The good news is that England overturned a two-goal deficit team to lead 3-2. The bad news was Harry Maguire and Nick Pope.
Well, at least they entertained us. The next time we see England, they’ll be taking to the pitch for their first World Cup group match against Iran, but what are we to make of them, at this point? Well, England finally woke themselves up after their lengthy goal drought and, with the right wind behind them they can still look like a world class team, but at the end of an evening that confounded every expectation at every turn they still didn’t win, and that now makes six in a row.
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England served up their very best and their very worst in a confusing soup of a performance which suggested that they could both win the World Cup and lose all three group games without getting a point. On the one hand, they turned the game around in the space of fifteen minutes at a point when it seemed to be slipping beyond their grasp, but on the other…
Well, we regret to inform you that Harry Maguire is still doing Harry Maguire things, and that it’s starting to reach the point at which he may have to be withdrawn from this team for his own good, if nothing else. His double-whammy of giving the ball away to Jamal Musiala under absolutely no pressure whatsoever and then approaching a stepover from Musiala in much the same way that a dog might try to operate a mobile phone six minutes into the second half was straight from the playbook that has seen him go from man to meme over the last couple of years.
But this level of self-infliction isn’t limited to Maguire alone. Germany’s best chance of the first half came when John Stones played a backpass to Nick Pope which almost caught the England goalkeeper out. And otherwise, the most notable moment of a plodding first 45 came when Stones twanged his hamstring under no challenge whatsoever, which resulted in him having to be withdrawn.
And in the closing minutes of the game, with the mood around Wembley having been lifted from the first rumblings of BOOOOOOOO to WE’RE GOING TO PISS THIS TINPOT WORLD CUP, Pope’s mangling of what should have been a routine save from a Serge Gnabry shot handed Kai Havertz a second goal and Germany a draw. It was the latest in a stream of needless individual mistakes from players who do know better, at the end of an evening that felt like it taught us nothing at all and…
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