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England
Squad |
Type |
Iceland Squad |
Referee
(yellow) Fábio Veríssimo
37 (26 December 1982), Peniche, FIFA-listed 2015 |
17 |
Goal Attempts |
2 |
10 |
Attempts on Target |
0 |
Assistant Referees |
0 |
Hit Bar/Post |
0 |
Luis Campos |
Rui Teixeira 39 (23 August 1981) |
8 |
Corner Kicks Won |
2 |
Fourth official
António
Emanuel Carvalho Nobre
32 (24 November 1988),
Caldas da Rainha, FIFA-listed 2019.
UEFA Referee Observer - Ichko Lozev, Bulgaria UEFA
Delegate - Borja Bilbao, Spain |
3 |
Offside Calls Against |
1 |
14 |
Fouls Conceded |
17 |
77% |
Possession |
23% |
|
|
England
Team |
|
Rank |
FIFA (22nd
October 2020)
4th
EFO ranking
Group One (3rd)
ELO rating 11th |
Colours |
The Nike 2020 home jersey -
White crew-necked jerseys
with navy blue collar and side trim,
white shorts with dark blue side stripe, white socks. |
Captain |
Harry Kane
|
Manager |
Gareth Southgate, 50 (3 September 1970), appointed caretaker manager on 27 September 2016, appointed as permanent manager on 30 November
2016.
|
²⁵
most goals as captain |
29th of 72, W 17 - D 5 - L 7 - F 68 - A 27. |
|
Eric Dier 75:17 |
P 49th of 102, W 28 - D 10 - L 10 - F
100 - A 37. |
England
Lineup |
|
|
three changes to the previous match (Mings, Henderson
& Chilwell out) |
league position
(5th November) - 7 games played |
|
|
1 |
Pickford, Jordan L. |
26 256 days |
7 March 1994 |
G |
Everton FC
(PL 4th) |
30 |
27ᵍᵃ |
the 123rd/124th players to reach
the 30-app
milestone |
2 |
Walker, Kyle
A., off 64th min. |
30 174 days |
28 May 1990 |
RD
|
Manchester City FC
(PL 10th)
|
53
|
0
|
|
12th min. after his challenge
on
Rúnar Már Sigurjónsson. |
4 |
Dier, Eric J.E. |
26 308 days |
15 January 1994 |
CD |
Tottenham Hotspur FC
(PL 3rd) |
45 |
3 |
5 |
Maguire, J. Harry |
27 258 days |
5 March 1993 |
LD |
Manchester United FC
(PL 15th) |
30 |
2 |
the 123rd/124th players to reach
the 30-app
milestone |
3 |
Trippier, Kieran J., off 85th min. |
30 60 days |
19 September 1990 |
RWB |
Club Atlético de Madrid, Spain |
25 |
1 |
7
|
Mount, Mason T., off 64th min. |
21 313 days |
10 January 1999 |
RM |
Chelsea FC (PL
7th) |
13 |
3 |
8
|
Rice, Declan |
21 309 days |
14 January 1999 |
LM |
West Ham United FC
(PL 14th) |
13 |
1 |
20 |
Saka, Bukayo A.T. |
19 74 days |
5 September 2001 |
LWB |
Arsenal FC
(PL 9th) |
4 |
0 |
19
|
Foden, Philip W. |
20 174 days |
28 May 2000 |
RAM |
Manchester City FC
(PL 10th) |
3 |
2 |
the 362nd
(229th post-war)
brace scored |
youngest brace at Wembley |
9
|
Kane, Harry E., off 76th min. |
27 113 days |
28 July 1993 |
CF |
Tottenham Hotspur FC
(PL 3rd) |
51 |
32 |
16 |
Grealish, Jack P., off 76th min. |
25 69 days |
10 September 1995 |
LAM |
Aston Villa FC
(PL 8th) |
5 |
0 |
England
Substitutes |
scoreline:
England 2 Iceland 0 |
12 |
Mings, Tyrone D.,
on 64th min. (63:18) for Walker |
27 250 days |
13 March 1993 |
LD |
Aston Villa FC
(PL 8th) |
7 |
4 |
0 |
3 |
14
|
Winks, Harry
B., on 64th min. (63:34) for
Mount |
24 290 days |
2 February 1996 |
R/CM |
Tottenham Hotspur FC
(PL 3rd) |
10 |
8 |
1 |
2 |
final app
2017-20 |
11
|
Sancho, Jadon M., on 76th min.
(75:16) for Grealish |
20 238 days |
25 March 2000 |
LM |
Bsv Borussia 09 Dortmund, Germany |
18 |
9 |
3 |
9 |
21 |
Bakumo-Abraham, K.O. Tamaraebi,
on 76th min. (75:23) for Kane |
23 47 days |
2 October 1997
|
CF
|
Chelsea FC
(PL 7th) |
6 |
1 |
1
|
5 |
Chelsea's 100th substitute for England |
scoreline:
England 4 Iceland 0 |
17 |
Maitland-Niles, Ainsley C.,
on 85th min (84:30) for Trippier |
23
81 days |
29 August 1997 |
CD |
Arsenal FC
(PL 9th) |
5 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
final app
2020 |
result:
England 4 Iceland 0 |
unused
substitutes: (5 permitted
for the November round of fixtures) |
6-Michael Keane, 13-Nick Pope, 15-Ben
Chilwell, 18-Dominic
Calvert-Lewin, 22-Dean Henderson, 23-Jude
Bellingham. |
team
notes: |
Jordan Pickford and
Harry Kane remain the only players to have
played in
all of England's Nations League matches, with Pickford starting
them all. Jack Grealish's great great
grandfather,
Billy Garraty, also played for
England in 1903. |
records: |
It is now 600 matches since England won the World Cup Final in 1966.
The
200th clean sheet in the 449 matches on English soil.
This is England's tenth match on this date,
winning all ten.
Declan
Rice's goal was the 200th England goal in the month of November.
After
111 matches in November, this is the first time three of them have
come in one year.
Phil Foden becomes the youngest player to have scored two goals in a
match at
Wembley, taking 34 days off the record set by
Bobby Charlton in 1958. |
|
3-4-3 |
Pickford - Walker (Mings), Dier, Maguire - Trippier
(Maitland-Niles), Mount (Winks),
Rice, Saka - Foden, Kane (Abraham), Grealish
(Sancho) |
Averages (Starting XI): |
Age |
25 years 93
days |
Appearances/Goals |
24.7 |
3.6 |
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Iceland
Team |
|
Rank |
FIFA (22
October 2020) 40th
EFO ranking
n/a
ELO rating
tbc |
Colours |
Made by Puma - Electric blue lemonade v-necked jerseys with
darker blue shadowed boxes and red random vertical lines, true blue
shorts, electric blue socks. |
Captain |
Kári Árnason |
Manager |
Erik Anders Hamrén, 63 (27 June 1957 in
Ljusdal, Sweden), appointed 8 August 2018.
|
Final Match in charge P 28 - W 9 - D 5 - L 14 - F 29 - A 50. |
Iceland
Lineup |
12 |
Kristinsson, Ögmundur, off half time |
31 152 days |
19 June 1989 |
G |
Olympiakás Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós, Greece |
17 |
?ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Sævarsson, Birkir Már |
36
7 days |
11 November 1984 |
RB
|
Knattspyrnufélagið Valur
|
95
|
2
|
23rd expulsion
vs. England |
|
11th min. following a late kick on Bukayo Saka. |
53rd min. for another foul on Saka,
as he tugged him running into the area. |
|
|
5 |
Ingason, Sverrir Ingi |
27 105 days |
5 August 1993 |
RCD
|
Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinopolitón,
Greece
|
36
|
3
|
|
49th min. for a foul on Jack Grealish |
14 |
Árnason, Kári |
38 36 days |
13 October 1982
in Göteburg, Sweden |
CD |
Knattspyrnufélagið Víngur
|
87
|
6
|
|
72nd min. for his
challenge on Jack Grealish, catching him on legs. |
15 |
Hermannsson, Hjörtur |
25 284 days |
8 February 1995 |
LCD |
Brøndbyernes If, Denmark |
18 |
1 |
23 |
Skúlason, Ari F. |
33 188 days |
14 May 1987 |
LB |
KV Oostende, Belgium |
77 |
0 |
4 |
Pálsson, G. Victor |
29 202 days |
30 April 1991 |
RM |
Sv Darmstadt 1898, Germany |
23 |
0 |
8 |
Bjarnason, Birkir, off 88th min. |
32 175 days |
27 May 1988 |
CM |
Brescia Calcio, Italy |
92 |
13 |
16 |
Sigurjónsson, Rúnar Már
S., off 62nd min. |
30 153 days |
18 June 1990 |
LM |
Astana FK, Kazakhstan |
30 |
1 |
22 |
Böðvarsson, Jón Daði, off 73rd min. |
28 177 days |
25 May 1992 |
RF |
Millwall FC, England |
55 |
3 |
20 |
Guðmundsson, Albert, off 73rd min. |
23 156 days |
15 June 1997 |
LF |
Alkmaar Zaanstreek, Netherlands |
18 |
3 |
Iceland
Substitutes |
scoreline:
England 2 Iceland 0 |
1 |
Halldórsson, Hannes Þór,
on half time for Kristinsson |
36 205 days |
27 April 1984 |
G |
Knattspyrnufélagið Valur |
74 |
?ᵍᵃ |
3 |
Eyjólfsson, Hólmar Örn, on 62nd min
(61:45) for Sigurjónsson |
30 104 days |
6 August 1990 |
LD |
PFC Levski Sofia,
Bulgaria |
19 |
2 |
9 |
Sigþórsson, Kolbeinn, on 73rd min
(72:17) for Böðvarsson |
30 249 days |
14 March 1990 |
RF |
Allmänna Ik, Sweden |
60 |
26 |
10 |
Þorsteinsson, Jón Dagur, on 73rd min.
(72:22) for Guðmundsson |
21 358 days |
26 November 1998 |
LM |
Aarhus Gymnastikforening, Denmark |
6 |
1 |
scoreline:
England 4 Iceland 0 |
7 |
Jóhannesson, Ísak Bergmann, on 88th min.
(87:44) for Bjarnason |
17 240 days |
23 March 2003
in Sutton Coldfield,
England |
CM |
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, Denmark |
1 |
0 |
result:
England 4 Iceland 0 |
unused
substitutes: |
6-Alfons Sampsted, 11-Andri Baldursson, 13-Rünar Alex Rünarsson,
19-Sveinn Aron Gudðohnsen, 21-Arnór Sigurðsson. |
team
notes: |
Substitutes Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen is the
son of Eiður Guðjohnsen, and Ísak Jóhannesson's
father is Joey Jóhannesson. Both played for
Iceland against England in June 2004. |
records: |
Iceland have lost all ten of their Nations League matches in this
campaign. |
manager
Erik Hamrén was in charge of Sweden in their matches against England on
15 November 2011,
15 June 2012
and
14 November 2012. |
|
5-3-2 |
Kristinnson (Halldórsson) -
Sævarsson, Ingasson, Árnason, Hermannsson, Skúlason
- Pálsson, Bjarnason (Jóhannesson), Sigurjónsson
(Eyjólfsson) -
Böðvarsson
(Sigþórsson), Guðmundsson
(Þorsteinsson). |
Averages (Starting XI): |
Age |
31
years 104 days |
Appearances/Goals |
49.8 |
2.9 |
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Match Report
by Mike Payne |
As part of the
Nations Cup this game at Wembley between England and Iceland had no extra
significance for either side, but it did give England a chance to finish
the group on a high, and an opportunity for players to impress the
manager.
And by and large, they did just that.
Jack Grealish picked
up straight away from where he left off in Belgium, and it was he that
gave Mason Mount an early chance. Mount’s shot was blocked but it was
obvious from the start that England would have lots of possession and be
on the front foot for most of the time. After Jordan Pickford punched away a
cross, Grealish combined with Mount and Bukayo Saka in a good move, only
ended by a linesman’s flag. Kyle Walker had been sent off in the
earlier match in Iceland, and in the 12th minute of this game he was in trouble again, picking up a booking for a
soft challenge. The match was quite sedate, with not
much happening as 15 minutes on the clock ticked by. It quite obviously needed a goal to
liven things up.
After 20 minutes England duly opened the
scoring following a free-kick. Grealish was fouled, as he often is, and the kick beautifully
flighted in from Phil Foden was met by Declan Rice and the West Ham player
showed his obvious delight in notching a good goal with a glancing header. Afterwards he said that it had come off his shoulder, and there was
a case for offside had VAR been in use, but Rice certainly didn’t care too
much about any of that as he had just scored his first goal for England in
a moment he won’t forget in a hurry.
Now we’re talking as England
step up a gear! The home side pushed forward and immediately it was almost a second for England.
More good play from Grealish saw him cut the ball to Saka, who
slightly miscued his close range shot and saw goalkeeper Ogmundur
Kristinsson claw the ball away with a strong right hand. It was a fine save, but almost immediately, it really was 2-0.
In the 24th minute Saka, looking very accomplished down
the left, sent over a fabulous cross. It eluded Harry Kane, twice, but then ran free to Mount, who
controlled the ball cleverly with his body before poking home a left-foot
shot into the corner.
On the half-hour a marauding run down the left by Harry Maguire was spotted by Kane whose pass was a good one.
After he picked up possession Maguire saw Foden in the clear on the
right. A fine pass from Maguire set him up but once again the goalkeeper saved the day for the
bewildered Iceland players. Four minutes later and Foden has another free run at goal and he let fly
from 20 yards. This time Kristinsson dived full length to fingertip the goalbound shot round the
post for a corner. England were well on top at this stage. Kane, without an England goal this year, did
everything in his
power to score on this night, continually putting in goal attempts. In the 37th minute a dribble and shot saw him pull the
ball just wide and that was immediately followed by a curler that also
drifted the wrong side of the post.
That was the last real action
of the first-half and after the break Iceland changed their keeper, with
the impressive Kristinsson going off to be replaced by Hannes Halldorsson. (They do like long names in Iceland!)
Iceland were the first to show after the break with a rare attack
that forced Eric Dier into a hurried clearance.
The visitor’s task became even harder though after 54 minutes gone.
Birkir Mar Saevarsson, who had already been booked earlier in the
game, was penalised again for pulling back Saka as the full-back went past
him onto another Kane pass.
The referee deemed it another yellow card offence and out came the red
card as well! Ironically, on the hour, the ten men almost pulled a goal back when Kari Arnason headed
wide at the near post when he really ought to have scored.
Kane continued with his one-man mission to score a goal, with a shot that was
blocked by a defender. He also tried with a free-kick, but that struck the defensive wall.
He had played so well and kept pressing for the goal he craved but
it was not his night. After the free-kick miss he was substituted as he and Grealish went off to be
replaced by Jadon Sancho and Tammy Abraham.
England had just previously brought on Tyrone Mings and Harry Winks
for Walker and Mount. The half had been a little muted, but in the 80th minute it all burst
into life again.
A fabulous move down the left involving Sancho and
Saka ended with the former teeing up Foden who stroked home an excellent
finish with his educated left-foot. And that wasn’t the end of Foden’s impressive night as five minutes
later he received a pass from Winks, took a couple of strides and fired in
a superb ground shot that flew past the keeper for number four. And with that goal Foden became the youngest England player to
score two goals in a match at Wembley.
A good win for England, as they outclassed the Icelanders.
This current crop of England players really do look good at times,
and if manager Gareth Southgate can sort his best eleven and his best
formation, then who knows what they might achieve.
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Source Notes |
TheFA.com
BBC Sport KSI.is |
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UEFA.com Mike Payne - football historian and contributor |
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