Raheem Sterling the shining light in lacklustre England display | Barney Ronay
06-Sep-2020 19:00:31 | Guardian
The Manchester City forward has matured as an international player by doing the things he knows he is very good at
Squint a little and there was something weirdly retro about England’s victory in Iceland on Saturday night. This was a painful occasion for Gareth Southgate’s under-conditioned team, a game where the neat little touches didn’t stick, where the bounce was off, the grass unkind, the ball filled with helium, where England’s midfield seemed, somehow, to be always facing the wrong way.
As the ball was shuttled cautiously across those deep blue defensive lines, this felt a bit like watching old, analogue, square-screened England. We shall remember them (if you really insist), that version of Albion who lived in fear of foreign fields, unkind referees, the ball itself.
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