England 2 – 0 Albania
Thomas Tuchel first starting XI marked up a comfortable win for England against Albania at Wembley on Friday with Jordan Pickford retains his place in goal and keeping a clean sheet.
The full first team:
England: Pickford, Walker, Lewis-Skelly, Burn, Konsa, Rice, Bellingham, Jones, Rashford, Foden, Kane
On the Albania bench is Chelsea’s England-born Armando Broja, on loan with Everton.
Jordan Pickford continues in goal for England, winning his 74th cap.
With 20 minutes gone, Myles Lewis-Skelly on his England debut scored the first goal of the Thomas Tuchel era after great work from Jude Bellingham who turned his marker in midfield and then played a superb ball through the Albanian defence, Lewis-Skelly ran onto it on the left side of the box and slotted it in between the goalkeeper’s legs.
Albania made the first change on 62 minutes: Armando Broja, who is on loan at Everton from Chelsea, replaced Rangers’ forward Nedim Bajrami.
England finally got a second goal when Harry Kane took the ball down well, turned and slotted his shot across goal, and inside the far post.