The only real mystery for England was the isolation of Cole Palmer, whose lonely vigil on the right wing lasted until the Carsley hook in the second half. The inclination was to feed Grealish on the left, which was fine because the Manchester City winger was full of it and linked well with Gomes and Bellingham.
That apart the balance of the team was much improved, benefitting from the central spine of Rice, Gomes and Bellingham, and a fulcrum at nine in the shape of returning skipper Harry Kane. Carsley did the decent thing, removing Palmer in the final quarter, as well as Kane, giving Noni Madueke and Ollie Watkins 20 minutes to put some air in their lungs.
Carsley moved about his people at the final whistle shaking the hands of the players and falling into a bear-hug of an embrace from Bellingham.
Was there in that a moment a hint of permanence in their relationship? While Carsley maintains his neutrality we are left to guess. At the same time you wonder what difference it would make since, as Carsley maintains, almost any coach of note ought to make this group into winners.
Carsley has one more window to fulfil his obligation as caretaker. His relationship with the players is more fraternal than avuncular. It feels almost as if he were one of them. Bellingham clearly loves him, Grealish too, a Brummie brotherhood at the heart of England.
Finland coach Markku Kanerva felt his team improved since the Wembley defeat last month but acknowledged the quality of the opposition was just too great. England were certainly better than their last outing at Wembley three days ago. Had Carsley followed the Greek defeat with another here there would have been few questions about his prospects of claiming the role permanently.
He made a sensible, balanced selection here that delivered some solid individual displays and a bread-and-butter result. That was the minimum requirement after the misstep against Greece.
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And while there are still a few issues that need to be ironed out, it looked like it paid off for the most part.
England did not fully convince against Finland but leave the capital as 3-1 winners thanks to Jack Grealish’s cool first-half strike, Trent Alexander-Arnold’s free-kick and Declan Rice’s near-post finish.
Below is how we rated the England players out of 10:
Dean Henderson – 6/10
Made a couple of fine saves when called upon on his first senior start for his country.
Kyle Walker – 6/10
Looked to push forward as often as possible but beaten too easily on the break. Never at his best.
Marc Guehi – 7/10
A composed outing from the centre-back, who put in another mature performance. Reads the game so well. Knows exactly when to stick his foot in at the right moment.
John Stones – 7/10
Steady influence at the back. A brilliant block after Gomes gave the ball away showed his class.
Trent Alexander-Arnold – 8/10
Despite being played out of position, looked relatively comfortable at left-back, and scored an exceptional direct free-kick.
Angel Gomes – 7/10
A lovely outside of the boot assist for Grealish made up for gifting Finland possession in a dangerous position in the first half.
Declan Rice – 7/10
Made a couple of those trademark runs that he typically so often makes for Arsenal. Scored England’s third goal from close range to kill the game off.
Cole Palmer – 6/10
Frustrating afternoon. Impressed with some nice passes but influence waned as the match wore on. Replaced by Chelsea teammate Noni Madueke.
Jude Bellingham – 7/10
In and out of the game, though not for want of trying. Looked to stretch the backline every time he got the ball.
Jack Grealish – 8/10
Marked his return to the team with the opening goal in the 18th minute, celebrating the recent birth of his first child by sucking his thumb, and was regularly involved.
Harry Kane – 6/10
Still not at his match-fit best. Perhaps unsurprising given his lack of minutes. Subbed off for Ollie Watkins on 69 minutes.
Substitutes
Ollie Watkins (on for Kane, 69): Made England’s third goal with a fine run down the left. 6/10
Noni Madueke (on for Palmer, 69): Immediately offered more than Palmer with a darting run down the right and looked dangerous. 7/10
Phil Foden (on for Bellingham, 80): N/A
Rico Lewis (on for Alexander-Arnold, 80): N/A
Conor Gallagher (on for Rice, 85): N/A
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