After Thursday’s appalling defeat at home to Greece, interim England boss Lee Carsley needed to get his side back on track. It wasn’t always pretty, but that’s exactly what they did. Goals from Jack Grealish, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Declan Rice put England back in contention for promotion out of the B Groups.

In the A Groups, Portugal are flying, they beat Poland. We’ve got the state of play across all of those upper groups for you, whether you like it or not.

Paul Tenorio watched Mauricio Pochettino’s first game in charge of the USMNT, he’s here to tell us how it went. And Abi Paterson is across all of the WSL, and some of the European games too.

Want to know why so many footballers are investing in esports teams? Ajay Rose has just the article for you.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5739705/2024/10/13/footballers-esports-david-beckham-neymar-casemiro/

Presenter: Iain Macintosh

With: Jack Pitt-Brooke, Paul Tenorio, Abi Paterson

Producer: Lucy Oliva

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Improved England get job done