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England player ratings vs Croatia: Harry Kane joined by two 8/10s on special night

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Tabuteau, S. (2026, November 12). England player ratings vs Croatia: Harry Kane joined by two 8/10s on special night. Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/england-player-ratings-vs-croatia-kane-b1304709.html

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Evening Standard · collected 2026-11-12 · by Sam Tabuteau

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This piece provides a first-person account of an England player ratings by Sam Tabuteau following a 2-1 victory over Croatia at Wembley. The report details a match where Morgan Rogers scored in the 24th minute and Harry Kane secured a winning penalty after Jarrel Quansah’s error led to a Croatian equalizer. Tabuteau assigns ratings between 4 and 8 to the squad, highlighting Jude Bellingham and Lewis Hall as high performers and criticizing Quansah for his defensive lapses.
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Sam Tabuteau
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Will have been cursing Quansah’s decision-making as he picked the ball out the back of his net just before the hour mark.
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Topics

Croatia Croatian England the Three Lions

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England GPE · 11× Croatia GPE · 4× Kane PERSON · 3× Bellingham PERSON · 2× Harry Kane PERSON · 2× Morgan Rogers PERSON · 2× Rogers PERSON · 2× Dominik Livakovic PERSON · 1× Josko Gvardiol PERSON · 1× the Three Lions ORG · 1×

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Jarell Quansah 4 Undone by a couple of pieces of Croatian trickery in the first-half, and then majorly at fault for their equaliser as he tried to head the ball back to Pickford inside a packed penalty area.
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Will have been cursing Quansah’s decision-making as he picked the ball out the back of his net just before the hour mark.

Claims (22 extracted, 0 hedged)

Harry Kane scored on the night he broke England’s all-time men’s appearance record as the Three Lions beat Croatia 2-1 at Wembley. asserted
Lions → score → Wembley
Morgan Rogers opened the scoring in the 24th minute as Dominik Livakovic flapped at his close-range shot, following some calamitous defending from Josko Gvardiol. asserted
Livakovic → open → Gvardiol
Croatia equalised just before the hour mark as Luka Sucic stole in to poke home from Jarrel Quansah’s ill-advised header, but England were back ahead minutes later as Kane scored from the penalty spot. asserted
Kane → equalise → spot
Sam Tabuteau was at Wembley to rate the England players… Jordan Pickford 6 Showed quick feet to get out of trouble near his goal line early on. asserted
Pickford → rate → line
Will have been cursing Quansah’s decision-making as he picked the ball out the back of his net just before the hour mark. asserted
he → curse → mark
He and Kane enjoyed a brief period of trying to one-up each other with their sweeping passes from deep. asserted
He → enjoy → deep
Jarell Quansah 4 Undone by a couple of pieces of Croatian trickery in the first-half, and then majorly at fault for their equaliser as he tried to head the ball back to Pickford inside a packed penalty area. asserted
he → try → area
Involved at the other end, winning the penalty from which England quickly retook the lead. asserted
England → involve → lead
Read More Dan Burn 7 A rogue pick from Tuchel, who you feel did not need to use a night like this to understand what Burn can offer. asserted
Burn → read → what
Enjoyed some early head tennis as Croatia made the faster start. asserted
Croatia → enjoy → start
If fit, he surely has to be England’s first-choice left-back. asserted
he → have → ?
Elliot Anderson 6 Bobbed and weaved his way through pressure and kept things ticking in the middle of the park. asserted
things → bob → park
Found himself scrambling back towards his own goal a couple of times. asserted
himself → find → times
Was able to express himself and impose his physicality on Croatia as England coasted for much of the evening. asserted
England → express → evening
Morgan Rogers 7 Smuggled the ball home as Livakovic made a hash of saving his shot from inside the six-yard box. asserted
Livakovic → smuggle → box
Jude Bellingham 8 His movement rather than the pass itself provided the opportunity for Rogers’ goal. asserted
movement → provide → goal
Still, Bellingham proved again that he will always find himself in the right place at the right time. asserted
he → prove → time
Kane was just showing off tonight, wowing the Wembley crowd with an array of wonderful passes, one of which played a crucial role in Rogers’ opener before getting his goal from the penalty spot. asserted
one → show → spot
Not given much time to show what he is all about. asserted
he → give → what
Tonight should have been a chance for him to get his feet under the table in an England shirt. asserted
him → get → shirt
James Garner N/A Thought he had scored his first England goal, only to be denied by an offside in the build-up. Ben White N/A Booed as he came on. asserted
he → think → up
He still has work to do if he is to get England’s supporters back on side it seems. asserted
it → have → side
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