Internationals | Assists for Robertson, Spence in World Cup warm-ups
Both Andy Robertson and Djed Spence provided the opening goals in pre-World Cup friendly victories on Saturday evening.
Robertson, our new recruit, started his 94th game for Scotland with a bang, overlapping Ryan Christie to the byline and putting in a dinked cut back for Lawrence Shankland to head home inside the first five minutes of their friendly against Bolivia at the Sports Illustrated Stadium in New Jersey.
The Tartan Army went on to win 4-0 in their final game ahead of their opening World Cup game, their first since 1998, which is against Haiti in Group C on Sunday, 14 June. The full back, Scotland’s captain for the tournament and second all-time appearance maker, played the opening 45 minutes before being substituted for Kieran Tierney.
Spence also played 45 minutes on Saturday night as England beat New Zealand at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida. On his fifth cap for his country, the versatile 25-year-old, who started the game at left back, created the only goal of the game, moving the ball onto his right foot before whipping it into the penalty area for Spurs icon Harry Kane to flick into the net in stoppage time.
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England manager Thomas Tuchel changed the entire starting 11 at the break, maintaining their one-goal lead throughout the second half of the first of their two pre-World Cup friendlies. Next up for the Three Lions is a clash with Costa Rica in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, 10 June, before travelling west to Arlington, Texas, where they will play Croatia in the first game of Group L seven days later.
Elsewhere, Ben Davies’ Wales fell to defeat in their friendly against Romania in Bucharest, who were without Radu Dragusin, and Cuti Romero returned from the knee injury he sustained in April, coming on midway through the second half of Argentina’s 2-0 friendly win over Honduras.
Davies was an unused substitute for Wales on his return to a matchday squad for the first time since undergoing ankle surgery in January, while Romero played 27 minutes of Argentina’s first of two warm-up friendlies before they start their World Cup defence.
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