Well, it won’t be the toughest examination this England defence will face, but you can bet Big Sam will be delighted with that!
It wasn’t pretty to watch, much like the 0-0 England played out against the same opposition in June, and we shouldn’t have expected the performance to be completely different after 76 days.
But Slovakia are very strong at home — they inflicted Spain’s first European Championship qualifying defeat in eight years in 2014 — and it’s still very early in the season.
STONES ON A ROLL
John Stones was excellent.