{"id":33153,"date":"2024-03-27T04:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/33153\/england-2-2-belgium-26-mar\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T04:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:22:59","slug":"england-2-2-belgium-26-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=33153","title":{"rendered":"England 2-2 Belgium (26 Mar, 2024) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

England 2-2 Belgium (26 Mar, 2024) Game Analysis\u060c<\/p>\n

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Jude Bellingham scored in stoppage time to earn an impressive England a 2-2 draw at Wembley against Belgium on Tuesday after a brace from Youri Tielemans threatened to clinch victory in an entertaining friendly .<\/p>\n

Tielemans scored in the 11th minute after a botched clearance by England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, with Ivan Toney equalizing with a penalty shortly after in his first international start.<\/p>\n

– Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, NWSL plus (United<\/a> States)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was tough for England, who looked unrecognizable in their approach compared to the team beaten by Brazil on Saturday, and they fully deserved their last-gasp equalizer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew how much crap we would get if we lost two games on the bounce,\u201d Bellingham said.<\/p>\n

We should win<\/a> with all the chances we created, but these are two games that will be very useful to us. I know people will be negative but we have to take the positive.<\/p>\n

“I'm sure the coach will be happy with the way we played. You're never happy with a defeat or a draw, but we have to be happy with the way we played.”<\/p>\n

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Jude Bellingham celebrates his final equalizer for England against Belgium.<\/figcaption>
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<\/svg>Michael Regan \u2013 The FA\/The FA via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/section>\n

One thing Southgate will not be happy with is the early withdrawal of John Stones, who suffered a groin injury and was replaced by Joe Gomez, adding to England's potential defensive problems after Kyle Walker was injured in the match against Brazil.<\/p>\n

The match between third-placed England and their fourth-placed opponents had a completely different feel to Saturday, where England barely managed a shot against Brazil and the tone was set after 20 seconds when Toney fired from a cross from Jarrod Bowen.<\/p>\n

Belgium, sporting a bizarre ensemble of light blue shirts and brown shorts against England's charcoal gray, took the lead when a poorly completed clearance from Jordan Pickford went straight to Amadou Onana<\/a>, then fell for Tielemans who caressed it into the empty net.<\/p>\n

England hit back from the penalty spot six minutes after Jan Vertonghen brought down Toney and the Brentford striker marked his first start<\/a> with his first goal via his two-stride approach.<\/p>\n

With his rivals supporting the injured Harry Kane failing to make their case, it was a huge moment for Toney and his hopes of making the Euro squad.<\/p>\n

Bowen thought he had also made his point when he nodded home from close range after a corner in the 26th minute, but the goal was ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n

England, however, were playing with an energy and dynamism that was so painfully absent on Saturday as Bowen and Bellingham both shot from good positions.<\/p>\n

But it was another mistake from centre-back Lewis Dunk \u2013 who was responsible for Brazil's winner \u2013 that allowed Belgium through again. Romelu Lukaku took the opportunity to deliver a sumptuous cross with the outside of his foot which an unmarked Tielemans responded with a diving header after 36 minutes.<\/p>\n

England continued to create chances in the second half with Toney, Bellingham and Foden going close and 18-year-old standout Kobbie Mainoo making an irresistible case for a Euro place.<\/p>\n

Belgium defended well, however, and appeared to have done enough until the hosts launched a final attack down the left with substitute James Maddison whipping in a low cross which the towering Bellingham coolly slotted in.<\/p>\n

This sent the English fans away happy, but also allowed Belgium to extend their unbeaten run to 12 games under coach Domenico Tedesco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

England 2-2 Belgium (26 Mar, 2024) Game Analysis\u060c Jude Bellingham scored in stoppage time to earn an impressive England a 2-2 draw at Wembley against Belgium on Tuesday after a brace from Youri Tielemans threatened to clinch victory in an entertaining friendly . Tielemans scored in the 11th minute after a botched clearance by England […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[727,1223,666,246,11424],"class_list":["post-33153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-analysis","tag-belgium","tag-england","tag-game","tag-mar"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33154,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions\/33154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}