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Publication date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 10:02 AM
England’s nine-game winning streak at home crashed into Denmark. Who impressed and who was Harry Maguire?
JORDAN PICKFORD
Oh no. It was inevitable at some point that Everton Pickford would show up for England. The punishment was severe – if anything, Delaney fouled Walker, but Pickford still had nothing to do and only managed to confuse and crowd his own defender. Based purely on England’s form, Pickford could still easily overcome that mistake. Pickford doesn’t have that luxury, and even his famous layout disappointed him when he made a spectacular attempt at an injury-time free throw to The Mixer.
REECE JAMES
The most complete right-back in England? Perhaps. England’s best player on a very difficult night? Undoubtedly. The right-bonding game with clubmate Mason Mount was a big bright spot in the first half hour. He tends to get into dangerous positions at the right time rather than just waiting there like TAA so often does in the England jersey. Obviously, it all went to shit, but that wasn’t James (or Mount’s) fault either. He initially moved to left back in the post-layoff shakeup, but switched back to Kyle Walker and continued to impress. Because we can’t have nice things, he managed to get sent off after the final whistle for taunting the referee. Reason.
AINSLEY MAITLAND-NILES
He was serving the ‘right back doing useful work on the left’ with absolute adequacy before he was the unfortunate sacrificed on the altar of Maguire’s incompetence.
KYLE WALKER
Discouraged by his goalkeeper and fouled by his opponent before apparently conceding a penalty. He continued to sport a notable point of weakness after becoming the fourth right-back to play as a left-back for England in the last week. The year of our lord 2020 remains completely and decidedly out of place.
CONOR COADY
It came out with an early wobble in a way that Maguire spectacularly didn’t. Excellent intervention to deny Dolberg from the center of Poulsen. He coped admirably with the shift to a four-man lineup where he never, never plays. Perhaps he was unlucky enough not to win a late penalty on the newly discovered role as an attacking threat. His rise to ‘senior professional’ status has been as rapid as Maguire’s demotion.
HARRY MAGUIRE
F *** ing HELL. That was bad. Really bad. Like all bad times. How to make us miss Eric Dier. Maybe Harry’s next job could be cyber? Booked early for useless and reckless boarding. He got injured trying to recover from a clumsy first touch. Sent trying to recover from an even clumsier first touch. All of these things happened in completely harmless areas of the field and within the first 34 minutes. It is becoming a concern. He was never a 75 million pound defender, but he was pretty good. He seems like a man in desperate need of a vacation, but … ah, you’re ahead of me, insert your own cruel joke here.
one yellow card on the left wing, one in the center circle: total football with Harry Maguire
– Andrew Thomas (@andi_thomas) October 14, 2020
RICE DECLAN
Great pass for Mount to create an opportunity in the first half that Kane should have done a lot more with. He was showing encouraging momentum before being forced to take on a firefighting role that may suit him better, but he did less to advance his cause more generally.
KALVIN PHILLIPS
Like Rice, an encouragingly progressive performance was hampered by the red card, although picking both of them in a home game against Denmark isn’t really ideal for a team ranked fourth in the world. You did well to track Dolberg’s run and deflect the shot behind Eriksen’s ‘Tottenham corner’ in the Dane’s former home, that sounds oddly incongruous somehow, doesn’t it? – and has still done very little wrong in his fledgling career in England.
HARRY KANE
Definitely the best Harry on the pitch, but now in his longest goal drought in England since the World Cup final and he rarely seemed to end that before or after his namesake red card. It’s hardly on a list of worries for England, all things considered, but it’s telling that the most creative role he enjoyed so much in an England jersey has become his Tottenham role, while for England he suddenly seems a bit lost. and peripheral. He has done very, very little in two international breaks on either side of a wonderful club form.
MOUNT MASON
Excellent before the red card, but significantly less involved afterwards. As with so many others, it’s not really your fault. He forced a good save from Schmeichel with a header from a corner and looks comfortable, at home and law in international soccer.
MARCUS RASHFORD
MBE. Future prime minister. England’s second-youngest player to reach 40 caps, pushing Michael Owen to third place. You’ve been busy, so you can apologize for this rather quiet and restrained evening.
TYRONE MINGS (in Maitland-Niles, 36)
Coady and Mings as a central defensive duo did not inspire confidence. It was actually okay, and not just because Denmark made a very early and obvious decision to keep what they had.
DOMINIC CALVERT-LEWIN (in charge of Rashford, 73)
A beautiful moment to shoulder the ball for Kane to win a free throw. He’s already a big winner for the week and nothing really changed that tonight.
JADON SANCHO (in the mountains, 73)
Arguably, it could have been entered 15 minutes earlier to try and shake up the game and make something happen, but then he did a lot of bad things once he got involved, so maybe not.
JORDAN HENDERSON (to Rice, 76)
He used all his nous and experience to get hired just for talking to the referee. Watch and learn, Sweary Reece. Watch and learn.
Dave tickner
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