Slovakia defender Jan Durica has slammed match officials following his team’s 1-0 defeat to England, claiming the result was fixed.

New England manager Sam Allardyce got his England career off to the perfect start as Adam Lallana scored an injury time winner, against the 10 men of Slovakia who had former Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel sent off for a crude stamp on Harry Kane.

Slovakia held on until practically the last kick when Adam Lallana won it for England on the occasion of Sam Allardyce’s first game at the helm.

Durica, 34, went further to say that England must be ensured of progression to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

He claims Serbian match referee Milorad Mazic gave decisions in favour of England and was waiting for the chance to dismiss Skrtel – even though television replays clearly showed the former Liverpool defender stamp on Harry Kane when already on a yellow.

“There is only one place at the World Cup. Why should Slovakia go there when we have England in the group?” Durica told reporters.

“Of course, they will always prefer the stronger team. Probably, the referee exactly knew how to do it.

“Today we might have played more than England.

Durica was not the only party aggrieved with refereeing decisions, as Kane commented on the conduct of Skrtel throughout.

Skrtel’s red card appeared to have been coming for some time — he had twice been spoken to by Mazic after the first yellow — and Kane believes Skrtel was lucky to stay on the pitch as long as he did.

“I felt the stamp. The ankle is OK now. I will have a check on it and see if it’s fully OK, but there were a few challenges that I felt could have earned him a yellow card but it didn’t come,” Kane told reporters.