North Macedonia 1-1 England: Rating the players as Three Lions complete an unbeaten 2023
England finish 2023 unbeaten after a low-key but undeniably frustrating 1-1 draw in North Macedonia featuring an encouraging Rico Lewis debut.
England Player Ratings
England 2-1 Switzerland: Rating Southgate’s experimental friendly team
England weren’t at their best against Switzerland, but this was an evening of experimentation for Gareth Southgate.
England 1-0 Austria: Rating the Euro 2020 hopeful players
Grealish, Saka and Bellingham get a big old lovely tick. Coady and Mings should never be partnered together again.
Kosovo 0-4 England: Rating the players
How did Raheem Sterling perform after a strange week? Could Harry Kane build on his hat-trick against Montenegro?
England 7-0 Montenegro: Rating the Euro 2020 finalists
That was all rather easy but there were still two starters who might reflect on England’s big win with some regret…
Bulgaria 0-6 England: Rating the players
England went back to basics and a formation they know works. Everybody benefitted…
Rating England’s players in ridiculous 5-3 win
From the terrible centre-halves, through the patchy midfield to the excellent forwards…
Montenegro 1-5 England: Rating the players
Engand scored five again, with Barkley and Sterling most impressive. Again. Happy days…
England 3-0 USA: Rating the players
It was a decent night for Sancho, Alexander-Arnold and Wilson. We’re still waiting for Winks, though…
Croatia 0-0 England: Rating the players
There were positives but there are few for Harry Kane, Ross Barkley and Marcus Rashford…
Sweden 0-2 England – Rating the players
Arise, Sir Jacob Harry Maguire! And though England dominated, Jordan Pickford had to be brilliant…
England 0-1 Belgium: Rating the players
None of England’s regulars will be too concerned for their places, except one of the three who started in Kaliningrad…
England’s World Cup opener: Rating the players
Kieran Tripper was the pick of the punch but we also loved John Stones and Jordan Henderson…
England 2-1 Nigeria: Rating the players
Let’s face it, everybody was brilliant in the first half. And then really not so much…
Lithuania 0-1 England: Rating the players
It’s difficult to do ratings on a game when nobody seemed to care. But Winks was good…
England 1-0 Slovenia: The player ratings
When Joe Hart is Man of the Match, there isn’t a whole lot to be positive about. Woe is us…
How England’s players rated v France…
Badly. Very badly. But more specifically, who was worse out of Ox and Dier? We can’t split them…
Judging England’s players v Scotland
They were pretty sodding awful but Dier, Alli and Rashford were more awful than most…
Rating the players: Germany 1-0 England
Really positive from Dele Alli and Adam Lallana, but were Germany really arsed? And those chants…
England 3-0 Scotland: Rating the players
As simple as attack good, defence bad? Well yeah, actually. And well done Adam Lallana…
England v Malta: The player ratings
At last, we saw a fine England performance from Jordan Henderson. Midfielders are better in midfield!
Slovakia 0-1 England: Rating the players
Praise for Adam Lallana but harsh words for Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane…
England vs Germany: How did they do?
We’re not getting carried away, but Dele Alli is England’s little star. Poor Wayne Rooney, watching on.