Hospital near the English, Kane does not even play against Belgium!

At the weekend, the English were defeated by Brazil 0-1 at Wembley, and the only goal was scored by the young and talented Brazilian player Endrick, whom we will see in Real Madrid next summer. Before the new extremely strong friendly match at the same stadium with Belgium on Tuesday, the English have a real hospital present.

Several players are injured and will miss this match. Harry Kane will not be on the field again, who missed the match against Brazil due to the injury he suffered while wearing the Bayern jersey. The English staffing situation was further aggravated by the injuries suffered by Walker, Maguire, and Johnstone.

The English have another strong check

Given that their squad is reduced due to injuries, the English have invited two new players for the match against Belgium. Gary Southgate invited James Trafford from Burnley and Rico Lewis from Manchester City for a new friendly match at Wembley. Trafford is on the English coach’s list for the first time, while Lewis made his debut last year in a match against North Macedonia. Along with France, the English are given the best chance to win the Euro title, which would be their first in history.

Unlike some other national teams, the English team chose very strong opponents, Brazil and Belgium, for friendly matches during March. As for the match with Brazil, there were many holes in the English defense, as well as the fact that their attack is very dull when there is no Harry Kane on the field, who will not be there in the second friendly match either. Given that the English have high ambitions at the upcoming Euro, it seems that the decision to choose strong rivals for friendly matches is quite logical.

It’s the best way to see what your vulnerable points are, what your Achilles’ heel is, and to try to minimize those mistakes until the start of the Euros. In the match against Brazil, Southgate saw what was wrong with the English, and against the South American national team, which has not been in the best shape lately, Southgate saw a lot of black holes.

The English saw a new Brazilian talent

In the first half, England failed to create a single serious opportunity, which almost certainly has something to do with the fact that Harry Kane did not play in this match. In this match, the English played in the style of the teams coached by Pep Guardiola. They had more possession of the ball, there were a lot of short passes, they were looking for space, but it was very difficult to find. The English mostly sent kicks outside 16 meters and the only real opportunity was Ollie Watkins who sent the ball over the crossbar from ten meters.

Brazil, on the other hand, played for the first time under the baton of Dorival Junior and ended the series of bad results. In the previous year, this national team lost more matches than it won, which really rarely happened in the past. Against the English, Brazil decided to wait for its chance from the counter attack and it turned out to be a good tactic against the English defense. They created many more serious chances and could have achieved a more convincing victory.

Harry Maguire excelled again in a negative sense, who made a disastrous mistake in the first half, but Rafinha failed to take advantage of it. In the second half, the English managed to stabilize defensively, but were equally harmless in attack as in the first part of the game. Endrick made sure that the match did not end without goals, whom the European audience had the opportunity to see in action for the first time, although he did not show too much.

However, he scored the winning goal and missed another opportunity in the last seconds of the match. England suffered their first defeat since the World Cup which seems to have come at the right time. Brazil ended a streak of four matches without a win.

Southgate, despite the defeat, was satisfied with this game and saw a lot of positive things, but also a lot of things that didn’t work.

“There were lots of very good performances,” he said.

“It was a top-level game, we controlled long parts of it and had as many attempts on goal as them. “It’s a classic game against a South American team. In a [competitive game] there might have been more cards given. “We knew to expect that and we played from the back really well. I’m not unhappy with a lot about the performance. “

In the end it’s that ruthless moment that decides the game, but there were some important individual performances for us. “Anthony [Gordon] was excellent, in both sides of his game. Ben Chilwell was very good, he was aggressive in his defending and he gave us width. We have to manage him carefully because he’s been out for a while.”