England ace Jordan Henderson screams at top of his voice as Belgium fume over soft penalty
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.
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.
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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.”