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17-05-2023 13:33
17-05-2023 13:33
‘My face was twitching’: Rickie Lambert describes what it was like to score the winner for England vs Scotland at Wembley on his debut
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Two minutes and 43 seconds was all it took for Rickie Lambert to score on his England debut in August 2013, the striker heading in the winning goal in a 3-2 victory against Scotland with his first touch of the match. While only a friendly game, set-up as part of the Football Association's 150th anniversary celebrations, Lambert expresses his emotion in vivid detail to FourFourTwo when remembering the finish. "My whole career was about proving people wrong," Lambert tells FFT. "I wanted to show I deserved to be in the squad. "Mentally, I was on it all week in training and I think the other England players were surprised by my technical ability and touch. I was thinking, ‘Please give me game time’. After the match, my face was twitching – I couldn’t believe what had just happened."
Two minutes and 43 seconds was all it took for Rickie Lambert to score on his England debut in August 2013, the striker heading in the winning goal in a 3-2 victory against Scotland with his first touch of the match. While only a friendly game, set-up as part of the Football Association's 150th anniversary celebrations, Lambert expresses his emotion in vivid detail to FourFourTwo when remembering the finish. "My whole career was about proving people wrong," Lambert tells FFT. "I wanted to show I deserved to be in the squad. "Mentally, I was on it all week in training and I think the other England players were surprised by my technical ability and touch. I was thinking, ‘Please give me game time’. After the match, my face was twitching – I couldn’t believe what had just happened."