Rashford Displayed A Fantastic Show Of Character Against Slovakia – Dier

Marcus Rashford has come out to say he went “back to basics” to aid England all but secure their spot at next summer’s World Cup with a 2-1 win over Slovakia.

England had to come from a goal down at Wembley after Rashford’s error early on allowed Stanislav Lobotka to score a quick coounter-attack goal.

The Manchester United forward bounced back superbly to assist Eric Dier to equalise and then scored the crucial winner in the second half himself to finalize the comeback.

: “It was an important goal, we started a bit slow as a team — and me on a personal note — but we got back into the game together and got the win in the end which is all that matters.

“You have to get back to basics; just do what you’ve been taught and what you’ve been working on as a team and in the end that’s what got us back into the game.

“In these games it’s important to start fast because of the quality which is on the pitch and if you don’t you pay for it.”

Talking about Rashford’s performance, Dier jokingly said: “It wasn’t so good to begin with but it got better!”

The Tottenham midfielder added: “He did really well. It was a fantastic show of character to make a mistake and to come back and score the winner himself, which gets us closer to the World Cup, which hopefully he’ll shine at as well, so credit to him.

“It was really, really important. We needed a win to get us closer to the World Cup, that’s the objective. To do it the way we did, it was difficult, we started the game really poorly as a team, but we bounced back which was fantastic.”