Liverpool's Curtis Jones gives the incoming Thomas Tuchel a different midfield option - with better feet, greater variation and control
Rice offers England dependable grunt but not enough risk Jones made his debut against Greece and followed that up with a first match in white at Wembley. It’s a small sample but impressive nonetheless, especially in Athens,’s clock, offering a sense of dynamic control, the absence of which has bedevilled the national team down the years.built his midfield around big lungs and willing legs, runners and grafters like Kalvin Phillips, Jordan Henderson and Rice.
The preference for dependable grunt over risk is the English prejudice Carsley tried to roll back with an emphasis on attack. Hefor the October visit of Greece with the inevitable consequences. That defeat, you feel, will scar him for the rest of his days should he not be called to the head coaching role again.the way.
That is not to say Rice won’t feature in Tuchel’s England, only that he might have to accept a status downgrade, no longer one of the undroppables. Mainoo, Gomes and Jones are now viable alternatives, all of whom offer better feet, greater variation and control. Spain set up like an old Premier League team with two conventional wingers either side of a centre forward, supported by three in the middle. They backed themselves in a way Southgate never could.
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