Walker has the longest wait for first England goal as pitch not satisfying
England were held to a 1-1 draw by Ukraine in Saturday's Euro 2024 qualifier held in Poland due to the ongoing conflict involving the traditional home side.
Arsenal's Oleksandr Zinchenko put Ukraine ahead after 26 minutes with a fierce shot from the middle of the penalty area after a smart attack by the hosts.
But Kyle Walker scored his first international goal with five minutes left in the first half, getting himself in behind the Ukrainian defence to make a smart finish.
The second half remained goalless, with both sides unable to find a winner. The draw is the first time England have dropped points in five Group C games, while Ukraine's point gives them seven points from four matches so far.
Here's MailSport's Sami Mokbel with some of the different talking points from the Wroclaw Stadium after Ukraine 1-1 England:
The race to be England No 2 at Euro 2024 is gearing up to be an uncertain one.
As it stands, Aaron Ramsdale is widely recognised as Jordan Pickford’s understudy but the Arsenal keeper is in danger of losing his place Mikel Arteta’s team to David Raya.
Sam Johnstone, the third keeper in Gareth Southgate’s current squad, returns to Crystal Palace next week knowing the club have just signed Dean Henderson from Manchester United for £20m.
While Pickford can be sure of playing regularly at Everton ahead of the tournament, the emerging ambiguity over Southgate’s fall back options won’t have gone unnoticed by the England head coach.
There’d have been a few Premier League managers sat at home alarmed at the state of the pitch here in Wroclaw.
The turf still appeared to be feeling the effects of Oleksandr Usyk’s world heavyweight title defence against Daniel Dubois a fortnight ago.
An accident waiting to happen; although some
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