England made a 2-0 win of the World Cup at home on Friday evening to Albania, but it was not a flawless debut for Thomas Tuchel.
Was Gareth Southgate in a knitting knitting jacket and not in a dark coat in a knitted cardigan fluctuated around the shelter, there was only 25 minutes when it looked like something changed.
Myles Lewis Skelly’s opening goal in the 20th minute triggered a continuing pressure magic until the half-time break. England had difficulty grouping in the second 45 minutes, and Albania offered better openings before Harry Kane’s goal sealed the victory. Like Tuchel admitted after the game: “We can do it better. We have to do better.”
How the game unfolds
Tuchel wanted energy. He also called for “identity, clarity, rhythm, repetition of patterns, freedom, expression and hunger” – everything that, as he emphasized, was missing.
Bellingham brought all of these and more qualities. After a incomplete home win against a page that was carved 65th place in the world in 65th place, but the raging, record-breaking record star did his best to reach Tuchel’s good team at an early stage.
It was Bellingham’s Defense Shattering Pass for Lewis Skelly, which interrupted the deadlock of a world championship qualator that started under Southgate’s regime. In view of a rigid low, England No. 10 pirouetted by Myrto Uzuni and took five black shirts with a ball for the Arsenal Youngster out of the game.
Thomas Strakosha’s subsequent leg refused to Bellingham’s header from the point-blank range and took a desperate default of Berat Djimsiti to block Kanes’s efforts on the follow-up examination.
Dan Burn was denied his own debut goal by the latte. Due to the introduction of the 6’7 interior defender at Corner Kicks, England’s characteristic love train stuck a double-decker bus, but they could not count the air advantage.
Bellingham – and thus the rest of the English team – began the second half. Albania had a quall of promising openings, which, due to a combination of poor decision -making and defensive interventions, did not reflect the number of shot in the last section, most of which were made by the quietly impressive Ezri Konsa.
Kane banished the gently boiling riots before she could cook with a super strike in the 78th minute. England’s top goal scorer from Arlind Ajeti waited with alarming ease and was waiting for a long time until a gap opened and filled the ball between the narrow Avenue of Open Air to find the lower corner.
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When Lewis Skelly rang his phone the day before Tuchel’s squad announcement, he put his “good voice”, stood and answered. “We have their food, it is outside,” said a delivery driver over the line. “It was over for my mother,” recalled the teenager. The call finally came and there were no false alarms in a debut.
Arsenal’s academy’s graduate had already seen a lot of the ball, wrote it forward and hit the feet of his teammates before closing it between Thomas Strakosha’s legs.
Lewis-Skelly was visibly overwhelmed by the emotions of his performance and was the youngest player who ever scored a debut goal for the national senior team and rubbed his head in disbelief after his teammates decided. This innocent appreciation collides strongly with the distorted perception that the 18-year-old quickly followed.
Perhaps his mockery about Erling was not in the best taste and it has already been shown two red cards, but there is hardly any scorching toxicity that submits to this teenager with a baby face among so many comments. This is an intelligent, well -spoken young man, whose astonishing climb should be praised at every opportunity rather than illuminated.
Versatility can be a blessing and a curse. The question of Phil Foden’s best position has plagued his entire senior career. While Pep Guardiola freely changed the natural playmaker in the last third – often successful – Foden has routinely fought to repeat his club form in an international setup without the same tactical strict as Manchester City.
Foden has routinely impressed in a left -wing role while he is draped in Sky Blue. From this position he only achieved a hat trick against Brentford last season. But when the 24-year-old stayed in the same position during the euro, he turned around the field like a broken Dodem.
In the absence of the injured Bukayo Saka on Friday, Foden did his best to resist wandering infield (with mixed success) and to smile on the touch. Nevertheless, he only made two touches in the penalty area and leafed into a performance and out, which Saka was very worried about his place in the team.
Tuchel wanted “more effect” from his wings and grouped Marcus Rashford and Foden, who also had to “dribble more and fewer passes”.
With Bellingham in such a fine shape through the middle – theoretically foder’s preferred position – is quite unclear as it has been, as it was before.
The six-time Premier League champion decided on a bad season to start a podcast with the name You will never beat Kyle Walker. Since an astonishing number of players demonstrated in the first six months of the season, this is simply no longer the case. Walker’s decision to borrow the city in January was reportedly the result of the realization that he could “no longer reduce it”.
So far, Walker has enjoyed fewer moments of existential fear at AC Milan and looked five years younger when he was in the Down pace of international football. The 34-year-old even found energy to run over the wing player in front of him.
These Bursts offered a feeling of liveliness that England’s best magic in the game – it was Walkers Ball back from the Byline, which takes up the chance in the first half for Bellingham and Kane.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, the injured Liverpool foreign defender, from whom he was expected to have not marauded Walkers in this style for years. Alexander-Arnold brings his own qualities by using the Infield and his unsurpassed past. However, if Tuchel opens up for the trial couser, this can influence the right wing player -Sland -Select, whereby his inclusion indicates more direct runners than Phil Foden.
When Tuchel was asked who would be his English captain, he pushed out an air shoe. “It is Harry,” he said, steaming his contempt with a waves of anger, as if someone had obviously asked him something so blindly that it was almost insulting.
Kane had been split off at the end of the last 12 months when he played in an England shirt. The typically calming striker aimed at his critics before the game on Friday and compared his normalized brilliance to that of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and insisted that he was “taken for granted”.
Tuchel would have deeply estimated Kane’s goal of doubleing England’s lead and guaranteeing a first victory on Friday.