England’s dour draw with Ghana will quickly be forgotten if they can produce the swashbuckling attacking football they displayed against Croatia in last week’s World Cup group opener.
There were enough worrying signs in that stalemate in Boston, however, to give Thomas Tuchel and his team cause to work overtime back at their training base in Kansas City, Missouri.
France have already hit top gear, the Netherlands can’t stop scoring while Lionel Messi continues to defy Father Time. England cannot afford for the Ghana clash to be anything other than an aberration. Otherwise, another early exit on the world stage could be upon us.
Saturday’s Panama clash is a chance to reset and iron out the most pertinent deficiencies.
Offer Kane some support from wide
