Reaction as Jude Bellingham solitary strike earns three points but England far from best
Bellingham’s move map
It was an all-action show from Jude Bellingham.
But apart from his tackling and swashbuckling runs, his passing was exemplary too.
Bellingham’s stats
Here’s Jude Bellingham’s sport by numbers.
He had a stonker. What a participant.
More magic from Bellingham
With his match-winning objective this night, Jude Bellingham has turn out to be simply the second participant ever to attain at each a World Cup and a European Championship earlier than the age of 21.
In attaining the feat, the Real Madrid star joins compatriot Michael Owen who did the enterprise at each France ’98 and Euro 2000.
Bellingham additionally turns into the fifth England participant to attain his nation’s opening objective at a event after Bobby Charlton, Alan Shearer, Gary Lineker and Bryan Robson.
Kane: We stood as much as take a look at
England captain Harry Kane admitted that his workforce had been up towards it for lengthy intervals within the second half, but was happy with the resilience proven.
Addressing the win, he added that the three points will go a protracted method to guaranteeing England make it efficiently out of Group C.
We knew it was going to be a troublesome sport. Serbia pose a whole lot of threats and have some good gamers. They will make it a battle for you and I believe we handled it rather well. There was a spell within the second half the place we received camped in our field and we discovered it laborious to get out but it was an vital win tonight.
Harry Kane
Match Stats from Arena AufSchalke
England have now received the opening sport in all 4 of their main tournaments performed underneath Gareth Southgate.
They had solely recorded 5 such victories throughout their different 23 main event appearances (W5 D11 L7).
Lions leaders of the pack
There will undoubtedly be a autopsy on the efficiency forward of Thursday’s fixture with Denmark, but England are two points clear on the high of Group C.
And with 4 third-place groups progressing from the group stage, the end result may already be sufficient to land a spot within the knockout spherical of 16.
