Not for the first time, as he is all too grimly aware, an England defeat hinged on a missed penalty by their usually so reliable captain. When Harry Kane slipped at the crucial moment, nudging the ball with his standing foot by accident, time slowed just for a few seconds, and the Bayern Munich man’s spot-kick bounced back off the bar.
England errors punished
Thomas Tuchel told his England team and the country earlier this week to “embrace the chaos”, but that is not such a tempting proposition now that England have done just that and still lost.
In an open match, England…
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