England beat Scotland the oldest national team match in history, celebrated its 150th anniversary on Tuesday, and did so with a goal from Jude Bellingham, who maintained the scoring instinct he showed at the start of the season with Real Madrid.
The purposes of Phil Foden, Harry Kane and Bellignham, who also provided assistance, decided on a friendly rivalry, although it was only a few, between the two teams that remembered the most frequent and longest match of the national team, the one that was played for the first time in 1862 in a close. cricket field and that He became 150 years old and had 116 encounters.
At Hampden Park, with a Scottish majority, the whistle for the English anthem was the order of the day, like ironic oles to Harry Maguire and the tradition of these matches: let Scotland lose.
Since the Scots have not won this derby since 1999 and have to continue waiting after their good work in the qualifying phase for the Euro Cup, where they have five wins in five games, did not translate into a rivalry that the Scottish coach Steve Clarke, described as a measure of how selection is made.
The truth was that Scotland were still inferior to the English, who dominated almost the whole match and as soon as they got back at the Scots kicks, the goals started to fall.
Foden, after a play started by Bellingham in the crescent area, scored first by deflecting a shot from Walker. The City midfielder read the play perfectly and put his foot in to make it 0-1.
A few minutes later, Bellingham took advantage of a tantalizing gift from Andy Robertson inside the area to score his second goal in a ‘Three Lions’ shirt and continue his fine scoring streak.
With the score 0-2 at half-time, England relaxed, brought on Maguire and with a lateral cross from Robertson, the Manchester United defender deflected the ball into his own goal. A new dose of bad luck for the English.
Scotland had their best minute there and a header from John McGinn was misdirected to equalise. When, spurred on by their fans, the locals thought they would be pushing for 20 minutes and looking for at least a tie, Eberechi Eze panicked, missed a one-on-one, and was adjudged by Harry Kane.
The Tottenham Hotspur striker was left alone in front of the goalkeeper after a pass from Bellingham and sealed the game.
1-3 and the Scots will have to continue searching for the long-awaited victory against their neighbours. It’s been 24 years since the last one.
Data sheet:
Scotland: Gunn; Hickey (Petterson, d.89), Porteous, Hendry, Tierney (Armstrong, d.82), Robertson; McTominay, Gilmour (Dykes, m.60), McGregor (Jack, m.89), McGinn (Ferguson, m.82); and Adams (Christie, d.59).
England: Ramsdale; Walker, Dunk, Guehi (Maguire, m.46), Trippier; Phillips, Rice, Bellingham (Gallagher, m.84; Foden (Saka, m.71), Rashford (Eze, m.71) and Kane (Wilson, m.84).
Goals: 0-1. Foden, m.32, 0-2. Bellingham, m.35, 1-2. Maguire, pp, m.67 and 1-3. Kane, m.81.
Referee: Davide Massa warns Hendry (m.42) for Scotland and Phillips (m.41) and Bellingham (m.42) for England.
Incidents: Friendly match played at Hampden Park (Glasgow) where the 150th anniversary of the first match between these two teams was commemorated, which is considered the oldest meeting between the two countries.
Source: La Verdad
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