England managed to safe a win in one among their two warm-up matches earlier than departing for Germany and Euro 2024.
Nonetheless, it was not a whole efficiency and Gareth Southgate took the chance to check out a few of the members of his squad he won’t have seen plenty of.
Cole Palmer broke the impasse from the penalty spot earlier than Trent Alexander-Arnold doubled the house aspect’s benefit with a well-timed volley. Late within the match, Harry Kane, who began on the bench, was in the proper place to faucet house England’s third of the night time.
Jarrad Branthwaite and Adam Wharton have been handed their worldwide debuts as England returned to St James’ Park for the primary time since 2005.
Right here’s how the gamers rated on the night time
Jordan Pickford, 6
Primarily untested all through the whole match as Bosnia had little or no to supply going ahead.
Ezri Konsa, 5
The Aston Villa defender denied Jarrod Bowen a primary England aim by blocking his teammate’s shot on the road, and in any other case didn’t have rather a lot to do to impression the match.
Kieran Trippier, 7
With the captain’s armband at his house floor of St James’ Park, Trippier tried to get ahead and create possibilities, however he was not usually on the identical wavelength as Ollie Watkins enjoying forward of him.
Conor Gallagher, 6
The Chelsea participant had plenty of vitality in England’s midfield, however struggled to hyperlink up with the ahead gamers, and didn’t maintain again when throwing himself into challenges to attempt to create one thing out of nothing.
Lewis Dunk, 5
Dunk didn’t have rather a lot to do on the coronary heart of England’s defence as Bosnia weren’t significantly threatening going forwards.
Marc Guehi, 5
Seemed a bit nervous and was proven a yellow card in a pleasant for a sub-par problem, and in any other case didn’t have a busy sport.
Jarrod Bowen, 6
Bowen was given longer by Southgate than a few of the others to attempt to impression the sport, and had a well-timed ball throughout the field, however nobody was capable of get on the tip of it. He had a header blocked by a defender.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, 8
Carrying an uncharacteristic quantity eight on the again of his shirt, he performed some intelligent passes by the center, and received England a few corners. He supplied an awesome move to virtually play in Grealish in a harmful place. Hit a well-timed volley for England’s second aim.
Ollie Watkins, 6
Had 3 touches within the first 36 minutes and didn’t have a big risk going forwards, however held the ball up and triggered the defenders some issues together with his motion.
Cole Palmer, 7
Seemed a brilliant spark from the outset, and performed a pleasant ball by to Watkins who managed to squeeze a shot from a decent angle. Scored England’s penalty within the second half, simply placing the ball beneath the goalkeeper to present the house aspect the lead.
Eberechi Eze, 7
Eze was one of many foremost brilliant sparks within the match. He made a robust highly effective run between the traces and triggered issues for defenders, his motion and tempo triggered a lot of issues earlier than he was substituted on the hour mark for Jack Grealish.
Harry Kane, 7
Kane took over the captain’s armband from Trippier when he was introduced on and seemed to assault the aim as quickly as he did. Scored England’s third aim of the night.
Adam Wharton, 6
He was rewarded with a maiden England cap and got here on within the second half with quite a few different substitutions, seemed tidy however didn’t have adequate alternative to impression the match.
Jarrad Branthwaite, 6
Branthwaite was England’s different debutant at St James’ Park, and the Everton participant didn’t have sufficient time impression the sport however he performed some intelligent passes.
James Maddison, 6
As quickly as he was introduced on, Maddison took over taking free kicks and corners and tried to impression the sport together with his extra vitality and motion.
Jack Grealish, 7
Grealish managed to get on the tip of a well-struck ball from Alexander-Arnold and tried to play in Maddison however the ball wasn’t fairly there for him. He additionally performed within the Liverpool man for England’s second aim, which was the very best of the night.
Joe Gomez, 6
Gomez got here on in the direction of the tip of the match and didn’t have sufficient time to impression the sport, whereas the Bosnia assaults weren’t threatening.
