World Cups are too precious, too rare, not to learn from past mistakes. Tuchel’s England was always just a rebrand, a software update on Gareth Southgate’s England. They were more inexperienced and naïve at his first tournament at Russia 2018, yet eight years on, as though no progress had been made, here was a rerun of that semi-final defeat to Croatia: a collective panic, a fear of the ball, a fear of leading because eyes were now clockwatching and minds on the final. Play the game in front of you — Argentina did.
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