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Wayne Rooney: Manchester United Captain Given Ultimatum By Sam Allardyce
Posted On Sep 17 2016
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Allardyce, who was managing England for the first time in the World Cup qualifier, said he “can’t stop” Rooney from dropping into midfield and the player has a “lot more experience at global football” than he does.
Meanwhile, midfielder Eric Dier says England will take some time to recover from its Euro 2016 humiliation despite getting back to winning ways in Trnava. “Why should Slovakia go there when we have England in the group?” said Durica.
“He made it clear he wanted a clean sheet and I thought we were very disciplined”.
“After the English team left, I went to my office with a bit of hope”.
For long spells, it looked as though England would not be able to force a breakthrough in their opening Group F match in Trnava despite playing the last 33 minutes against 10 men following a red card for Slovakia captain Martin Skrtel.
The ESPN FC crew evaluate England’s first match under Sam Allardyce, a 1-0 win over Slovakia in World Cup Qualifying.
But Adam Lallana finally made the breakthrough in injury time when he bundled home his first global goal to secure all three points in what was, arguably, England’s most hard qualifier.
Allardyce said he “can’t stop” Rooney from dropping into midfield and the player has a “lot more experience at global football” than he does.
“He has had it at Manchester United, under many different managers, played down the right, the left, centre forward, in behind, centre midfield”.
“Representing your country is the highest level you can reach as a professional player, walking out in an England shirt at Wembley is one of the greatest feelings as a player you can ever have”.
“I got this lucky penny off a lad today in the hotel”, he said, rolling the coin between his fingers. Thomas Mueller has regained his confidence, putting his perplexing Germany goal drought behind him by scoring twice in the 3-0 win in Norway. We [had] to push both full-backs on, we had to get the wide men coming in between the lines to break down two banks of four.
