It was a great night at Wembley for Midlands based players last night, with Jack Grealish putting in a man of the match performance and Conor Coady scoring, as the Three Lion’s comfortably dispatched Ryan Giggs’ side 3-0.
Wales’ last visit to Wembley came just over nine years ago, when Gary Speed’s team were the opposition in a EURO qualifier, losing 1-0.
The Three Lions took the points in the last encounter with the Red Dragons too, courtesy of a dramatic late winner from Daniel Sturridge at the EURO 2016 group stages in France.
Villa captain Jack Grealish, making his full England debut, set up in form Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin to open the scoring for Gareth Southgate’s men.
Wolves skipper Coady, in what was only his second start and first at Wembley then joined in, producing an excellent first-time finish from Kieran Trippier’s second-half free-kick.
Coady’s goal was his first since a penalty in a 4-0 victory at Bolton during the 2017-18 Championship winning campaign, and first from open play since 2016, during an EFL cup first round match against Crawley.
The strike was also the first by a Wolves player for England since Steve Bull netted in a warm-up match against Tunisia before the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
The night got even better for Coady when he was handed the captain’s armband with just over 30 minutes remaining after Trippier was substituted.
Grealish’s Villa Park teammate Tyrone Mings also got in on the act after being introduced as a second half substitute, heading the ball down from a corner in which Southampton striker Danny Ings produced a brilliant overhead kick to make it 3-0.
It is the first time three players have all scored their first Three Lions goals in the same game since 1963.
Coady said: “I’m in shock to be honest with you, it will live with me forever. I think it will be on continual repeat in my house now with the kids.”
England are back in action on Sunday evening, taking on Belgium in a UEFA Nations League group stage match.