BBC podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n“You look at Steven Gerrard against AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League final. Roy Keane against Juventus for Manchester United. They dragged the teams through them games.<\/p>\n
“I felt like that was Bellingham’s one with them two goals – the timing of the goals, his desire, his work rate, his hunger.”<\/p>\n
Gerrard scored the first goal as Liverpool came from 3-0 down at half-time to beat AC Milan in Istanbul on penalties and lift the trophy while Keane also scored against Juventus as United overturned a 3-1 aggregate deficit in an inspired display despite knowing a yellow card had ruled him out of the final that year.<\/p>\n
Rooney rated Bellingham’s performance in the last-16 victory in Mexico’s capital as a ’10 out of 10′ given the ‘pitfalls’ which surrounded the game.<\/p>\n
The Real Madrid star also pulled off a brilliant last-ditch tackle to deny Mexico defender Cesar Montes a goal that would have made it 2-2 on the stroke of half-time.<\/p>\n
“At times defensively he’s not always in the right positions, but his desire to get back and put that last-minute tackle in and help his team-mates when they’re not maybe having the best game was everything,” added Rooney.<\/p>\n
“I just felt when you get asked to mark them out of 10, you’re looking, thinking – could he have done a little bit more to get that mark up?<\/p>\n
“I just felt it was the right game to give him a 10 out of 10.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney believes Jude Bellingham’s performance against Mexico was reminiscent of heroic Champions League displays from Steven Gerrard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-749223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}