The late equaliser helps, but even without Jude Bellingham's latest hero act there would have been plenty for England to take from the Belgium game.
England would have taken a fair bit from an entertaining and, by friendly standards, pleasingly niggly evening against Belgium even without Jude Bellingham’s energising late equaliser. Some of the attacking football was really great to watch, while some of the defending was… well, let’s not dwell too much on the defending., this was a night when several players really made their point with the European Championships now just around the corner.
If England emerge from this international break with absolutely nothing other than the knowledge Mainoo is better than Gallagher or Phillips or Henderson or anyone else who might go in there, then it will still have been worth it.Ended a slightly niggly night with a composed finish to secure England a deserved draw with the final kick of the game.
The goal was obviously welcome, but there was much more to Toney’s performance than the goal. His hold-up play was at times Kane-like, and he was able to bring the ball-players around and behind him into the game far more effectively than Watkins managed on Saturday night. The harsh reality of friendlies at this point in the calendar is that they are riddled with such intra-squad battles. Watkins did little particularly wrong, but Toney won this scrap decisively.
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