 A little under a month after the European Championship defeat, the FA appointed Sunderland's manager Sam Allardyce as the new manager of the national side.Allardyce chose to forego a friendly match to begin his reign, so his first match in charge was the first match of England's 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign in Slovakia.England laboured to a 1–0 win in Trnava, with Lallana scoring in stoppage time.