A Weekly Round-Up of the Latest Championship Games by Mr Russ Vernon
Sunday, 1 June 2014
England 3-0 Peru.... The Vernon Adventure
I set off from my house in Rotherham at 11am to get the coach to Wembley from Sheffield 1.50pm.
The coach arrived and we set off from Sheffield picking up at Chesterfield on the way to down to Wembley for the game. We stopped at Watford Gap Service Station for a toilet brake and to stretch our legs at 4pm and left the services at 4.30pm and we arrived at Wembley at round 6.30pm.
I was listening on the radio and team news broke just after 7pm and England lined-up with: Hart; Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines; Gerrard, Henderson; Lallana, Rooney, Welbeck; Sturridge. I thought the team was pritty strong and was expecting us to score 3, 4 maybe 5 goals from the team Roy had picked.
On to the game and England took a while to get started but once they did England played some good passing football.
It took until the 32nd minute for the deadlock to be broken but when it did Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge took the ball well and struck the ball home beautifully from the edge of the box.
Joe Hart made sure England took the lead at the break when he had to pull off a good save at his near post from Peru's Luis Ramirez as he was released in space behind the England Back 4.
Half Time: England 1-0 Peru
Peru started the second half well and tried to get back on terms as Jean Deza triped a long range strike from 35 yards out but the shot dropped onto the roof of the net, Deza almost capitalised on a mistake from Johnson but Cahill covered the danger very well.
Gary Cahill's play and hard work was rewarded on 65 minutes moments after Wilshere came on for Gerrard as Leighton Baines wipped in a corner and Cahill got free of his marker to head home England's 2nd goal of the evening.
England then brought on Sterling for Rooney on 66 minutes and Sterling made some amazing runs at the Peru defence. 5 minutes after Cahill put England 2-0 up his centre back partner Jagielka made it 3-0 as Peru keeper Raul Fernandez fell into his own defender lost control of the ball and Jags hit the ball underneath the keeper, 3-0 England lead on 70 minutes.
England brought on Smalling & Milner for Jagielka & Lallana respecitivley on 73 minutes. Also Hodgson brought on John Stones for his debut replacing Baines on 75 mins and Barkley replaced Sturridge with 9 minutes remaining.
England could have had a 4th goal late on as Barkley played Sterling in but his shot was heading off target and wasn't going to trouble Fernandez in the Peru goal.
England managed to hold on and now head to Miami for two games v Ecuador (Wednesday 4th June) and Honduras (Saturday 7th June) before the World Cup opener against Italy on 14th June KO 11pm BST.
Full Time: England 3-0 Peru
I arrived home at 02:35am Saturday Morning and i enjoyed my day at Wembley
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