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England’s newest star Angel Gomes brought crashing back to Earth as he is SENT OFF in of Champions League defeat
Carsley recently gave a glowing review of the player
ENGLAND star Angel Gomes went from hero to zero as he was sent off in the Champions League.
The 24-year-old made his Three Lions debut in the win over Ireland and then put in a man of the match performance against Finland last week.
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Now back with his club Lille, Gomes played in their Champions League opener away at Sporting Lisbon yesterday.
But the midfielder was sent off in the first-half for two bookable offences.
He picked up his first yellow card just 21 minutes after kick-off for stopping a counter-attack by chopping down ex-Wolves winger Trincao.
And then with 40 minutes on the clock, Gomes caught the back of Viktor Gyokeres' leg after he cleverly spun away from him.
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Lithuanian referee Donastas Rumsas decided it was worthy of another booking and sent the former Manchester United wonderkid for an early bath.
The second booking came a matter of seconds after Gyokeres had opened the scoring for Sporting.
And with Lille down to ten-men, they were unable to overturn the deficit and lost 2-0.
Zeno Debast scored the other in what was a goal of the season contender.
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During his time with England, Gomes' composure on the ball and hard work out of possession saw him earn praise from manager Lee Carsley.
Carsely said: "He absolutely loves football. He watches football, he's interested in tactics, he knows all the player in any league.
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"If you ask him for any feedback you need to be prepared that he is going to give you some feedback on the session or how we're going to build up, or the positions.
"He'll help in terms of he will often say about some build-ups that he's done at other clubs or what he's played against, because obviously he's playing in France so he sees different things.
"He fully deserves it (his call-up)."
But since returning to the French club, it has all being going wrong for him as he was an unused sub as Lille lost to newly-promoted Saint-Etienne 1-0 last weekend.
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