Rooney break dutch heart
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England have been held been held in Holland 1-1 thanks to a late, late effort from Rafael van der Vaart.
After missing an early chance, Wayne Rooney quickly made amends when he cleverly flicked Joe Cole's incisive right-wing cross into the corner of Henk Timmer's goal after 37 minutes.
It was the 21-year-old's first England goal since the 3-2 friendly victory over Argentina last November.
England played out the half with renewed vigour and might have had a second when Andrew Johnson's cross was deflected goalwards by Denny Landzaat.
After halftime, Arjen Robben saw penalty claims waved away after he went down under a tackle from substitute Shaun Wright-Phillips before Klaas-Jan Huntelaar could not quite reach a left-wing cross with the goal at his mercy.
But just as England looked as though they were about to hold out for a morale-boosting victory, van der Vaart rifled home from 10 yards after the visitors had made hard work of dealing with a throw-in.
England could have won it late on when Steven Gerrard burst into the area but his volley was well parried by substitute keeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
After missing an early chance, Wayne Rooney quickly made amends when he cleverly flicked Joe Cole's incisive right-wing cross into the corner of Henk Timmer's goal after 37 minutes.
It was the 21-year-old's first England goal since the 3-2 friendly victory over Argentina last November.
England played out the half with renewed vigour and might have had a second when Andrew Johnson's cross was deflected goalwards by Denny Landzaat.
After halftime, Arjen Robben saw penalty claims waved away after he went down under a tackle from substitute Shaun Wright-Phillips before Klaas-Jan Huntelaar could not quite reach a left-wing cross with the goal at his mercy.
But just as England looked as though they were about to hold out for a morale-boosting victory, van der Vaart rifled home from 10 yards after the visitors had made hard work of dealing with a throw-in.
England could have won it late on when Steven Gerrard burst into the area but his volley was well parried by substitute keeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
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