Goalscorer Harry Kane has called for calm after England’s magnificent comeback win over reigning world champions Germany in Berlin on Saturday.
Eric Dier’s stoppage-time header capped a fine turnaround for Roy Hodgson’s men following superb strikes from both Kane and Jamie Vardy.
Toni Kroos and Mario Gomez struck either side of half-time for the Germans to open a two-goal lead that did not reflect the balance of play.
Germany 2-3 England
International Friendly
Olympiastadion, Berlin
7.45pm (GMT) Saturday 26 March
By Charlie Talbot-Smith
But England refused to give in and three goals in the final half an hour turned the game on its head.
On Tuesday England welcome the Netherlands to Wembley Stadium and Kane called for calm after this victory in the Olympiastadion.
But the Tottenham striker did concede that this was a special night for Hodgson’s young side – who had only 161 caps between the entire starting XI.
Kane said: “We are all buzzing – credit to the lads because we never gave in and what a night! But everyone needs to stay calm – it’s a friendly.
“It’s a great night for England, 2-0 down against the world champions and coming back shows what kind of a team we are.
“But we just need to keep doing what we are doing, there’s another important game on Tuesday and we go from there.
“We played brilliantly and I thought we fully deserved the win. We had a lot of chances and on another day we probably could have scored a few more.”
Kane began the fightback with a remarkable Cruyff turn and finish – a timely dedication to the late great Johan Cruyff who died this week.
Vardy then came off the bench to produce a sublime near-post flick to level up the game – much to his delight.
“When you start off as sub you want to come and try and make an impact if possible, I have done that in the first few touches and we have gone on to win the game,” said the Leicester City front man.
“I just wanted to get across the near post and get something on it, I tried the little backheel and luckily it has come off.”
Roy Hodgson felt England were good value for the win over Germany
And Hodgson admitted afterwards that his side had fully deserved their remarkable comeback – sealed by Dier’s near-post header from Jordan Henderson’s corner.
“You don’t beat Germany every day,” said the manager.
“It was a good follow up from the performance against France. Albeit that was a few months ago, but I thought we picked up from where we left off.
“At half-time it was very unjust we came in 1-0 down, especially because our goalkeeper was injured trying to save from [Toni] Kroos.
"To go 2-0 down was even more unfair, but to come back and score three goals is tremendous and the players will take enormous heart from that.”
