Andorra 0 England 1 – What a relief that’s over! | OneFootball

It ended Andorra 0 England 1.

Absolutely woeful to watch.

The highlight was the final whistle.

I think the reality is that no matter what formation you play, which players you select, England just aren’t very good.

I watched that Spain 5 France 4 match the other night and it is like watching a different sport.

English players are just so over-hyped it is embarrassing. The Premier League has so much focus on it and we are told it is so brilliant, so automatically the England players who play in it are great…but are they?

As for those who play their club football outside of England? When does Bellingham ever play especially well for England and as for Harry Kane, he is so slow it is embarrassing. He scored the winner from a few yards out but zero chance of England doing anything in the 2026 World Cup finals (if they get there!) with him up front.

Everything so slow and backwards tonight and a thankless task for the likes of Dan Burn at the back with precious little to do. Yes, the Newcastle defender ended up making a couple of sloppy passes. but those in midfield and attack refusing to take responsibility, refusing to commit this non-league level opposition. Plus, because they we so negative in midfield and up front, I am pretty sure that Dan Burn was easily the England player to make the most passes.

Those in front of the defence who are supposed to be these great attacking superstars, such as Bellingham, Palmer and so on, rarely willing to run at and commit the opposition. An opposition that is/was Andorra.

When a team is so poor and so defensive, you have to make the most of corners and free-kicks,, especially with players like Burn to attack the ball. Yet England’s 12 corners and other deliveries into the box were woeful with few exceptions, Palmer the biggest culprit.

Anthony Gordon came on with less than ten minutes to go and did ok, prepared to run at the opposition,, a revelation! Rogers had some good moments and Madueke similar, however, even they should be taking this level of opposition apart.

I always laugh when after a shocking performance like this, you get certain journalists and stattos coming up with total nonsense.

One of these I saw after this Andorra farce was that Thomas Tuchel has become the first England manager to win his first three competitive games without conceding a goal. Well they were at home to Albania and Latvia, then away against Andorra!

Another stat I saw, that England have scored in a;; of their last 20 games in the World Cup Qualifiers, scoring 60 goals in these 20 matches. Well yes, England are always top seed and get a load of cannon fodder in their groups,, such as Andorra, Albania, Latvia and countless other tiny countries ending in a!!!

Yet another stat, it is now 551 minutes without England conceding a goal. Once again, look at who they have played!

It is the same when they come out with all these Harry Kane scoring stats, he added another tap in on Saturday but was terrible, walked around the pitch. If Alan Shearer and those England strikers before him, had played such terrible opposition in the vast majority of their matches, how many more would they have scored???

Thomas Tuchel has to take his share of the blame for this shocker of a match but I do think that there are two massive issues that are there, no matter who the manager is.

England don’t have the quality that the likes of Spain and France have, especially when it comes to creativity of players and scoring goals. Then also, because they are told so often how brilliant the Premier League is and how brilliant they must be to play in it and be selected for England, the majority of the England players then believe they are these superstar talents that in reality they are not. So they stroll around thinking that just by their presence on the pitch the opposition are going to be so in awe of them, they will crumble.

Final score: Andorra 0 England 1

The England team v Andorra:

Pickford, James, Konsa, Burn, Jones (Rice 81), Henderson (Eze 64), Bellingham (Gibbs-White 91), Rogers (Gordon 81), Palmer (Alexander-Arnold 64), Madueke, Kane

Subs:

Walker, Rice, Colwill, Henderson, Toney, Lewis-Skelly, Trafford, Chalobah

This is the June 2025 international schedule for Newcastle United players:

Thursday 5 June

Ecuador 0 Brazil 0

Bruno Guimaraes was one of Brazil’s better players in this dour World Cup group qualifier, Ancelotti’s first game in charge. In the Goal ratings only Marquinhos (8/10) getting a higher rating than Bruno Guimaraes (7/10). A match of minimal chances at either end and when Vinicius Junior set up the best opportunity of the game for Casemiro, it was a feeble effort from the Man U player. A win would have seen Brazil pretty much sure of qualifying but a point means a little more work to do to make sure.

Friday 6 June

Norway 3 Italy 0

Sandro Tonali and his teammates had a night to forget in this World Cup group qualifier. Three goals down by the break, the home side cruised to this big victory. Only the group winners automatically qualify and Italy already under pressure, as Norway have nine points from the first three of the eight group games they each have to play.

Saturday 7 June

Andorra 0 England 1

A woeful match as England struggled to a 1-0 win in this World Cup group qualifier against woeful opposition, Harty Kane scoring from a few yards out. Dan Burn played the whole game and had minimal defending to do, Andorra with no shots on target and not a single corner, the Newcastle defender with the most passes of any player on the pitch and when giving it to midfielders and attacking players, very rarely they were willing to take any attacking responsibility and just gave the ball back to Burn, sideways and backwards. Anthony Gordon came on in the 81st minute and looked sharp, willing to run at the opposition.

Monday 9 June

Italy v Moldova (Sandro Tonali) World Cup group qualifier

Tuesday 10 June

England v Senegal (Anthony Gordon, Dan Burn) Friendly

Greece v Bulgaria (Odysseas Vlachodimos) Friendly

Slovakia v Israel (Martin Dubravka) Friendly