{"id":290479,"date":"2023-09-10T14:36:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T14:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=290479"},"modified":"2023-09-10T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T14:36:14","slug":"bellingham-admits-england-werent-at-usual-level-in-draw-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/bellingham-admits-england-werent-at-usual-level-in-draw-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellingham admits England weren&apos;t at usual level in draw with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jude Bellingham admits that England weren&#8217;t at their usual level in draw with Ukraine but stresses importance of moving a point closer to qualifying for Euro 2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jude Bellingham has admitted England were not at their best against Ukraine\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gareth Southgate&#8217;s side were held to a 1-1 draw in their latest Euro 2024 qualifier<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jude Bellingham has admitted that England weren&#8217;t at their usual level in their 1-1 draw against Ukraine on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Southgate&#8217;s side saw their 100 per cent start to Euro 2024 qualification come to an end in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham did, however, outline the importance of England moving a step closer to qualifying for next year&#8217;s tournament in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham wrote on his Instagram story:\u00a0&#8216;Not at our level but a point closer to Germany&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr Zinchenko gave Ukraine the lead in the 26th minute, with Kyle Walker scoring the equaliser for England just prior to half time with his first international goal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/14\/75266895-12501589-image-m-48_1694354071976.jpg\" height=\"673\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jude Bellingham has admitted England weren&#8217;t at their best in their draw against Ukraine<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/14\/75266983-12501589-image-a-49_1694354198190.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gareth Southgate&#8217;s side lacked flair as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Ukraine in Poland<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Even though they drew against Ukraine, England are six points clear of their opponents at the top of qualifying Group C, albeit having played a game more.<\/p>\n<p>As Bellingham alluded to, England certainly weren&#8217;t at their best against Ukraine, with Gareth Southgate admitting that his side weren&#8217;t dangerous enough in attack.<\/p>\n<p>Southgate said: \u2018Clearly, most of our attacking play wasn&#8217;t at the level that we would have hoped it to be. I think by the time we scored the goal we&#8217;d had over 70 per cent of the ball but that was our first attempt on target.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We turned over [lost] too many balls that we wouldn&#8217;t normally. I wouldn&#8217;t expect that to happen again.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We know that the patterns that we worked during the week are what we always do, so it&#8217;s not that we approach the game in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We tried to refresh things to give them a different sort of problem but today our forward play, bar the goal and Bukayo Saka\u2019s effort that hit the bar, wasn&#8217;t at the level that it has been in our previous games.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham has enjoyed a superb start to the season in front of goal at his new club Real Madrid, scoring five goals in just four league games.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/14\/75267007-12501589-image-a-50_1694354279273.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bellingham started and played 65 minutes against Ukraine before being substituted<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 20 he is already establishing himself as an important player for England and has 25 caps.<\/p>\n<p>England are back in action on Tuesday when they face Scotland away in a friendly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12501589\/Jude-Bellingham-admits-England-werent-usual-level-draw-Ukraine-stresses-importance-moving-point-closer-qualifying-Euro-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jude Bellingham admits that England weren&#8217;t at their usual level in draw with Ukraine but stresses importance of moving a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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