England 2-0 USA (1994)

England enjoy a comfortable 2-0 friendly win at Wembley in September 1994 against USA, who barely pose an attacking threat all night. Alan Shearer scores both England goals but surprisingly he will have to wait until the opening game of Euro 96 before he scores again at international level.

[@ricardovelasco3976]

In the Days when Brad Friedel and Alan Shearer had Hair on their Heads.

[@nicholasalexander7008]

the lethal legend...Alan Shearer

[@karolpirog9127]

Shearer great striker !!!

[@paulashford4155]

A young Brad Friedel : )

[@lifegoals9528]

Ok, I will admit it; Shearer 1992-97 was magical. After that he was still good, but injuries and hip surgery wrecked his pace, so he was no longer world class as he was for his entire Blackburn career and first year at Newcastle United.

[@lifegoals9528]

@Athelstan Edwardson Gazza has to take the blame for his injuries. He got one by two footed jumping into a Nottingham Forest player's shin, then he got into a nightclub fight and reinjured it so he was out for 15 months. Another time he lunged at a player in a game for Lazio and damaged his leg. He was a loose cannon sadly, if only Alex Ferguson had got hold of him.

[@Aerojet01]

@@lifegoals9528 I very much doubt even the Great Fergie could've controlled him. Gazza was born an eccentric madman. Four, Four, Two dedicated an entire webpage of Gazza's 50 pranks and funny moments. The best England player in my life time.

[@DanielSong39]

@@Aerojet01 Gascoigne had well known substance abuse problems which seemed to prevent him from making better decisions in other areas of his life If he was just a goofy character and didn't have the substance abuse problems and stayed fit then we would have had an all time legend and maybe the best England player of all time

[@DanielSong39]

He looked fine in the 1998 World Cup and continued to be a solid, productive player all the way up until retirement At his best he was unquestionably one of the elite strikers in the world I'd rather have his career than Rooney's

[@23alexpb]

In 90's years England had a Golden generation: gascoigne, sheare, Owen, backam, schooles and other

[@freespirit4706]

2nd goal is brilliant. 👌🏻

[@TheRaveMusicArchive]

Was this the start of Sheringham and Shearer?

[@safeysmith6720]

It was revenge after that US Cup loss!

[@jocelynquilnet7453]

#BBCSPORTS APPLAUSE ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[@JonnyCool1.5]

Alan Shearer (true gentleman) showing off all that hair!!

[@joerlee454]

Alan shearer best

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

Teddy Sheringham was 28 here, which makes me wonder why he wasn't picked before. As for the US - they never even seemed to bother in this match, why did they even turn up?

[@mickey841q]

Joe-Max Moore, went on to play for Everton COYB and did alright. Brad Friedel, was much better as he got older and resembled an egg.

[@tombartram6842]

Little did we know but Shearer was destined not to score again for England for 21 months.

[@TheRaveMusicArchive]

England-Switzerland first game of Euro '96.

[@blackgold1980]

It's a shame that England did not make it to the world cup that year. I think that they would have done well. They would not have won it but possibly the quarter final stage at least.

[@KmT81]

YEAH! also France didnt made it too!eleminated by Bulgaria! Both England and France

[@TheRaveMusicArchive]

@@KmT81 Shame. We never got to see Cantona in the World Cup. I think he had fell out with the national team anyway.

[@TheRaveMusicArchive]

What's Platt doing at 2:05? Is he berating Shearer for not passing, possibly?

[@georgemacpherson1992]

England always came unstuck against the USA since the early 90’s (1993). Only 4 matches England dominated the USA who aren’t that good in football. 6-3 08/06/53 away 8-1 28/05/59 away 10-0 27/05/64 away 5-0 16/06/85 away England never got more than 3 goal at home in friendlies or on a neutral soil in world cups.

[@michaelclements4643]

Great team when we had great players but sadly Graham Taylor's tactics made England missed out of the 1994 world cup it's a shame Terry Venables didn't take over sooner (straight after Bobby Robson)

[@THOMASCOLTON1]

We had enough good players to qualify for 94 & go at least to QF. Terrible manager.

[@roberthowell6639]

I agree Taylor was out of his depth, but he also didn't get much luck in that 94 WCQ campaign ... If you ever see some of those games back, they actually play REALLY well against Norway and Holland at Wembley, but only get draws from both games (I think Norway steal an equaliser with a screamer into the top corner out of nothing when England should be out of sight) ... They also famously get stiffed by the referee in Holland (where they also hit the post and have one off the line) Any kind of luck in just one of those games, we probably qualify and history remembers Graham Taylor a little more kindly ... Also, if I remember rightly, I think he only had Shearer and Gascoigne available for 2 or those 10 qualifying games ... You are right though, he didn't help himself either by discarding some quality older players too early, like Beardsley and Waddle (who were both arguably playing some of their best ever football at that time) and picking jobbing runners like Carlton Palmer and Andy Sinton.

[@michaelclements4643]

@@roberthowell6639 the team should and could have played better even in the Euro 92 his tactics left some of our best players frustrated the likes.of Lineker

[@roberthowell6639]

@@michaelclements4643 Totally agree with you. Like I said before, he discarded a lot of older creative players like Beardsley and Waddle too early. With no Gascoigne either - the Euro 92 squad must be one of the least creative that England have ever sent to a tournament ... The point I was making before was that he didn't have much luck either tho for WC 94 with loss of best players, bad refs, unlucky breaks in games etc. The only really crap performance in WC94 qualifying was away in Norway. They were actually alright in the other games - but even when they played well, they still didn't win! (Bit like what happens to a relegated team in the league. Nobody's crap for all 38/46 games in a season) Don't get me wrong, we would have probably been shit in the finals anyway. Taylor would probably have picked jobbers, got his tactics wrong and we'd have gone out with a whimper in the last 16 or something. But with even just a bit of luck, we would have at least qualified for the USA.

[@michaelclements4643]

@@roberthowell6639 I just don't think.he had the respect of the team and able to get their motivation to eat to play for him to be honest after Robson left it would have been great to have chosen venables if he'd been available

[@neotemper6914]

The big victims of these European qualifiers were England, France, Denmark and Portugal. For the suspension of FIFA, Chile and Yugoslavia. In Asia, Japan and in Africa, Zambia. In South America, Uruguay.

[@matelot95]

I was there

[@blessedlion5329]

Me too I went with my dad and grandad I was only 6

[@shane-irish]

matelot95 ya rightttt

[@tomace4898]

Same old Shearer, always scoring.

[@reyjusuf]

Is that Brad Friedel?

[@DiRtYLaWs2007]

reyjusuf Yeah, sure is! He got better when he lost his hair :)

[@andrewjoyce9038]

Blackburn legend

[@seanbonella]

Rep. of Ireland were in '94 World Cup...how did England do????? oh wait hahahahaha

[@detomasopantera1966]

So 3-0 minus the idiot linesman for the Teddy goal "off side"...wtf???

[@scotday]

Lalas is horrible

[@detomasopantera1966]

Yeah like the others werent😂😂😂