Gareth Southgate’s misfiring England lose control in haunting defeat | Barney Ronay

Tactically undercooked and muddled at the back, England’s failure felt like a visitation from the ghost behind the door

So much for the sunlit uplands. Friday night in Prague: this was supposed to be a romp past the post for Gareth Southgate’s England 2.0, a breasting of the tape en route to the clear blue skies of next summer’s European championship. In the build-up the key questions had been about how exactly England would go about brushing past the Czech Republic; how they might finesse the moment.

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