{"id":491301,"date":"2025-03-21T17:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491301"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T21:41:08","slug":"england-won-against-albania-2-0-in-tuchels-debut-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/england-won-against-albania-1-0-in-tuchels-debut-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"England won against Albania 2-0 in Tuchel\u2019s debut as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England defeated Albania 1-0 at Wembley in Thomas Tuchel\u2019s debut as the team manager as the Three Lions dominated and deserved to win the 3 points in the qualifier for the World Cup in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, Myles Lewis-Skelly scored after 20 minutes as he received a pass from Jude Bellingham and became the youngest footballer to score for England in his debut as he is 18 years, 176 days old.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Myles Lewis-Skelly strikes 20 minutes into his first England game \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<p>He&#39;s the youngest player to score on his Three Lions debut. <\/p>\n<p>What a season he&#39;s having \ud83d\udcc8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/29MANWoW0M\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/29MANWoW0M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1903178658467954798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jude Bellingham had a fantastic chance to double the home side&#8217;s lead in the 41st minute, but the goalkeeper denied him, and the ball ended in Harry Kane, but his shot was also denied by a defender with a goal-line clearance.<\/p>\n<p>Only 2 minutes later, Dan Burn&#8217;s header after a corner was deflected onto the crossbar by the goalkeeper, and the ball went for another corner.<\/p>\n<p>The home team continued to dominate in the 2nd half but had to wait until the final minutes of the match to see its lead doubled. Harry Kane received a fantastic pass from Declan Rice inside the penalty area, and he scored to double England\u2019s lead in the 77th minute to secure the 3 points for his former Bayern Munich head coach and now manager at the Three Lions, Thomas Tuchel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Off to a winning start \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>A 2-0 success to start the Thomas Tuchel era and our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FIFAWorldCup<\/a> qualifying campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lXJYDIJsHA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lXJYDIJsHA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; England (@England) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/England\/status\/1903199848326738334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England defeated Albania 1-0 at Wembley in Thomas Tuchel\u2019s debut as the team manager as the Three Lions dominated and deserved to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":491302,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22222,16877,22139],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[22224,18341,22140],"acf":{"announce":"Lewis-Skelly became the youngest player to score in his debut for the national team.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491304,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491301\/revisions\/491304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491301"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491301"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}