avenged their shock defeat to Greece at Wembley last month as Lee Carsley’s side kept their chances of promotion back to Nations League A alive with a generally positive performance in a 3-0 win in Athens.
England flew out of the blocks at the Athens Olympic Stadium with Noni Madueke and Jude Bellingham particularly impressing and they both had a key hand in Ollie Watkins’s seventh-minute goal.
However, Greece came back into the game as the first half wore on, with Kostas Tsimikas forcing Jordan Pickford into a good save and the pressure built even further after the break, when it took another superb Pickford stop to deny Fotis Ioannidis.
But the Three Lions rode out the pressure and eventually got a vital second goal on 77 minutes when Bellingham’s shot hit the post and went in off the back of Odysseas Vlachodimos’s legs before Curtis Jones’s clever flicked finish late on sealed a much-needed win.
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