{"id":201068,"date":"2025-10-15T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201068\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:13:08","slug":"in-the-form-of-his-life-how-england-players-rated-against-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201068\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;In the form of his life&#8217; &#8211; How England players rated against Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jordan Pickford \u2013 Pulled off a couple of good saves in the second half to maintain his impressive clean sheet record. That&#8217;s nine in a row now. 6.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Djed Spence \u2013 Has taken to international football like a duck to water. Sterner tests lie ahead, of course, but a good start to his England career. 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Stones \u2013 Two games in five days will do the Manchester City defender a world of good. Still one of the first names on the team-sheet, fitness permitting. 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ezri Konza \u2013 Selected ahead of Marc Guehi and didn&#8217;t put a foot wrong. Made an excellent last-ditch recovery tackle in the second half to boot. 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Myles Lewis-Skelly \u2013 Looked a little ring rusty at times, understandable given his lack of action at Arsenal. An interesting few months ahead. 6<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elliott Anderson \u2013 Looks undroppable in this England team at the moment. Looks made for this level and has struck up an excellent partnership with Rice. 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Declan Rice \u2013 Enjoying his nuumber eight role. The mainstay of England&#8217;s midfield is showing his attacking abilities now. Emerging us a genuine all-round midfielder. 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan Rogers \u2013 Not as impactful as he has been in England&#8217;s victories over Serbia and Wales. We should find out next month who is the true owner of the number 10 shirt. 6<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bukayo Saka \u2013 Added an assist to his excellent goal against Wales last Thursday. Will be crucial to England&#8217;s chances next summer. 7.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Kane \u2013 In the form of his life. Took his tally for the season to 20 goals. Has hit the back of the net 76 times for his country. Can he reach 100? 8<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthony Gordon \u2013 Sharp finish to get the ball rolling for England here in Riga. Has acquitted himself well during this international window. 7.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Pickford \u2013 Pulled off a couple of good saves in the second half to maintain his impressive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-201068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}