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Bellingham showed that he deserved to be in the England squad - Tuchel

England beat Serbia in their penultimate World Cup 2026 qualifier this evening after goals by Bukayo Saka and Eberechi Eze secured a 2-0 win at Wembley.

Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden started on the bench but came on in the second half as an unlikely duo, with Foden in a false nine role from which he set up Eze for the second goal which finally finished off Serbia’s challenge. Earlier Saka had steered home a controlled volley to put the hosts in front on a soaking wet night in London.

Beating Latvia in last month’s qualifiers ensured that England will finish top of Group K. Now the England boss has just two camps left before the tournament begins and he will want to determine which players are guaranteed a spot on the plane to Mexico, Canada and the United States.

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Bukayo Saka volleys away Thomas Tuchel’s criticism as England see off Serbia in World Cup qualifying

Eloquent as Thomas Tuchel is, pointed as he can be in his comments, he must wish his words had such a swift impact on all his players. A manager who pronounced himself surprised that Bukayo Saka had only scored 13 goals for England got the desired answer. Now Saka has 14 and Tuchel’s England retain their 100 per cent record in World Cup qualifying. With Eberechi Eze also scoring, it was Arsenal 2 Serbia 0.

That Saka had agreed with Tuchel’s observation was telling. Criticism can be constructive and, in this instance, it was taken in the right way. It is harder to make the same claim when Tuchel had said his mother found Jude Bellingham “repulsive” – a remark for which the England manager apologised – but as the Real Madrid man made his first international appearance since that strange summer saga, it was with a policy of gradual reintegration.

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Chris Wilson13 November 2025 22:15

Welcome to the best week of the football year

Even before their players set off at the start of this week, some of the Premier League’s best managers already noticed the difference. The anticipation. The trepidation. The superstition of stopping themselves even dreaming it. “Just imagine…”

This is not a typical international window. When many players usually depart for such breaks in the modern game, there’s a sense of going through the motions; from one match to the next. Not this time.

Many are going to make history, to try and achieve a unique feat that brings rare universal feelings in football. To qualify for the greatest show of all, the World Cup.

Chris Wilson14 November 2025 08:00

‘This kid is something else’: The secret behind Alex Scott’s rise from Guernsey to an England call-up

An interview with Alex Scott, who could feature for the Three Lions on Sunday...

Alex Scott made his Guernsey FC debut as a second-half substitute, with an adult shirt flapping around his 16-year-old frame like a bedsheet. The opposition’s central midfielder, who had tattoos up to his neck and a glint in his eye as the teenager ran on to the pitch, welcomed him to non-league with a shove. “This guy could smell blood,” remembers Guernsey manager Tony Vance. But before he could put the boot in, Scott had swivelled and taken the ball somewhere else.

This was Scott’s gift, to receive it in tight spaces with ease and make opponents look foolish. Most players of his age and talent were in academies playing on green carpets at high-tech training centres, while Scott was learning to survive in the Isthmian League South East, the eighth tier of English men’s football, where midfield was essentially an escape room of sharp elbows and metal studs.

Chris Wilson14 November 2025 01:00