‘False 9 experiment is fascinating’printed at 19:16 BST
England v Japan (19:45 BST)
Paul Robinson
Former England goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live at Wembley
It’s the scenario that is been compelled upon Thomas Tuchel. We know what an vital participant Harry Kane is for England. The quantity of video games he performs, the objectives he scores, he is the talisman and a pacesetter. But with out him it has been the query mark.
On Friday evening he tried Dominic Solanke, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, and the fascinating factor tonight is Solanke is out there and he is left him on the bench and he is gone with Phil Foden in that false 9 place.
He’s been out of shape of late and I believe getting him a job there, Tuchel’s experimenting to see how that entrance 4 play.
This false quantity 9 scenario, we have seen it earlier than from an England facet and it hasn’t actually labored with out Harry Kane.
