England need to learn from defensive mistakes against Kosovo – Jordan Henderson

Jordan Henderson has revealed England will take an in-depth look at the sloppy goals they conceded as they beat Kosovo in a Euro 2020 qualifying thriller at St Marys on Tuesday.The Three Lions recovered from falling behind after just 34 seconds to hit five first-half goals, only for mistakes to cost them in the second half as the visitors pegged Gareth Southgates side back as the game finished 5-3.Raheem Sterling provided a goal and three assists, while Jadon Sancho scored his first international goals and Harry Kane also found the net in an impressive England attacking display."He was in my room last night asking me to square one for him today!" How about two? @sterling7 @Sanchooo10 pic.twitter.com/kVIRbOLwRR England (@England) September 10, 2019But it was at the back where former defender Southgate will have pressing concerns.Michael Keane gave the ball away for Valon Berishas first-minute strike, Declan Rice was culpable for Berishas second effort and Harry Maguire tripped Vedat Muriqi, who then tucked away the resulting penalty.With players now heading back to their club sides, Liverpool skipper Henderson admits there is a debrief required when the squad reassemble for next months qualifying double-header away to the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.Weve got a period when we go back to our clubs and then when we come back we can look at the games in more depth, he said Czech Republic (A, Oct 11)Bulgaria (A, Oct 14)Montenegro (H, Nov 14)Kosovo (A, Nov 17) Well be disappointed with the goals weve conceded. Its a very sloppy second half. We should control the game a lot more and probably score a couple more goals.Well be disappointed with that side but first half was a really good performance. We looked so dangerous on the break and were ruthless in front of goal. There are positives to take but a lot to improve on.Well wait until the next meeting to analyse it properly. Theres a lot of emotion involved when you come straight in from a game, so I think its better to analyse the game and look back and that will have to come at the next camp. That will be important because we need to learn from it.Southgate named the youngest starting line-up of his England tenure as he continues to put faith in rising talent something Henderson is well behind.Jordon Henderson, left, was impressed with Jadon Sancho (Adam Davy/PA)If you look at the young players coming through, I thought Sancho was brilliant at times, he said.He was so good with the ball, his runs and his final product. Theres still a lot of positives.Were still confident and feel were going in the right direction, but were far from being the perfect team. We want to improve. We want to be even better.Im feeling older with all these youngsters around. I certainly feel a responsibility. But I always have. I feel a responsibility to the team to make sure Im helping them any way I can, whether thats on or off the pitch. View this post on Instagram Great atmosphere at st Marys, thanks for all the support. 2 wins from 2 this camp but still plenty to improve on. A post shared by Jordan Henderson (@jhenderson) on Sep 10, 2019 at 4:03pm PDTAnother relative elder statesman of the current group is Sterling the 24-year-old hitting his eighth goal in as many international games at Southampton.The Manchester City forward is enjoying a purple patch of form and Henderson believes it is a case of hard work paying off.Raheems a fantastic player, he said.Hes been playing like this for many years, hes always been so good to play with.Raheem Sterling scores for England (Adam Davy/PA)Now hes getting his rewards, hes getting goals and assists and you can see his confidence growing.Hes performing at the highest level and hopefully he can continue to do that.Hes getting in the right areas, hes scoring goals and assisting goals. Of course hes going to be confident, hes doing really well and hes still looking to improve all the time.We just need him to keep doing it more for England than City! Hes a great lad and a fantastic player.(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){

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