England stay prime of Group B, their destiny totally of their palms, however a number of the buoyancy that greeted their opening win has been misplaced after a 0-0 draw with the USA the place Gareth Southgate’s facet have been at finest solely the equal of their opponents. Mason Mount and Harry Kane spurned what few possibilities got here the Three Lions’ approach while Harry Maguire and John Stones have been far busier than they may have hoped. Right here is how we rated the person performers on the Al Bayt Stadium.
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(GK) Jordan Pickford |
90 |
Most notable for the bellowing he was directing at his teammates. For all of the strain that was positioned on the England penalty space, he didn’t have a save to make bar one snug effort from Yunus Musah. |
5 |
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(DEF) Kieran Trippier |
90 |
Christian Pulisic had loads of pleasure driving infield at Trippier, who appeared greatly surprised by how a lot licencs the American No.10 needed to carry the ball. No much less regarding was how the Newcastle fullback appeared to get in Saka’s approach, blockading attacking lanes no much less successfully than the American protection. |
5 |
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(DEF) John Stones |
90 |
One of many few gamers in white who didn’t have his nation pulling out their hair in frustration. He was composure personified underneath the American press even when he was clearly enraged by the dearth of choices forward of him. |
7 |
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(DEF) Harry Maguire |
90 |
Certainly one of Maguire’s nice strengths is meant to be his capability to progress the ball out of protection, however too usually when US strain got here he would merely give the ball again to Stones. He did, nevertheless, excel when England have been defending set items. |
6 |
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(DEF) Luke Shaw |
90 |
Within the ultimate third Shaw seemed like an actual menace, teeing up Bukayo Saka for one in every of England’s finest possibilities of the match. However in his personal half he usually appeared to be one of the weak to American strain. |
5 |
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(MID) Declan Rice |
90 |
Led the sport in interceptions and was an important part in England staving off the waves of US strain that got here to their field. He noticed loads of the ball however for varied causes, some inside his management, his passing was too sideways. It might have helped if crew mates have been shifting to the ball however he didn’t convey the zip England wanted. |
6 |
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(MID) Jude Bellingham |
67 |
The US midfield carried out exceptionally to maintain Bellingham off the ball from the outset, limiting him to round two-thirds of the touches Rice had within the first half. Every time he tried to show it was into an American opponent and so it was maybe no shock that he was withdrawn for the steadying presence of Jordan Henderson. |
5 |
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(MID) Mason Mount |
90 |
After a formidable show towards Iran flew underneath the radar, Mount was seen for all of the fallacious causes within the first half. His passing was free however his urgent was all of the extra disappointing, leaving too many gaps for Tyler Adams to drive by way of. It appeared perverse that Southgate persevered with him for thus lengthy. |
4 |
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(FWD) Bukayo Saka |
77 |
In his breakout World Cup debut the ball had caught to Saka’s ft like glue, on Friday all too a lot of his touches invited a US defender to steal the ball away. It’s value noting that a variety of the Arsenal man’s difficulties got here from an excellent show by Antonee Robinson. |
5 |
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(FWD) Harry Kane |
90 |
When England broke the traces within the first half it was usually all the way down to the spectacular maintain up play of their No.9. However this developed into a type of video games the place an more and more drained wanting Kane roved too far into midfield. A free header in added time fairly typified a troublesome match for the captain. |
5 |
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(FWD) Raheem Sterling |
67 |
All too simply bypassed with out the ball, Sterling provided treasured little to England on it too. Certainly he ended the match with no photographs, no possibilities created and no take ons even tried. |
4 |
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Jordan Henderson |
Bellingham, 68′ |
You’ll have executed properly to note a lot of what the Liverpool captain did when he got here on, nevertheless it was notable that the US didn’t have the driving lanes they’d earlier than his introduction. |
5 |
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Jack Grealish |
Sterling, 68′ |
His introduction introduced an instantaneous impression as Grealish seemed to commit a number of defenders. He appears to go well with the impression substitute function that he has been deployed in at Euro 2020 and this World Cup. |
6 |
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Marcus Rashford |
Saka, 78′ |
Rashford made all the appropriate runs however by the point he entered the fray the match was really fizzling out in direction of a draw. |
5 |
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Gareth Southgate |
3 |
Right here was a recreation that reminded you of the deficiencies of England’s most profitable supervisor in a technology. Within the mid stage of the second half,, the match was clearly slipping away from his facet however he allowed the scenario to slip and was fortunate Maguire made so many telling clearances from US set items. |
4 |
