After watching England’s 3-0 final victory over Costa Rica in the Three Lions’ final preparation game before the World Cup, the Mirror’s chief football writer John Cross said:<\/p>\n
Hello, it’s John Cross in Orlando where it’s finished England three, Costa Rica nil. And I have to say, that was probably as good a preparation, I think, as England could have hoped for, really. Declan Rice on target. Anthony Gordon slamming one in. Ollie Watkins completing the win.<\/p>\n
And the travelling England fans, fantastic again, absolutely magnificent, chanting “It’s coming home” by the end.<\/p>\n
Do they believe they’re absolutely going to win the World Cup? Well, they can dream. They can probably take a bit of a boost from this performance actually, because it felt a long way further down the road from their win over New Zealand last weekend.<\/p>\n
Watch the rest of his post-match analysis below:<\/p>\n
The Mirror reviews England’s friendly against Costa Rica before the World Cup kicks off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After watching England’s 3-0 final victory over Costa Rica in the Three Lions’ final preparation game before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8111,10668,14944,59,2818,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-england-football-team","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football-fans","tag-gb","tag-scotland-football-team","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632922","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=632922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}