JORDAN HENDERSON laughed off claims he went down too easily as he turned Wembley into the Theatre of Screams.
The Liverpool skipper yelled at the top of his voice as he was pulled back by Thomas Meunier. That was enough to convince German ref Tobias Stieler to award England a soft 39th-minute penalty to start the comeback.
Jordan Henderson was brought down by Thomas Meunier for England’s penalty
Henderson said: “I got in front of my man and I felt he pulled me back on my shoulder. So it was a penalty — would you agree?”
A day earlier, Henderson called on England to be more ‘horrible’ and Belgium boss Roberto Martinez certainly did not agree with his assessment of the penalty. He said: “It would have been a different game with VAR.
“The modern game has gone a different way in refereeing and when there is no VAR we didn’t get the luck we needed with the decisions.”
Borussia Dortmund full-back Meunier went to Henderson at full-time to take him to task over the incident.
He even mocked the Anfield star’s fall, dropping to his knees in comical fashion.
Marcus Rashford scored the spot-kick to cancel out Romelu Lukaku’s earlier penalty.
Mason Mount’s winner on 64 minutes, as his deflected shot looped in for his first Wembley goal, put England top of Nations League Group A2.
Marcus Rashford converted the resulting penalty to make it 1-1
Mason Mount’s deflected effort completed the comeback
The Chelsea star said: “They’re the No 1 team in the world and we were hanging in there at times.
“My goal is a special achievement. I found a bit of space in the box and I only had one thing on my mind.
“It took a big deflection but it doesn’t matter. I’ll take that all day.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
