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One of Thomas Tuchel’s biggest challenges is to stop English football’s never-ending arm-wrestle with a self-loathing subconscious.
The scale of that challenge is shown by one slightly clunky statistic. If they are to win the World Cup, England will surely at some stage need to beat one of the other seven World Cup winners in a knockout game. The last time they did outside England was [checks notes, shrieks a bit] 1962.
Aliou Cisse has named a strong side, which includes seven past and present Premier League players – and probably a couple of the future as well. The front three of Ismaila Sarr, Nicolas Jackson and Iliman Ndiaye should kept England’s defence honest.
