Nor with Gareth Southgate nor with Thomas Tuchel England Play football well and, after the sad victory by the minimum against Andorra (1-0), he disappointed on Tuesday and fell against Senegal (1-3) In the first defeat of its history with an African selection.
The 'Three Lions', who already have four games with Tuchel on the bench, fell back into gray and boring football that is already their sign of identity and could not with a more vivid Senegal and the one that the VAR helped with a controversial goal annulled to Jude Bellingham In the last minutes.
England was seen lack of desire and interest in the party, perhaps because there was nothing at stake or perhaps because of the physical fatigue he already mentioned Harry Kane After the duel with Andorra when he dropped that these meetings were not a good idea after the season ended.
The Bayern Munich striker was one of those who did not rotate and repeated ownership. And goal also repeated. At seven minutes, Kane pushed the network a bad clearance of Mendy and added a new goal with the English shirt. It already has 73.
If Anthony Gordon had not erred an occasion that he had on a empty door, the result would probably have been different, but the end of the Newcastle United forgave and Ismaila Sarr, in the 40th minute, took the colors to Kyle Walker.
The City's side, rejected by Milan, fell asleep thinking that a ball was left out, Nico Jackson saved it on the line and enabled Sarr, who tied the encounter. More than deserved for what was being seen in the field, as deserved, it would have been 1-2 before the break if Dean Henderson, the goalkeeper who gave the England Cup to Crystal Palace, would not have been excellent under the sticks.
But the goalkeeper cannot save everything and when Senegal sent a long ball that did not follow Lewis-Skelly or Colwill, Habib Diarra found the hole to put Senegal ahead.
Luckily for the English there were enough Senegals in the stands to be heard more to them to celebrate than their fans to boo.
Monotony of always
The blush of defeat encouraged England to look for the tie and almost arrived in good stops from Mendy to Morgan Gibbs-White and Saka, but the attempt was deflated soon and England fell into the usual monotony, condemning an inconsequential defeat in sports, but terrible in the mental.
The VAR, in addition, annulled a goal to Bellingham in the last minutes for a hand in Colwill's play and in 95 Cheikh Sabaly sentenced the Contra, confirming England's first defeat against an African team since 1986.
After six months with Tuchel, there is no improvement regarding what is seen with Southgate. Thinking that this English team can win the next year's World Cup is, apparently in recent games, little more than a utopia. At the moment, its goal is to qualify.
