The speed of Sterling and Rashford had seemed the default option in support of Kane, but can Southgate afford to leave the skills of Foden and Grealish on the substitutes’ bench?
Welcome to the month of living dangerously. At the end of the strangest, most fractured build-up to any modern tournament England’s footballers have at least avoided one familiar pitfall.
Too often this has been a tale of boredom and stale systems, of hotel-emptiness and simply waiting for things to start.
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