He scored a hat-trick in Glasgow and England showed its “teeth”!

A strong first-half display saw England beat Scotland 3-1 at Celtic in a warm-up friendly for the two sides, who took advantage of their off-days in their respective Euro 2024 qualifying groups in which the ‘three lions ” to show the steady momentum and the “bravehearts” to “land” sharply after 5 on 5” in the first group.

Led by Jude Bellingham, Gareth Southgate’s men scored with Real Madrid ace Foden and Kane, while Maguire’s own goal gave the hosts temporary hope.

The English entered the match stronger and pressured Gan’s goal without actually threatening the frames of the “bravehearts”, who were actually trying to threaten with counter-attacks and essentially playing mass defense against the “three lions”. Finally, in the 32nd minute Walker’s cross brought the Manchester City centre-back to shoot from the sideline, the ball went against Foden and ended up in the net for 0-1. In the 34th minute, after a fine effort, Bellingham turned the ball inside the area and, after a mistake by Henderson, it ended up again for the Real Madrid ace, who made it 0-2 with a spot-kick.

In the second half, the Scots came on stronger as Gareth Southgate’s men dropped back and gave space to the hosts, who pressed unorthodox most of the time and with high balls that easily cut through the Euro 2021 finalists’ centre-backs. 68′ McKinney gave a nice pass to Robertson, who turned nicely into the area and Maguire in his attempt to clear the ball, sent it into the Ramsdale net for 1-2.

Scotland went close to leveling a minute later as Bellingham’s impressive energy forced Gunn into a stunning save. Finally, the player of the “merenches” with an amazing cross found Kane and he with a nice place in the 81′ made it 1-3. The pace then dropped and until the end, nothing worthwhile happened in front of the two teams.

SCOTLAND: Gunn, Porteous, Hendry, Tierney (82′ Armstrong), Robertson, Hickey (89′ Patterson), Gilmour (60′ Dykes), McGregor (89′ Jack), McTominay, McGinn (82′ Ferguson), Adams (59′ Christie )

ENGLAND: Ramsdale, Walker, Dunk, Gwehi (46′ Maguire), Trippier, Phillips, Rice, Foden (71′ Saka), Bellingham (84′ Gallagher), Rashford (71′ Eze), Kane (84′ Wilson)