Grealish opens the scoring with a cool finish after a lovely flick from Angel Gomes
England's Trent Alexander-Arnold scoring from a free kick during the Nations League match against Finland at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty ImagesIt was precisely what Lee Carsley needed. After the mayhem of the Wembley defeat against Greece on Thursday night and all of the fallout, chiefly the uncertainty around his longer-term role within the England set-up, this was a return to the tranquil progress of his first camp in September.
Jack Grealish has enjoyed himself under Carsley. This was his third start under him and he opened the scoring with a cool finish after a lovely flick from Angel Gomes. Declan Rice got the third from a cross by Ollie Watkins, on as a substitute, and Finland’s late consolation, Arttu Hoskonen running free to head home from a corner, was little more than a minor irritation for England.
Grealish injected the urgency, surging off the left to find Alexander-Arnold and dart for the area. What a lovely assist it would be from Gomes. He knew where Grealish was and when he accepted the ball from Alexander-Arnold in between the lines, he turned it neatly through for Grealish, who had only Lukas Hradecky to beat.
Twice before the interval Stones went stride-for-stride with first Keskinen and then Källman and on both occasions the Finland player was able to unload. Dean Henderson, making his full England debut, saved easily. Marc Guehi slid over from left centre half to make a back three when Alexander-Arnold sortied into midfield. But a word for Guehi’s defending: commanding. He won a clutch of duels in the first half, and always looked like doing so.
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